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Book 12 Contents

Aletris 3793 Mangifera 3787 Annanas 3755 “ 3788 “ 3756 Orchid 3791 Anthurium 3786 “ 3792 Artocarpus 3760 Passiflora 3769 Brownea 3794 “ 3771 Cactus 3789 “ 3775 Calliandra 3765 Phaseolus 3795 3776 Philodendro 3798 Cedrela 3800 Piper 3767 Colocasia 3751 Plumeria 3799 “ 3784 Raphia 3773 3785 Senna 3797 Dioscorea 3757 Sicana 3772 “ 3758 Tamarindus 3790 “ 3759 Thrinax 3783 Dilichos 3796 Undetermined 3752 Erythrina 3774 “ 3753 Garcinia 3766 “ 3778 Habenaria 3754 “ 3779 Hamelia 3764 “ 3780 Inga 3761 “ 3781 Ipomoea 3763 “ 3782 Lonchocarpus 3770 Vangueria 3762 Xanthosema 3768

3851 4 in box in Wardian Case Alive July 14 Det House D.C. OK 3.23 Colocasia esculenta “Boucand Blanc” A variety of Dasheen supplied from the Tivoli Collection from which the peasants of Martinique are given material to keep up their plantation. No description furnished but can be had from Mr. Desire’ Kervegant, Jardin d’Essais Desclieux, Fort de France, Martinique. 3.10.32. 3752 H.F. Loomis Cutting in Wardian Case Alive 3.23.32 Undetermined vine from Rain Forest region slope of Mt. Pelee, Martinique. A most attractive with bright red bracts and trumpet shaped yellow flowers that rise from their bracts or clusters of pink bracts. Suggest a Begonia but I am not able to determine it with the books & time at my disposal. Might prove a very attractive vine for cultivation in slat houses or under the shade of oak trees in Florida. Martinique 3.10.32 Underdetermined. Begoniaceae ? Rain Forest slopes of Mt. Pelee on Martinique, French West Indies. 3.10.32

3753 2 plants on block on deck. Loomis & Toy Undetermined Epiphytic orchid of general appearance of 3659 Rodriquezia fls small but intense deep pink color not very conspicuous. From the rain forest of Martinique in the mountains. 3/10/32 Send to Chapman Field for determination.

Undetermined Epiphytic orchid of general appearance of a Rodriquezia. See 3659. Small but intense pink fls. Rain forest of Martinique in mountains route to St. [????]. 3.10.32.

3754 Plants on deck. Loomis & Toy Habenaria sp. Terrestrial orchid from the rain forest region of Martinique. Collected on the route between Fort de France to St. Pierre March 10.32. (in ink) Growing in full sunlight on face of a cut in the mountain side.

3755 1 plant on deck kept dry. alive 3.22 Ananas sativa “Black Antigua” variety. Said by S.H. Walter to be an excellent very sweet tender fleshed variety for home use. Not a shipping [????]. Same as 2729. From same patch in St. Lucia Experimental Garden. 3.8.32.

3756 1 slip and 1 of Walter’s “Discs” (in ink) 3.22.32 Disc appears to be alive and sound. Taken from sand bed in St. Lucia. 3.8.32 Ananas sativa var. “Sugarloaf” from Mr. S.H. Walter’s collection in the Experimental Garden in St. Lucia. A good shaped desirable form of excellent quality being propagated by Mr. Walter by his new method of stem slices which enabled him to get 36 little pine apple plants from one plant in a single season.

Dead or nearly so. C.F. 12/24/32. Grew to 2 inches in Washington & was then sent here.

See Walter’s article in Tropical Agriculture, Feb. 1932. [??? ??] No.2 “Plant Propagation at Union Experimental Station, St. Lucia” See my field notes 18315. 3.8.32.

3757 Single yam in box on deck Growing fine D.C. Det. House July 14/32 Dioscorea sp. The “Caplaou” yam of Martinique (What species of Dioscorea this is I was not able to determine) characterized by its large size and leaf wedge shape.

See photo P.H. Dorsett 571 and also 584 5 x 7. (Center of 3 yams.)

It is one of the yams that ripens its tubers during the winter months but is not prized as highly as the “Portugaise” yam. Quite phenomenal yields are obtained from yam fields. This curious fact is that while the potato was finding its way into the Onsut, the yam of the Onsut was being introduced into the Western Tropics. See R.O.Williams Useful Ornamental Plants of Trinidad & Tobago, p. 61. Lamentin, Martinique 3/10/32.

