HIERN, S. P. I. No. 49608.)

Regarded by the white people of the Zambezi River region as their best fruit, these "plums," as they are often called, merit wide trial. The sweet spicy flavor is very pleasant, and to those who have feasted on them the taste appeals as does that of few other fruits. (Photographed, slightly reduced, by Dr. H. L. Shantz, Kafue, Northern Rhodesia, December 3, 1919; P36826 FS.)

No. 49608.)

These trees are always small, usually not more than 6 to 10 feet tall, and their delicious fruits are borne profusely. The fruits are green, changing to a light brown when ripe, and are about the size of a large plum. When picked green they ripen rapidly and are often good to eat on the first or second day after being gathered. (Photographed by Dr. H. L. Shantz, Kafue, Northern Rhodesia, December 2, 1919; P36818 FS.)

"(No. 341. Kafue. December 7, 1919.) An attractive plant with a trumpet-shaped flower. This would make a fine garden flower." 49611. TROCHOMERIA GARCINI (L.) Benth. and Hook. Cucurbitaceæ. (Zehneria garcini Sond.)

"(No. 350. Kafue, December 7, 1919.)"

An annual vine, native to Africa and India, with cordate, palmately 5-lobed leaves and small greenish flowers followed by 2-seeded fruits the size of a cherry. (Adapted from Harvey, Flora Capensis, vol. 2,

p. 487.)

49612. PRINTZIA sp. Asteraceæ.

"(No. 355. Kafue. December 7, 1919.) A low perennial resembling Centaurea. May be valuable as a border plant."

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From Darjiling, Bengal, India. Seeds presented by G. H. Cave, curator, Lloyd Botanic Garden. Received March 12, 1920.

49613. AIRA sp. Poaceæ.

Grass.

Received as Deyeuxia fiiformis; identified at the Grass Herbarium. 49614. ALANGIUM ALPINUM (C. B. Clarke) Smith and Cave. Cornaceæ. A deciduous tree, approaching 39 feet in height, with ascending branches and coriaceous leaves, glabrous above and pilose veined beneath. The lax, axillary, 3-flowered inflorescences with almost glabrous stamens are followed by black fruits, which are at first elongate turbinate, afterwards compressed ellipsoid. Native to the eastern Himalayas at altitudes of 5,000 to 9,000 feet. (Adapted from Records of the Botanical Survey of India, vol. 6, p. 96.)

49615. ANEMONE VITIFOLIA Buch.-Ham. Ranunculaceæ.

One of the commonest and most ornamental plants in Nepal, where it grows in all the forests of the great valley and the surrounding mountains, delighting in the most shady, retired, and moist situations in the vicinity of rills and torrents. It is also found in Kumaon and in Gossam Than in the Himalayas. The erect, nearly simple stem, clothed with oppressed hairs, is 1 to 3 feet high. The cordate radical leaves are long stalked, lobed, and coarsely serrated, much veined and somewhat wrinkled, glabrous above, downy and paler beneath. The involucre consists of two leaves like the radical leaves but smaller in size, inclosing two smaller leaves, from within which arise the three or four peduncles each bearing a single showy flower, drooping in the bud, afterwards erect. The white sepals are obovate and concave. (Adapted from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pl. 3376.)

For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 47639.

49616. BERBERIS ANGULOSA Wall. Berberidaceæ.

Barberry.

A rare ornamental shrub, 4 feet high and upwards, growing at elevations of 11,000 to 13,000 feet in Nepal, Kumaon, and Sikkim. In autumn it forms a striking object from the rich golden yellow and red coloring of the foliage. The fruit is edible, being less acid than that of the common

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species of Europe and Asia. The erect, puberulent branches are stout, angled, and grooved, with slender, three to five branched spines. The deciduous fascicled leaves, 1 to 1 inches long are oblanceolate, entire or with a few spinous teeth on the thickened margin, thinly coriaceous, opaque above, shining beneath. The pale golden yellow flowers are pendent on solitary or fascicled peduncles. The scarlet, globosely obovoid berry is nearly an inch long. (Adapted from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pl. 7071.)

For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 40143. 49617. BERBERIS CONCINNA Hook. f. Berberidaceæ.

Barberry.

A very beautiful and distinct species allied to Berberis sibirica, but readily distinguished by the long tripartite spines, slender pedicels, and glaucous leaves. The plant, native to the Sikkim Himalayas at elevations of 12,000 to 13,000 feet, forms a small low bush, 1 to 3 feet high, with spreading, almost prostrate branches thickly covered with small deepgreen leaves, polished above, snowy white and glaucous below; these colors, together with the large scarlet berries and red branchlets give the shrub a singularly pretty appearance when in fruit (Adapted from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pl. 4744.)

