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natural habitat. Fruit with an abundance of slightly 
acidulous sweet juicy pulp, with a flavor somewhat like 
that of a pineapple. Recommended for planting in southern 
California in the foot-hills near the coast." (W. E. 
Saf ford. ) 
Annona -purpurea Mog. & Sesse. (Annonaceae . ) 39358. 
Seeds of a soncoya from San Jose, Costa Rica, presented by 
the Costa Rlcan National Museum. "This species has large 
aromatic fruit, velvety on the outside with raised hooked 
tubercles, yellow aromatic pulp, which is edible when 
ripe, but said to be unwholesome if eaten to excess. A 
medium-sized forest tree ranging from Mexico to Panama 
and Venezuela." (W. E. Saf ford.) 
Atalantia monophylla DC. (Rutaceae.) 39330. Seeds from 
the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. "A large shrub or 
small tree, native to India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, and 
Indo-China, usually spiny; leaves glabrous, or sometimes 
pubescent, 1 to 3 inches long; petioles short, slightly or 
not at all winged; flowers borne in axillary panicles; 
calyx irregularly lobed, split to the base on one side, 
petals usually four, stamens eight, the filaments connate 
and forming a completely closed tube; ovary 3-5 celled; 
fruit from one-half to three-fourths inch in diameter, with 
a skin like a lime, globose, with several cells (generally 
4), each usually containing one seed and filled with pulp- 
vesicles, making the fruit much like a miniature orange. 
This tree, still little known outside of India and Ceylon, 
is the type of the genus Atalantia, and one of the promis- 
ing species for trial as a stock on which to graft other 
citrus fruits, and also for use in breeding new types of 
citrus fruits. The fruits yield an oil which in India is 
considered a valuable application in chronic rheumatism." 
(W. T. Swingle, in Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horti- 
culture . ) 
Diospyros nigricans Wallich. (Ebenaceae.) 39324. Seeds 
from Allahabad, India. Presented by Mr. William Bembower, 
Ewing Christian College. "A tree 50 feet high, with many 
lax cinereous, glabescent branches; young shoots and peti- 
oles, minutely puberulous. Leaves oval-oblong, much acumi- 
nate at apex, somewhat narrowed at base, alternate, turn- 
ing black when dry, firmly membraneous, glabrous except on 
midrib which is puberulous and depressed on the upper sur- 
face; lateral veins and net-veins delicate, not conspicu- 
ous above; 3-5 inches long by 1-lf inches wide; petioles 
one- tenth to one-seventh inch long. Male flowers in few 
(3-6) -flowered short axillary puberulous cymes, one-fourth 
to one-third inch long; bracts small, Imbricated. Calyx 