3758 1 yam on deck kept dry. alive 3.22 Dioscorea sp? “San Martin” yam. A winter ripening yam with a very rough bark-like skin and a long slender neck indicating a great deal of work must be required in digging it out of the ground. Not I judge one of the finer yams though because of its season grown in considerable quantities I judge from seeing this yam frequently on the markets. See Dorsett’s photo 571 left hand yam shown and 5 x 7 # 584 – right hand yam with long neck. From yard of Mr. Doques uncle at Lamentin, Martinique. 3.10.21.

3759 1 single specimen with 3 roots in dry box. alive 3.22 Dioscorea alata ? “Portugaise” A yam that ripens its tubers in summer – September, October. It was just starting its growth on March 10 and many of the yams kept for planting under leaves & rubbish were beginning to start into growth.

568 photo Dorsett left hand photo – leafless plant

This is the most highly prized of the yams of Martinique. The name indicates its origin or the history of its introduction in the 16th century in all probability. See Dorsett’s photo 562 571 shown on extreme right and 575 584 5 x 7 photo shown on extreme left. Slender smooth skinned yam. Lamentin, Martinique. 3.10.32.

3760 Several plants from root suckers of this. Alive 3.22 July 12/32 growing Det. house D.C. Artocarpus incisa, Suales Bread Fruit. Root suckers chopped from roots of a tree evidently used for propagation in Island where large fine bread fruits are much used.

From village in Grande Terre, Guadeloupe. 3.11.32

Growing in calcareous limestone soil on one of the mounds of limestone in the low flat island of Grande Terre. I believe the Bread Fruit if protected when young will make a handsome bearing tree in South Florida. In the West Indies this tree is propagated by inducing suckers to form & then recovering them with a piece of the root. See photo by D.F. 18516 of women holding these plants just removed from tree.

3761 5.14/32 A few seeds in a pot half ripe. 98862 alive 3.22 [Vanqueria Madagascariensis Inga laurina Poisdoux A valuable shade and wind break tree with dark green glossy foliage like a laurel and remarkably strong trunks which appear to withstand the hurricanes well.

( in ink) 18517-10 D.F. photo In pots 6/30/32 C.F. alive in D.C. Det. House July 14.32

Trees that their tops blown off of them in Guadeloupe in 1929 have so far regained their form as to be very presentable trees now. (See D.F. photo 18517-10) The pods contain beans that are surrounded by a sweet but insipid arillus of which children are quite fond – have the name “Poisdoux”. From Jardin d’Essais, Point a Pitre, Guadeloupe, Grande Terre Isl. 3.11.32.

3762 Vangueria edulis “Tamarind des Indies” Rubiacious tree with large herbaceous light green leaves with prominent midribs. Smallish tree that in March & April bear quantities of globular green fruit 1 ½ inches across.

Dorsett’s photo 585 (5 x 7) good 588 of tree 589 of fruit small

When their fruits turn brown and become overripe and look rotten they are edible. The seeds are then surrounded by a slightly acid brown pulp reminding one of the tamarind. Deserves a place in the dooryard collection of South Florida. One sees the fruit in quantity on the Guadeloupe market where the dealers may be seen eating the sticky fruit pulp. Dorsett photo 576.

3763 48998 F.P.I. Ipomoea umbellata ? Large bright yellow flowers not abundant enough to make it a very showy species but worthy of trial where not before grown. Herbaceous climber. In pots 6/30/32 Chapman Field Garden

Like all Ipomoeas deserves to be watched lest it shows weedy tendencies.

4 plants C.F. 12/14/32. 3 in pots.

In Martinique it did not appear to be a problem weed. Collected near Vauchin

Village growing on the barbed wire fence on edge of cane field. 3.10.32. Martinique.

3764 98853 5.14.32 Growing July 1.32 C.F. erecta Hamelia patens I have never admired this species of Rubiaceae before but this large flowered form with what appears to me unusually brilliant flowers attracting my attention. Photo #567D It grew in the the Monument Square near the church in Lamentin, Martinique. To compare with Florida forms as an ornamental. 3.10.32. Hamelia patens (large flowered form) Lamentin, Martinique in Monument Square near church. 3.10.32 3765 F.P.I. 98811. 5/14/32 Calliandra tergemina The so called “Boi patat” of Martinique. It grows commonly along the roadsides and is often encouraged to form a fence like bridge. When in young leaf it is very pretty. Its delicate light brown foliage of a bronze brown color is attractive and it’s pretty pink and white brush like flowers composed of long slender stamens add to the attractiveness of this bush when used as a hedge plant. Coll. on Morne la Rigale, Martinique. 3.10.32.

