22 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMI'ORTKD. 



26643 to 26646 Continued. 



26644. Olive brown. "Mo ahih ton or the Mo shift bean. This bean is 

 mostly used for cattle feed. They also sometimes extract the oil and use it 

 for luiir tonii 



26645. Gfreen, very similar to No. 20854. " Ch'ing tou or green bean. This 

 bean is nsr<l to make bean curd, an article of food much prized by the 



< hiiicsr; the sprout of thifl bean LB also much liked.'' 



26646. Yellow, very similar to No. 1727:5. " Yiixni tou or Huang tou (yellow 

 bean). This bean forms the staph* crop of Manchuria, and is eaten by the 

 natives in many ways. Oil is also extracted from them and the residuum 

 forms the bean cake of commerce which is used so extensively in Japan for 

 fertilizer." 



26647. Canavali ensiforme (L.) DC. Jack bean. 



From Mayaguez, Porto Rico. Presented by Mr. D. W. May, director, Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. Received February 3, 1910. 

 "An upright variety grown in 1909 at Biloxi, Miss., Baton Rouge, La., and Gaines- 

 ville, Fla. It makes a bushy plant 3 to 5 feet high, very different from other varieties. 

 Seeds white." (C. V. Piper.) 



26648 and 26649. Prunus sibirica L. 



From Steglitz, near Berlin, Germany. Presented by Mr. F. Ledier. first curator, 

 Royal Botanic Garden. Received February 3, 1910. 



26648. (Cuttings.) 



26649. (Seeds.) 



"This has a future as a hardy ornamental shrub or small tree in our Northern 

 States." (F. N. Meyer.) 



26650 to 26653. 



From Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Presented by Prof. J. Burtt Davy, 

 Government agrostologist and botanist, Transvaal Department of Agriculture. 

 Received February 3, 1910. 

 Seeds of the following: 



26650. Pentzia ixcana (Thunb.) Kuntze. " Karroobush. " 

 See No. 2G266 for previous introduction. 



26651. Trichloris mendocina (Phil.) Kurtz. 



Distribution. — Central Argentina, in the Provinces of Santa del Estero, 

 Cordoba, and Mendoza. 



26652. Elionurus argentius Nees. 



Distribution. — South Africa, from German Southwest Africa, the Kalahari 

 Desert, and Transvaal, southward to the Cape. 



26653. Chaetochloa nigrirostris (Nees) Skeels. (Panicum nigriroslre 

 Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 55. 1841. Setaria nigrirostris Dur. and Schinz. Fl. 

 Afr. 5: 774. 1895.) 



The name Setaria Beauv. Agrost. 51. pi. 13. f. 3. 1812, is invalid as applied 

 to a genus of grasses, since it was used earlier by Acharius, Lich. Suec. 4, 

 256. 1798, for a genus of lichens and in that sense replaces the genus Alectoria 

 Acharius, 1810. The name Chaetochloa was therefore proposed by Scribner 

 in 1897 for the genus of grasses previously known as Setaria. 

 Distribution. — South Africa from the vicinity of Klerksdorp in central Johan- 

 nesburg southward through the eastern part of Orange River Colony and Natal 

 to the Queenstown and Komgh a districts in Cape Colony. Original locality, — 

 " In altoribus ad Omsammubo, locis graminosis alt. 1,000 (Drege)." 

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