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-44203 to 44238— Continued. 



44214. "(No. 2342a.) Hei tou, meaning 'green bean.' A small, 

 shining, black soy bean, generally used, when boiled, as a food 

 for hard-working horses, mules, donkeys, and oxen, mixed with 

 chopped straw and kaoliang grains." (Meyer.) 



44215 to 44217. Phaseolus vulgaeis L. Fabaceaj. Common bean. 



" From Malanyu, Chihli Province, China, November 25, 1916. Yiin tou, 

 meaning ' fragrant bean.' Garden beans eaten mostly when green, as a 

 vegetable." (Meyer.) 



Selections made from No. 2343a. 



44215. Bluish black. 



44216. Pure white mixed with ivory white. 



44217. Maroon mixed with gray. 



44218 to 44221. Vigna sinensis (Torner) Savi. Fabacese. Cowpea. 

 "From Malanyu, Chihli Province, China, November 25, 1916." 



44218. "(No. 2344a.) No ling tan cMang tou, meaning 'wren's egg 

 precious bean.' A speckled variety of cowpea with white top. 

 Cowpeas are in great favor with the Chinese as a human food; 

 they are eaten boiled with rice, stewed in meat dishes, and cooked 

 in soups ; they are believed to promote speedy excretions of waste 

 in the body." (Meyer.) 



44219. "(No. 2345a.) Hung chiang tou, meaning 'red precious 

 bean.' A small brown variety of cowpea." (Meyer.) 



44220. "(No. 2346a.) Hei yen pai chiang tou, meaning 'black-eyed 

 white precious bean.' A small, wrinkled, white cowpea, with 

 black hilum." (Meyer.) 



44221. "(No. 2347a.) Hung yen pai chiang tou, meaning 'red-eyed 

 white precious bean.' A small, wrinkled, white cowpea with red- 

 dish hilum." (Meyer.) 



"A brown-eyed variety of cowpea, quite similar to S. P. I. No. 

 34103, which seems fairly promising as a table variety." (C. V. 

 Piper. ) 

 44222 to 44226. Phaseolus aureus Roxb. Fabacese. Mung bean. 



"From Malanyu, Chihli Province, China, November 25, 1916." 

 Selected from No. 2347a, which was a mixed lot of seeds. 



44222. " Apparently ordinary green mung. Seed much like S. P. I. 

 No. 17289, which was grown from seed received from China." 

 (C. V. Piper.) 



44223. " Green mung. Seeds rather shiny, much the same as S. P. I. 

 No. 28053 from Manchuria and F. C. I. 01896, a green mung 

 selected from No. 31806, which is a field pea received from Chinese 

 Turkestan." (C. V. Piper.) 



44224. " Brown mung, much like S. P. I. No. 13395. Newman bean." 

 (C. Y. Piper.) 



44225. " Seeds green to brownish, densely speckled with black, giv- 

 ing a black appearance to the seed. We have never had seed 

 exactly like this, but S. P. I. No. 16323 is somewhat similar." 

 (C. y. Piper.) 



44226. " Apparently the same as S. P. I. No. 44225, but seeds dull, 

 the dullness due to crenulation." (C. V. Piper.) 



