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tree is very easily propagated from suckers. The tree 
that we have in our nursery is about 12 feet high and 
about 6 feet broad. It would have been considerably 
larger than this but for the fact that some four 
years ago we headed it back to about 3§ feet from the 
ground. This tree had at least 1$ bushels of fruit 
which matured from the middle of August up to Novem- 
ber. It is most prolific, the fruits on this one tree 
running up into the thousands . " (Berckmans.) The fruit 
much resembles a dense cluster of very large red 
raspberries of the strigosus type in appearance, and 
when fully ripe has much the flavor of an over-ripe 
red raspberry. It has possibilities for jelly making. 
The numerous seeds are large, but as considerable va- 
riation has been noted in their size, selection may 
ultimately reduce them sufficiently to make the fruit 
a popular one. 
Fieus palmata x eariea (Moraceae), 45235. Fig. From 
Algiers, Algeria. Presented by Dr. L. Trabut. "Seeds 
of Fieus palmata, fertilized by Fieus eariea. Fieus palmata, 
originally from Abyssinia and Erythrea appears inter- 
esting, first, as one of the probable ancestors of 
Fieus eariea; second, the male plants are excellent cap- 
rlfigs to supply the blastophaga. The autumn figs 
{Mammoni) now have the male flowers and at this moment 
it is still possible for the blastophaga to carry 
the pollen. The female plants yield mediocre edible 
fruits. The hybrids should be interesting for desert 
regions." (Trabut.) 
Hibi8eadalphii8 giffardianus (Malvaceae), 45242. From 
Honolulu, Hawaii. Presented by Mr. Joseph F. Rock, 
Botanist, College of Hawaii. "The Hau kuahiwi is a re- 
markable tree. At first appearance one would take it 
to be the common Hau {Hibiscus tiliaeeus) , but at closer 
inspection one cannot but wonder at the most peculiar 
shape of the flowers, which are of a deep magenta, 
and the large yellow tuberculate capsules. It is a 
rather low tree with not erect but rather Inclining 
trunk of a fo£>t in diameter, with a many-branched 
round crown. It differs from the genus Hibiscus in 
its very peculiar flowers (which are curved and con- 
voluted) and mainly in the calyx, which is not per- 
sistent with the capsules, but drops, together with the 
bracts, as soon as the capsules are formed." (Rock, 
Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands, p. 299.) 