3766 Garcinia sp. “Cochin chiua” Species which was considered the true Mangosteen by the authorities in the Jardin d’Essais Descleux, Martinique when trees are growing & have fruited. Leaves very large and leathery and flowers white with numerous stamens that appear to function properly. Mr. Desire’ Kervegant of Jardin d ‘Essais can get seeds later. Outline of shell which is quite rugose. Fruit judging from shells found under tree about the size of Mangosteen but thin walled and pyriform in shape. Said to be yellow when ripe and very sour indeed. From account and from flowering specimens I am inclined to think it one of the various Cochin chiua species. Not xanthochymus or dulcis or cornea. From Jardin d ‘Essais Deslieux, Fort de France, Martinique. 3.9.32.

3767 Cuttings in box on upper deck. Alive 3.22.32 Piper betel betle The Betel vine of Malaysia., the leaves?? of which forms with a thin shaving of the nut of the Betel palm Areca catechu and fresh lime & a clove & tobacco, the quid which in Ceylon is so universally chewed by the Singalese. Betel chewing is one of the bad habits of Ceylon natives. This vine requires light soil, plenty of moisture & shade. It is ornamental and historically interesting and could be grown by amateurs as a porch vine. From the Javanese Kampong Cramerweg Mar Paramaribo, Suriname. 3.4.32

3768 In Wardian cases. Xanthosoma The finest appearing “Tainas” for sale on the St. Lucia market at Castries. Remarkable for their size and uniformity. I did not get the local varietal name. The Tainas do Well in South Florida & deserve to be better known there. They grow in the hammock soils remarkably well. Tainas make excellent “potato salad” when boiled, cooked & sliced. St. Lucia (Castries) 3.8.32

3769 1 plant on aft deck. alive 3.22 Passiflora sp. The so-called “Pomme Calabas” of Guadeloupe Characterized by having two large yellowish green bracts that hang down and form the perfectly round fruit. Dorsett photo 587. This fruit is said to be intensely sour even eaten ripe. A striking variety of which nobody could give me the name. From the Jardin d’Essais near Pointe de Pitre, Grande Terre (Isl) of Guadeloupe. 3.11.32 Presented by Mr. Corbin, Chief du ??????, Jardin d’Essais , Pointe a Pitre

3770 Note Check up on this. It seems that there are two species in Guadeloupe. Lonchocarpus domingensis The “Savonelti de Riviere” of Martinique. A medium sized handsome spreading tree with long slender branches and large pinnate leaves and violet or rose colored flowers. (in ink) See Dorsett’s photo 579 of the Savonelti de Riviere near Bourg de Francois. This tree grows along the streams and might prove a valuable shade tree & wind break tree more or less resistant to the hurricanes because of its slender pliable twigs & branches. A leguminous tree of real promise for South Florida. Botanical Garden, Basse Terre, Guadeloupe. 3.12.32.

Lonchocarpus domingensis “Savonelti de Riviere” Coll. Bot. Garden, Basse Terre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies. 3.12.32

3771 98871 – F.P.I. Passiflora laurifolia “Pomme Liane” One of the best growers among the Passifloras with large glossy green leaves & purple to white flowers that are very showy. (in ink) In pots 6/30/32 3/8/32 The fruits have short pedicles below the persistent bracts and where green are shaped like some gourds. When ripe the fruits are golden yellow and the stripes disappear. The flavor is agreeable but no better than P. edulis. From Market Castries, St. Lucia. Compare with 3775 and Herb. Specimen taken from Jardin d’Essais at Pointe a Pitre which bears this number.

3772 Sicana odorifera The Casabanana of . Grown as a vegetable in Guadeloupe where it is allowed to climb into tall trees and fruits well there. As a table vegetable , Mr Armour pronounces this excellent. (in ink) In pots 6/30/32 Its texture and flavor are extremely pleasant. It deserves to be given a place on our tables. Ernest the chef prepares it by boiling much as one does the summer squash. the fruit looks not ripe but hard and without perfume. M. Corbin recommends it be peeled , sliced & the seeds removed and fried like eggplant in oil. Requires a tall trellis like that of our Chayote. Presented by Mr. Kervegant, Fort de France, Martinique.