For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 40145. 49618. BERBERIS HOOKERI Lem. Berberidacea.

(B. wallichiana Hook., not DC.)

Barberry.

An upright-growing ornamental shrub, from 6 to 10 feet high, from near the summit of Mount Sheopur, Nepal. The long branches bear slender, rigid, deeply tripartite spines nearly an inch long. The beautiful spreading fascicled leaves resemble those of Christmas holly. From the center of these fascicles spring the drooping flower clusters. The outer 3 of the 9 to 12 spreading concave yellow sepals are tinged with red. The bright but rather pale yellow petals are concave and smaller than the sepals. (Adapted from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pl. 4656.)

For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 44381. 49619. BERBERIS UMBELLATA Wall. Berberidaceæ.

Barberry.

A hardy subevergreen ornamental shrub, about 3 feet high, with umbellike racemes of yellow flowers produced abundantly in June. It is readily increased either by seeds or by layering. It is easily known by its narrow, spineless leaves, slightly glaucous beneath when fresh, and becoming more so when dry. Native to the Himalayas. (Adapted from Edwards's Botanical Register, vol. 30, pl. 44.)

For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 33023.

49620. BETULA UTILIS D. Don. Betulaceæ.

(B. bhojpattra Wall.)

Birch.

A moderate-sized deciduous tree, native to the temperate Himalayas from Kashmir to Sikkim and Bhutan, 40 to 60 feet high, or a shrub at high altitudes. The smooth, shining, reddish white or white bark peels off in broad horizontal rolls. In these layers the lenticels appear as pink patches. The wood is white with a pinkish tinge, tough, even grained, and moderately hard. A decoction of the bark is used as a wash for poisoned wounds. (Adapted from Kirtikar, Indian Medicinal Plants, vol. 2, p. 1213.)

For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 47647.

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49621. BROMUS sp. Poaceæ.

Grass.

Grass.

Received as Avena aspera; identified at the Grass Herbarium.

Received as Deyeuxia seratescens; sample identified at the Grass Herbarium.

49623. CASSIOPE FASTIGIATA (Wall.) D. Don. Ericaces.

A beautiful free-flowering alpine shrub, about 9 inches high, one of the choicest from the northwestern Himalayas. These shrubs are fairly abundant at elevations of 12,000 to 13,000 feet in shady situations and in moist, peaty, well-drained soil. The solitary white bell-shaped flowers have the corolla segments recurved, showing the pink center and the curious awned stamens, like those of the arbutus. The tiny leaves, imbricated in four rows which give the stem a four-sided appearance, have white, membranous, ciliated margins. (Adapted from Gardeners' Chronicle, 3d ser., vol. 47, p. 379.)

49624. CATHCARTIA VILLOSA Hook. f. Papaveraceæ.

A hardy annual or biennial found in the Sikkim Himalayas. The abundance of long, shaggy, fulvous hairs and the bright-yellow glabrous flowers give it a handsome appearance. The cordate radical leaves are long petioled and palmately five lobed; the stem leaves are sessile, and the uppermost are pinnatifid. The large nodding flowers have golden anthers and a green fleshy stigma. (Adapted from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pl. 4596.)

49625. CAUTLEYA LUTEA Royle. Zinziberaceæ.

(Roscoea elatior Smith.)

A plant common in the eastern Himalayas at altitudes of 5,000 to 8,000 feet, where it develops erect tufted stems, 8 to 10 inches long, with pale or reddish brown lower surfaces. The golden yellow flowers are borne in spikes 4 to 8 inches high. (Adapted from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pl. 6991.)

For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 47656. 49626. CORYLUS FEROX Wall. Betulaceæ.

Hazel.

A Chinese tree 20 feet in height, with light, compact, pale wood. The nuts are small and precisely like the common hazelnut in taste. The tawny yellow shell is exceedingly hard and thick. The involucre is made up of beautiful greenish gray laciniate bracts. (Adapted from Wallich, Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, vol. 1, p. 77.)

49627, COTONEASTER ACUMINATA Lindl. Malaceæ.

An ornamental shrub native to the Himalayas, with erect branches, ovate-lanceolate leaves 1 inches long, and white or pinkish flowers, followed by orange-red globosely obovoid fruits. (Adapted from Revue Horticole, vol. 61, p. 348.)

For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 47663.

49628. CYPERUS sp. Cyperaceæ.

Sedge.

Received as Stipa orthoraphium; identified at the Grass Herbarium. 2212-23

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