42 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



45167 to 45169— Continued. 



to 230 meters. The fruits are small, of an orange-yellow color, and the 

 leaves are used in making a native medicine." 



45168. Passifloea sp. Passifloracese. Granadilla. 



" An ornamental vine from the fields and prairies of northeastern 

 Paraguay at altitudes of 170 to 260 meters. The annual grovrth, which 

 is 1 to 2 meters, is ashy white in color. May, 1917." 



45169. PsiDiUM sp. Myrtacese. Guava. 



" AraQA mbayd. A shrub, 2 to 3 meters high, which grows among 

 rocks and stones at altitudes of 170 to 230 meters. The fruit is sweet, 

 nonacid, yellow when ripe, ovate, and 2 centimeters or more in length." 



45170 to 45175. 



From Soochow, China. Presented by Mr. N. Gist Gee, Soochow University. 

 Received September 10, 1917. 



45170. CiTEUiJLUS VULGARIS Schrad. Cucurbitacese. Watermelon. 

 Chinese name Ma ling kua (Mo. ling quo), meaning horse-bell melon. 



45171 to 45175. Cucumis melo L. Cucurbitaceae. Muskmelon. 



45171. Chinese name Huang mi lii (Waung mih loo), meaning yellow 

 honey melon. 



45172. Chinese name. P' in kuo kua (Bing quo quo), meaning apple 

 melon. 



45173. Chinese name Zeh lung quo, meaning lined melon. 



45174. Chinese name Su hsiang kua (Soo shang quo), meaning 

 soochow sweet-smelling melon. 



45175. Chinese name ChHng p'i lii jou kua (Tsing bi loh nyoh quo), 

 meaning blue-skin green-flesh melon. 



45176. Prunus mume Sieb. and Zucc. Amygdalacese. 



Japanese apricot. 



Grown at the Plant Introduction Field Station, Chico, Calif., from scions 

 presented by Mr. David Fairchild, from his place, " In the Woods," Chevy 

 Chase, Md. The collection was imported in 1905-6 through the Yokohama 

 Nursery Co., of Japan. Numbered September 2/8, 1917. 



" Variety Ginfukwrin. A white-flow-ered variety of the so-called ' Japanese 

 flowering plum tree.' These are among the most picturesque of all flowering 

 trees and compose a large part of the illustrations on Japanese screens. Be- 

 cause of their extreme earliness and the fragrance of their blooms they deserve 

 a place in our gardens. The fruits are sour, but have a delicious wild flavor 

 about them. The flowers of many varieties are often caught by the frost, but 

 the Ginfukurin is rather slow in coming into bloom and so is more likely to 

 escape." ( Fairchild. ) 



45177. Tetrazygia BicoLOR (Mill.) Cogn. Melastomacese. 

 (Miconia hicolor Triana.) 



From Homestead, Fla. Seeds presented by Mr. Charles A. Mosier. Re- 

 ceived September 13, 1917. 

 A low ornamental shrub, 5 to 10 feet high, remarkable for the white powdery 

 down of the branchlets and the inflorescence. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long, entire ; 

 flowers white, in five to seven flowered cymes. Native to the West Indies. 

 (Adapted from Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, p. 25^, as 

 Tetrazygia angustifoUa argi/rophylla.) 



