1885 
diospyros KAKI (Diospyraceae ) , 56762. Kaki. From China. Scions 
sent in by K. M. Gordon, South Shantung Industrial and Agricultural 
School of the American Presbyterian Mission (North), at the request of 
C. A. Reed, Bureau of Plant Industry. "(No. 3.) 'Honey persimmon. 1 From 
Nan Tui Shou, 110 li (about 35 miles) southeast of Tsinanfu, Shantung. 
The skin slips off the small red fruits when they are ripe; they are 
very sweet." (Gordon.) 
EREMOCITRUS GLAUCA (Rutaceae) , 56700. Australian desert kumquat. From 
Dundas, New South Wales. Seeds presented by Herbert J. Rumsey. "This 
is one of the most interesting of all citrus fruits and one which, 
curiously enough, has never yet received adequate attention from bota- 
nists or horticulturists. It was first mentioned by Leichardt, the 
German explorer, to whom we owe much of our knowledge concerning the 
interior of the deserts of northeastern Australia. It is a shrub or 
small tree from 12 to 15 feet high, with a trunk 2 to 6 inches in dia- 
meter. It has small but thick, leathery leaves of gray-green, and one is 
struck by the scantiness of the foliage. The flowers are small and the 
fruits about half an inch in diameter. An agreeable beverage is made 
from the acid juice and a fair preserve may be made out of the fruit. 
The peel has the sweetish flavor of the kumquat. It is known in Aus- 
tralia as the native lemon. The plant was described botanically in a 
footnote to Lieut. Col. Thomas Livingston Mitchell's 'Journal of an Ex- 
pedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia in Search of a Route 
from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria.' This plant was discovered on 
October 17, 1846, not far from Lieut. Col. Mitchell's camp, near the junc- 
ture of the Maranoa and Merevale Rivers, in the southern limit of Queens- 
land, Latitude 26° S. Decidedly cold weather was encountered near this 
point, in some cases the ice being so thick that it had to be broken in 
the morning before the horses could drink. It seems quite probable from 
this that the plant grows in a region where the temperature occasionally 
falls to 10° F. and in rare cases nearly to zero. It is the hardiest 
of all evergreen citrus fruits and is very promising for use in breed- 
ing new and hardy types." (W. T. Swingle.) 
exocarpus cupressiformis (Santalaceae ) , 56568. From Hobart, Tas- 
mania. Seeds presented by L. A. Evans, Secretary of Agriculture, 
Agricultural and Stock Department. Usually a tree about 20 feet high, 
with very numerous green, rigid, wiry, apparently leafle ss branches; 
the leaves are reduced to minute scales. The flowers are very small, 
appearing in short spikes ; usually only one of these flowers is ferti- 
lized, and the small roundish nut is borne on a red succulent stem 
which is eaten by the natives. The close-grained, handsome wood is 
used for cabinet work and for tool handles. Native throughout Aus- 
tralia. (Adapted from Maiden, Useful Native Plants of Australia, p. 30, 