3773 Harold F. Loomis (in pencil) Dead Raphia vinifera The Wine Palm of Africa. A striking pinnate palm with unusual leaves rising almost upright from the rather low trunk somewhat as do the leaves of the Cohune Palm. It bears numerous clusters of fruits that are covered with scales and polished like pieces of jade – very decorative fruits indeed.1 ½ in. long by 1 ¼ in. across. A species that grows down to the water’s edge in the streams of Africa. Collected on Route from Fort de France to St. Pierre 10 – 15 km. out of Fort de France, Martinique. 3-10-32. Dead on arrival. 5/12/32. C.F.

3774 Erythrina sp. Deep red flowered species, may be umbrosa. Presented by the head gardener of the Jardin d’Essais at Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe, B.W.I. 3.12.32. These Erythrina are all called Immortelles by the people of Guadeloupe, I suppose because they flower when the leaves are all off the tree.

3775 98872 Passiflora laurifolia Pretty yellow fruits the size of hens eggs or larger with rather soft shell and acid pulp. Called “Pomme liane” by the people of Guadeloupe, Grand Terre. In pots 6/30/32. C.F. Fruits bought on the market at Basse Terre, Guadeloupe. Not infrequent I am told on the markets there but not a really important fruit. Attractive but rather too flaccid to be a good market fruit. Flavor acidulant. Did not get a good chance to try it. 3.13.32.

3776 Calophyllum antillanum The “Galba” of Guadeloupe and elsewhere in West Indies. (See 2815) Used very extensively as a wind break tree and a roadside tree in Guadeloupe where it stood up under the hurricane remarkably well, not being blown over even though it’s top was often blown to pieces. A handsome dark foliage shade tree with unusually dark green leaves. Not too large for street purposes. Bark is attractive mottled gray white flowers are fragrant. An oil expressed from large seed in . See D.F. photo 18515-2. Coll. Basse Terre Guadeloupe Bot. Garden. 3.13.32.

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3778 Cuttings in Wardian Case. Alive 3.23 Unidentified Liana found growing over a large mango tree in the Expirment Station at Union in St. Lucia. The native assistant gave the local name as “Godma”. ( spelled phonetically from his pronunciation) From its great vigor and the large number of aerial roots it produces, I think it would prove useful as a pergola vine or vine for use in hammock creation efforts in South Florida. Coll. cuttings at Union Ex. Station, St. Lucia. 3.8.32.

3779 Undetermined small tree. Probably a Eugenia bearing with glossy dark foliage that made it very attractive and masses of small yellow fruit in clusters on the branches. For hedges or wind breaks this might be useful in the South. Collected from near St. Cloud on Basse Terre, Guadeloupe Island, French West Indies. 3.12.1932

Undetermined Eugenia ? Near edge of rain forest on St. Cloud, Basse Terre, Guadeloupe Isl. B.W.I. 3.12.1932

3780 P.H. Dorsett Undetermined Melastomataceae Small tree with rather pretty sprays of small white flowers and attractive characteristic foliage of interesting size and shape.

In the St. Cloud region of Basse Terre, Guadeloupe where the temperature is cool & there is a good deal of rain. Will require plenty of moisture I imagine. 3.12.32 Undetermined Melastomataceae Small tree fls. white. A few miles out of Basse Terre, Guadeloupe (Grand Terre) French West Indies. 3.12.32

3781 P.H. Dorsett Undetermined shrub with long pendant clusters of white to purple berries that are attractive for their color and abundance. This shrub occurs along the pathways in the rainfall region of several of the islands. These collected near St. Cloud on Basse Terre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies. 3.13.32. In general habit this reminds one of Symphoricarpos

Undetermined shrub with white to purple berries on pendant spikes. St. Cloud, Basse Terre, Guadeloupe. 3.13.32

3782 P.H. Dorsett Undetermined under shrub 3 ft. or more high with peculiar white flowers and white fruit tinged with purple. From the rain forest region of Guadeloupe (Basse Terre) near St Cloud. 3.13.32

Undetermined shrub. Rain forest region of Guadeloupe, Basse Terre, French West Indies. Attractive white fls. & purplish fruits. 3.13.32

3783 H.H. Loomis 98501 S.P.I. Thrinax barbadensis. Tall slender fan palm with aspects of the Silver Palm of Florida but much larger and more of a palm for parks and street plantings.

