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Hypericum patulum Thunberg. (Hypericaceae . ) 39644. 
Seeds from Darjeeling, India. Presented by Mr. G. H. Cave v 
Curator Lloyd Botanic Garden. "A dwarf shrub in England, 
but said to grow as much as six feet high in Japan and* the 
Himalaya. Leaves one and one-half inches long, ovate, 
deep green above, glaucous beneath. Flowers two inches 
across, borne in a cyme at the end of the shoot; petals 
bright golden yellow, overlapping, roundish; sepals broad- 
ly ovate, one-third inch long. Stamens in five bundles. 
Introduced to Kew from Japan by Oldham in 1862; a native 
also of China and the Himalaya. It is not absolutely 
hardy in England (at Kew) and almost always has its stems 
cut back to the ground-level during the winter. These 
spring up again the following season from one to two feet 
high, and flower from July to October. After a few years 
the ; shoots are apt to become more and more weakly and it 
becomes . necessary to renew the stock from cuttings'. The 
only, species with which it can be confounded are : H. hooh- 
erianum, from which it differs in the branchlets being 
two-edged, especially just beneath the flowers; H. lysi- 
machioides, which has narrow, linear-lanceolate sepals; and 
H. uralum, with flowers half the size." (W. J. Bean, Trees 
and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. 639. ) 
Mangifera indica L. ( Anacardiaceae . ) 39485. Seeds of a 
mango from Ceylon. Presented by Mr. C. K. Moser, American 
Consul, Harbin, Manchuria. "A few months before I left 
Ceylon a Sinhalese friend sent me a few mangos which he 
called 'coconut mangos', which he said were from Jaffna 
and very rare. They were about as large as a coconut, and 
similar in shape, the skin and flesh a deep, rich yellow, 
except upon the cheeks, where burned a blush as glorious 
as any that ever dyed a peach. They were the most deli- 
cious fruits my wife and I ever tasted in all our lives. 
We never saw either in India or Ceylon any others like 
them, and when I wrote to Jaffna I was informed they did 
not grow there, but that they were evidently a rare variety 
which seldom fruited in Ceylon and then only in certain 
localities. Unfortunately I was too busy to investigate 
then and I have forgotten the name which Dr. Brown of 
Jaffna gave for them. It is certainly not commonly known 
in the middle East, and It certainly is a fruit for a 
king. It has neither fibrous flesh nor petroleum flavor; 
the fruits from which these seeds came were perfect." 
(Moser. ) 
Myriccuria germanica Desv . (Tamaricaceae . ) 39630. Seeds 
from Petrograd, Russia. Presented by the Director, Im- 
perial Botanic Garden. "A deciduous shrub, six to eight 
feet high, glaucous grey, and of rather gaunt habit. 
