OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1917. 71 



45617 and 45618. 



From Bultenzorg, Java. Seeds presented by Mr. P. J. S. Cramer, chief, 

 Plant-Breeding Station. Received December 26, 1917. 



45617. Crotalaria usaramoensis Balder f. Fabacese. 



An herbaceous plant used in Java for green manuring. Leaves com- 

 pound, remote; leaflets narrow ellii)tical. apex suhacuniinate, base cune- 

 ate, 4 to 6 centimeters long, 10 to 16 millimeters wide; stipules none. 

 Flowers pedicillate, numerous, in elongate terminal racemes. (Adapted 

 from Baker, Jom-nal of the Linncan Society, p. SJfG.) 



45618. Mimosa invisa Mart. Mimosacefe. 



A plant which is used in Java for green manuring. The stems are 

 prostrate or ascending, the foliage sensitive to the touch. The flowers 

 are described as rose colored. The species is distributed from Mexico 

 to central Brazil. (Adapted from MieheJi, Flore du Paraguay, p. 59.) 



45619 to 45622. 



From Concepcion, Paraguay. Seeds presented by Mr, Thomas R. Gwynn. 

 Received December 27, 1917. 



45619. DiocLEA REFLEXA Hook. f. Fabacese. 



Ornamental, woody, climbing plant, up to 20 feet in length, with com- 

 pound leaves composed of three thickish leaflets and rather dense 

 racemes (4 to 6 inches long) of red flowers. The broad-oblong leathery 

 pod, 3 to 4 inches long, is densely covered with yellowish gray silky 

 hairs. (Adapted from Oliver, Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. 2, p. 189.) 



45620. Ho^■ENIA dulcis Thunb. Rhanniacefe. Raisin tree. 

 An ornamental, deciduous .Japanese tree with leaves often 4 to 5 



inches long and white or greenish white flowers that make little dis- 

 play. After flowering, the peduncles thicken and become edible, being 

 red, pulpy, and of sweetish taste. Strange as it may seem, the thickened 

 reddish peduncles form the main attraction of the inflorescence. Suc- 

 cessfully propagated by cuttings of soft wood under glass. (Adapted 

 from The Florist's Exchange, January 22, 1916.) 



45621. ScHizoLOBiuM PARAHYBUM (Veil.) Blake. Csesalpiniacea'. 

 (»*?. exceUum Vog.) 



A very large, quick-growing tree, up to 120 feet in height ; native 

 of Brazil. The fine leathery leaves are bipinnate. The briixht-yellow 

 flowers are borne in large erect racemes) during Februai-y or March 

 when the tree is quite bare of leaves. The flowers are at once followed 

 by beautiful young foliage. It thrives up to 1.500 feet altitude in the 

 moist region of Ceylon. (Adapted from Macmillan, Handbook of Trop- 

 ical Gardening and Planting, 2d ed, p. 300.) 



45622. TiPUANA Tipu (Benth.) Lillo. Fabaceae. Tipu, 

 {T. speciosa Benth.) 



Ornamental, unarmed tree for the extreme southern United States. 

 Flowers yellow, showy, in loosely branched terminal panicles; standard 

 broadly orbicular, wings very broadly half-ovate, nnich longer than the 

 keel ; leaves unevenly piimately compound, leaflets 11 to 21, oblong, entire ; 

 pod stipitate, indehiscent, 1 to 3 seeded, samaralike. (Adapted from 

 Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 6, p. 3351.) 