Loomis 279. 50 plants or more. 12.14.32 C.F.

The fruit clusters of greenish fruit which turn black are not particularly attractive. This palm seems adapted to a strongly calcareous soil for one found it on one of the limestone mounds back of Point a Pitre which has a soil similar to that of South Florida. A rocky oolitic limestone underlies it. see Loomis photographs & notes. Seed presented by M. Baffon, the Superintendent of the Jardin d’ Essais or Botanic Garden of Basse Terre. 3.13.32.

3784 in boxes on deck alive Det House D.C. July 14/32 alive 3.23 Colocasia esculenta “Madere Bianchi” The best Dasheen sold on the Point a Pitre market. Though perhaps not the equal of the “Trinidad” the fact that that part of the island called “Grande Terre” of Guadeloupe is of limestone and shell sand resembling very much our South Floriad soil though with more real soil may make this Madere Bianchi a better variety to grow there than the Trinidad. Call to Young’s special attention and ask that this be tested at Callahan, Point a Pitre, Guadeloupe. 3.12.32

3785 in boxes on deck alive 3.23 Colocasia esculenta “Madere Noir” A rather unattractive dark looking dasheen with many small rootlets and generally sold with both top and bottom but off [????]. Said to be a course fleshed variety principally used for stock feeding purposes. Recommended to be tried on the limestone soils of South Florida as it is I think accustomed to soils impregnated with lime such as those of Grande Terre, Guadeloupe Isl. B.W.I. 3-12-32. Coll. on market, Point a Pitre, Guadeloupe.

3786 in box on aft deck (cuttings) alive 3.23 growing July 14.32 Det. House D.C. Anthurium grandifolium ? A very handsome enormous leaved aroid growing Epiphytic more or less on the trunk of trees in the edge of the rain forest or near it but able I think withstand full sunlight and some drough. If it can stand Florida sunlight will make a rival of Monstera as a foliage plant for patios. See photo D.F. 18514- 3. Collected 3.13.32 on the road to St. Cloud not far from the Mountain Club House, Route de Baines Jaunes, 1000 ft.alt. Guadeloupe (Basseterre) French West Indies. 3.13.32

3787 Budwood in cool room. L.R. Toy. Mangifera indica “d’ Or” or “Mango d’ Or” “A large round mango of uniform yellow color not fibrous. Medium sized seed much pulp juicy rather inclined toward acid side “ according to Mr. Buffon, the Head Gardener of the Jardin d’ Essais at Basse Terre who presented us with the scions cut from the tree in the garden there. I think this variety was once tried in Florida but lost in the hurricane. It was a promising sort. 3.12.32 Guadeloupe (Grande Terre) French West Indies.

3788 Budwood in cool room. Mangifera indica “Zeu Coq d’ Inde” = Turkey’s egg “Mango small, size of a Turkey’s egg with thin skin, yellow, fibrous, large stone, very highly perfumed sort” according to Mr. Buffon who gave us the scions from a tree in the Jardin d’ Essais at Basse Terre (Grande Terre), Guadeloupe, French West Indies. I judge a mid season sort that may prove better than the ordinary turpentine mango. 3.12.32.

3789 Plants on deck. Note: Send 3 plants to R.H. Peebles, Sacaton, Arizona, 3 to H.R. Leding, State College, New Mexico and 2 to H.F. Loomis, Chapman Field. Cactus intortus, Mill. The Turks-cap or Turks-head cactus. One of the very showy and interesting forms of Cactus which bears on top of its ovoid ribbed basal portion a densely wooly head or Cephalium which grows to 12 or more inches in height and is covered with brown bristles. (in ink) 8 small plants only. alive Det. house D.C. July 14.32. This head reminds one of a Turkish leg though it is not red. The fruits are deep pink. The size of one little finger tip and are borne on the top of the head. A showy interesting species that occurs in many places in the Bahama Islands. Collected by Loomis on Saba Island, Dutch West Indies. 3.13.32.

3790 Tamarindus indica Tamarind Pods from a tree bearing unusually large fine tamarinds some of them eight to nine inches long and 1 ½ in. wide of good quality. Tree appeared to be a good cropper. Collected on the hillside above the Village of Bottom on the Island of Saba, Dutch West Indies. 3.15.1932.

