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Cassia eremophila A. Cunningham. (Caesalplnia'ceae . ) 
44071. Plants from Wellington Point near Brisbane, 
Queensland, Australia. Presented by Mr. James Pink. 
"A very handsome flowering shrub." (Pink.) A woody 
plant, found in Australia, in all the colonies except 
Tasmania. The leaves are composed of two pairs of 
very narrow leaflets, and the pods are very smooth. 
In Australia both the pods and the leaves of this 
plant are eaten by stock. (Adapted from Maiden, Use- 
ful Native Plants of Australia, p. 121, and from Vo- 
gel, Synopsis Generis Casslae, p. 47 as Cassia nemophila.) 
Ca8tilleja indivisa Engelm. (Scrophularlaceae . ) 43985. 
Plants grown at the Plant Introduction Field Station, 
Chico, California, from seed collected by Dr. David 
Griffiths, of this Bureau, at Lyford, Texas, May 2, 
1915. "One of the most showy of the winter annuals 
of southern Texas. The seedlings come up very abun- 
dantly upon the sandy coastal plain In autumn, devel- 
oping slowly during the winter but rapidly In early 
spring, and dominating the color of acres of the land- 
scape in late March and early April. Here its seeds 
are matured in late April and early May. There are 
few native plants more showy than this one. This 
whole group of painted cups, however, are considered 
somewhat difficult to grow, and are consequently little 
handled in the trade in this country, although com- 
monly grown in England. Our efforts have met with 
success and failure in their handling. Recent trials 
indicate that the habits of the plant, as depicted 
above, should stand winter handling, and that they 
can be grown successfully as winter annuals in regions 
having mild winters with sufficient moisture for seed 
germination in autumn. It requires a comparatively 
low temperature for their development, experience at 
Chico, California, showing that the sudden transition 
from winter to summer, such as we have, dwarfs the 
plant before maturity, so that they produce but few 
of the colored bracts which are so attractive In all 
of the painted cups or Indian paint brushes." (Grif- 
fiths.) 
Chamaedorea sp. (Phoenicaceae. ) 44059. Seeds of 
Pacaya palm from Coban, Guatemala. Collected by Mr. 
Wilson Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer. "Nearly every 
garden in Coban contains a number of these small, at- 
tractive palms, planted not so much for ornament as 
for the edible inflorescences which they produce. In 
