22 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



54798. Bromelia pincuix L. Bromeliacece. 



From Juau Mina. Canal Zono. Seed collected by Pr. David Fairchild. 

 Agricultural Explore!" in Cluirge of tlie Office of Foreign Seed and Plant 

 Introduction, Bureau of Plant Industry. Keceived January 19, 1922. 



" Seeds from fruits collected on the Jungle Trail, on the Chagres River. 

 Juan Mina, Canal Zone. September 7. 1921. A wild species of Bromelia, 5 

 or more feet in heiglit. producing very showy heads of deep-orange llowers 

 the s ze of a globe artichoke. The individual fruits are easily detached from 

 the head, and when crushed between tlie teeth provide a small quantity of 

 pleasantly flavored juice." (Fairchild.) 



For previous introduction, see S. I*. I. No. 32382. 



54799. Acacia vi:kf.k (tiuII. and Perr. Mimosacea?. 



From Khartum. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Seeds presented by Maj. R. G. 

 Archibald. Wellcome Tropical Rosea rch Laboratories, through Henry S. 

 Wellcome. Rece.ved January 19. 1922. 



"Hashab from Kordofan, which yields the finest qualities of gum arable." 

 (Archibald.) 



For experimental growing in the southwestern United States. 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 38524. 



54800. CoFFEA AMAEA Bntiining. Eiibiaceee. Coffee. 



From Port Louis. Mauritius. Seeds presented by G. Regnard. Received 

 January 13, 1922. 



The name Coffca amara has been assigned to the ilaiitsaka variety, a caf- 

 feine-free coffee from Madagascar, to show that it has characters which dis- 

 tinguish it from other caffeine-free species of CofTea. It has a pleasant aroma 

 but a b.tter taste which may be dispelletl by cultivation. The disk at the top 

 of the fruit resembles that of C. libirica more closely than it does that of 

 C. arabica. (Adapted from Bnnjning, Verslaacn fan Landbouwkundipe Onder- 

 zoekingcn dcr Rijkslandbouic Procfstatiotis, Netherlands, vol. IS, p. 115.) 



Introduced for the use of specialists in the Department of Agriculture. 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 43073. 



54801 to 54804. Eil'E'< vulgare Lam. Grossulariacete. 



Garden currant. 



From Woking. Surrey. England. Plants purchased from George Jackson & 

 Sou. Received January 21, 1922. 



Introduced for exi)erimental work by specialists in the Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



54801. Rabij Castle. 54S03. White Dutch. 



54SC2. Victoria. 54804. White Grape. 



54805. Camof.nsia maxima Welw. Fabace?r. 



From Cienfuegos. Cuba. Seeds presented by Robert ^L Grey, Harvard 

 Experiment Station. Received January 13, 1922. 



A delicately beautiful tropical-African leguminous vine with fragrant gold- 

 margined white flowers 8 inches long. 



These seeds came from a plant sent Mr. Grey in 1908 under S. P. I. No. 7344. 



For previous introduction and description, see S. P. I. No. 49280. 



54806 to 54888. Soja max (L.) Piper. Fabaceie. Soy bean. 



(Glycine hispuia Slaxim.) 



From Harbin, Manchuria. Seeds presented by B. W. Skvortzow. Re- 

 ceived February 2S, 1922. 