3791 Orchid on aft deck) P.H. Dorsett Orchid sp. White flowers with narrow petals. Not very showy. Evidently this species can stand drouth well for it was growing on a stone wall exposed to the dry air and brilliant sunlight of the Valley of Bottom on the Island of Saba, Dutch West Indies at an altitude of 700 feet above the sea. 3.15.32. 3792 Orchid sp. Undetermined. Species growing on the perpendicular wall of the mountain side on the route between Bottom and Windward side, Saba Island, Dutch West Indies. This orchid should stand exposure to bright tropical sunlight & intense light but not heat for although the rocks get hot they are not desert dry. 3.15.32.

3793 Cuttings in box. Alive 3.32. Alive Washington Quarantine July 14.32. Aletris (Dracaena ) fragrans “White Rayo” Native of Tropical Africa. This species which is I believe known in Florida solely as an ornamental and used in a restricted way is so used in Guadeloupe as to make a remarkable hedge and wind break. Photo of D.F. 18513-7. 3.13.1932. The canes about 5 feet long are planted closely together like piling and taking root make a remarkably dense living hedge and low wind break. When in flower these hedges are said to fill the air with their fragrance. Introduced on the chance that this is a different variety from that grown in Florida as pot plants. Cuttings from hedge in Basse Terre, Guadeloupe, French W. Indies.

3794 98808. F.P.I. 5/14/32. Brownea grandiceps One of the show trees of the tropics because of its flaccid mottled young leaves which hang pendant in great clusters perfectly perpendicular on the trees until the leaves harden when they take their normal horizontal position. Its great clusters of deep scarlet flowers in heads 4 inches across are very decorative even though the flowers themselves are ??????. Requires a moist situation and shade in afternoon. Coll. at Tivoli Garden, Martinique, French West Indies. 3.9.32.

3795 Phaseolus lunatus The so called Run Bean of the people of Bottom in the Island of Saba where it is much planted and where it has to compete with the Bonavist Bean (Dolichos lablab) which although similar with pod form is widely different. The Ph. lunatus has a small hilum whereas the D. lablab has a large one - 1/3 the circumference of the bean. Collected from the field in Bottom, Saba, a variety with brown spotted variable seeds. 3.15-1932.

3796 Dolichos lablab The standard variety grown by the inhabitants of the town of Bottom in the island of Saba where the Bonavist Bean as it is called by them forms an important article of diet. I got these seeds from old uncle Joe a ???? gardener there who had these and 3795 the Run Bean mixed together in his hat. He was saving them for seed. 3.15.32. 3797 98821 5/14/32 growing July 1,1932 C.F. Cassia Senna obovate (Collad.) Batka. A low bushy herbaceous Cassia with typical yellow Cassia-like flowers and flat pods rounded at both ends & crested in the middle which is grown by the negroes of Anguilla, B.W.I. and used as a purge by them. 3/16/32 (in ink) In pots 6/30/32 C.F. 4 pl. C.F. 12/24/32 The fresh twigs & leaves are steeped & the “tisane” or tea drunk when cold. A naturalized species introduced probably from the old world ?????.

Senna obovate From negroes garden in Anguilla where the tea made from the twigs or leaves is used as a purge. Anguilla B.W.I. 3.16.32

3798 Philodendron sp. ? affine P. giganteum A very large leaved dark green scandent species with leaves 3 feet or more long. Strikingly handsome species which ought to be successful in gardens in Southern California & Florida. It may be a form of giganteum in which it is in the ????. Coll. by Loomis & Toy on route between Fort de France and St. Pierre, Martinique. 3.10.1932 Spadix 3 ft. long grotesque with seeds imbedded in it.

3799 98876. 5/14/32 Plumeria alba ? A narrow leaved form with long narrow leaves that curl in at their margins. Flowers white on long peduncles. (in ink) Growing at C.F. Dec. 1932 in pots Grows everywhere in the pot holes in calcareous rocks of the Island of Anguilla where the soil is strikingly like rocky reefs of South Florida. Evidently drouth resistant to a high degree. Coll. 3.16.32.

3800 98824 5.14.32 Cedrela odorata Seeds collected in the Jardin d’essais of Basse Terre, Guadeloupe 3.12.32. (in ink) Many up in large pot 6/30/32 C.F.

This is the West Indian or Spanish Cedar, the wood of which is soft and easily worked and fragrant and in great demand for cigar boxes. The Porto Rico Forestry Service had a man in Guadeloupe getting large amounts of seed for use in producing shade trees for coffee plantations in the island. This tree grows very well in South Florida & possibly will grow in Southern Texas under protection. It is a very valuable timber tree.