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27856 to 27858— Continued. 



Seeds of the following; notes taken from the sacks: 



27856. "Rattlesnake Junior. Small, striped, oval; meat dark pink." 



27857. " Carmen Sy ha. Meat perfectly white." 



27858. "Princess Marie. I am sure this is seed of the dark-green skin and 

 dark-red meat variety, the kind most grown in Roumania." 



27859 to 27872. Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. Cowpea. 



From Monetta, S. C. Grown by Mr. J. M. Johnson, crop of 1909. Numbered for 

 convenience in recording distribution May 7, 1910. 



Seeds of the following: 



27859 to 27861. Hybrids between Iron and Black. 



27859. (P. B. No. 14a4-l-3-l.) 27861. (P. B. No. 14a8-5- 



27860. (P. B. No. 14a4-l-3-4.) 3-1.) 

 27862 to 27866. Hybrids between Iron and Large Blackeye, 



27862. (P. B. No. 17b2-2-l.) 27865. (P. B. No. 17b2-2-4.) 



27863. (P. B. No. 17b2-2-2.) 27866. (P. B. No. 17c2-2-2.) 



27864. (P. B. No. 17b2-2-3.) 



27867 to 27871. Hybrids between Iron and Whippoorwill 



27867. (P. B. No. 18bl-2-3.) 27870. (P. B. No. 18b5-l-2.) 



27868. (P. B. No. 18bl-2-4.) 27871. (P. B. No. 18b9-l-l.) 



27869. (P. B.No. 18b5-l-l.) 

 27872. Iron. 



27873. Sapium jenmani Hemsl. 



From Georgetown, Demarara, British Guiana. Presented by Mr. F. A. Stockdale, 

 assistant director and Government botanist, Science and Agriculture Depart- 

 ment, Botanic Gardens. Received May 5, 1910. 



"A rubber-producing plant, that should be planted in a humid situation, shaded 

 from the wind. It does best here in well-drained, fully cleared clayey-peaty land 

 some distance up the rivers, and is making most excellent growth at our experiment 

 stations. In heavy clay soils, exposed to wind, this plant does not grow luxuriantly, 

 developing into a shrubby bush very liable to attacks from Lecanium scale." (Stock- 

 dale.) 



"A tall forest tree growing in the low, warm forests of British Guiana and said to be 

 the principal, if not the only, source of the rubber exported from that colony. This 

 rubber has a wonderful elasticity and fetches the highest prices in the English markets. 

 It is extracted as scrap by the native Indians. This tree might be grown with good 

 results in the Philippine Islands." (H. Pittier.) 



Distribution. — In the alluvial forests of the Pomeroon district of British Guiana. 



27874. (Undetermined.) 



From Horqueta, Paraguay, South America. Presented by Mr. T. R. Gwynn. 

 Received May 6, 1910. 



" Ymangazu, Paraguay rubber seed." (Gwynn.) 

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