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rubus sp. (Rosaceae), 57228. Raapberry. From Naini Tal, United 
Provinces, India. Seeds presented by Rev. N. L. Rockey. "This is our 
most common wild yellow raspberry and grows here in great profusion. 
The bush is tall, thorny, and hairy. The fruit which ripens in early 
May, is a trifle insipid in its sweetness and is full of seeds, but it 
is very tender and we enjoy it. I believe it will be valuable for 
breeding purposes. The native name is 'hissauloo. 1 " (Rockey.) 
sabinea carinalis (Fabaceae) , 57078. From Dominica, British West 
Indies. Seeds presented by Joseph Jones, curator, Botanic Gardens. 
"This tree is known locally as 'Bois Charibe,' and is one of the most 
ehowy of our native plants. It is a very fine flowering tree and I 
have seen nothing in the Tropics to surpass it as a mass of color. If 
grown on fairly good land it will not make a good show but if plant- 
ed on a dry, rocky hillside where it will be scorched by the sun for 
a period of 3 or 4. months each year, it makes a marvellous display 
of flowers i" (Jones.) 
A shrub or small tree, with featherlike leaves and large, scar- 
let flowers which are borne in clusters of three to five, appearing 
before the leaves. (Adapted from Grieebach, Flora of the British West 
Indies, p. 183. ) 
solanum magua (Solanaceae) , 57219. From Lima, Peru. Tubers pre- 
sented by the Director, Estacion Central Agronomico. "This species is 
one of the most interesting of all the tuber-bearing Solanums; it was 
believed by Darwin to be the wild form of S. tuberosum L. , the common 
potato. He first observed it while attached to H. M. S. Beagle on the 
islands of the Chonos Archipelago, off the western coast of Chile, 
'growing in great abundance, on the sandy, shelly soil near the sea- 
beach. The tallest plant was 4 feet in height. The tubers were gen- 
erally small, but I found one, of an oval shape, 2 inches in diameter: 
they resembled in every respect, and had the same smell as English 
potatoes; but when boiled they shrunk much, and were watery and in- 
sipid, without any bitter taste. They are undoubtedly here indige- 
nous; they grow as far south, according to Mr. Low, as Lat. 50°, and 
are called "aquinas" by the Indians of that part. The Chilotan Indi- 
ans have a different name for them. Professor Henslow, who has exam- 
ined the dried specimens which I brought home, says that they are the 
same as those described by Mr. Sabine from Valparaiso, but that they 
form a variety which by some botanists has been considered. specif ical- 
ly distinct. It is remarkable that the same plant should be found on 
the sterile mountains of central Chile, where a drop of rain does not 
fall for more than six months, and within the damp forests of these 
southern islands.' (Darwin, Charles, Journal, January 7, 1835.) 
"This plant was referred by Poeppig to S. tuberosum: but Georg 
