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SEEDS AND PLANTS I^IPORTED. 



Bonavist bean. 



Lima bean. 



Common bean. 



Fabaceae. Cowpea. 



.seeds, fur the inirpcise of selecting or developing strains suited to the various 

 condition.s obtaining in different parts of the United States. 



46358. DoLicHOS lablab L. Fabaceae. 

 "No. 14. Frijol tdijinioise." 



46359 to 46361. Phaseolus LrxATrs L. Fabaceae. 



46359. '"No. 9. (Juaracaro bianco." 



46360. •Nh. 11. Huaniiaro cafe con leche." 

 46361. "No. 1."). CiKi I itciiro peine." 



46362 to 46370. Phaseolus vulgaris L. Fabaceae. 



46362. " No. 7. Poncha rosada." 



46363. "No. 6. Caraota blanra." 



46364. "No..".. Huero (Je paloma." 



46365. " No. 3. " Gunracaro rcilondo ijintnrlo." 



46366. "No. 8. Vnraola nef/nir 



46367. " No. 16. Poncha ronada jaspeada" 



46368. " No. 1. Guacamaya.'" 



46369. •■ No. 1,8. Caraota, indieciia pequena.'' 



46370. "No. 12. Giiarucaio Colorado." 

 46371 to 46373. Vigxa sinensis (Torner) 8avi. 



46371. • No. 10. Fifjol Colorado." 



46372. " No. 2. Frijol hhntco de sopa." 



46373. " No. 4. Frijol iaijo." 



46374. SoLANrM mammosum L. Solanaceae. Susumber. 



From Porto Rico. Presented by Prof. C. S. Sargent, Arnold Arboretum, 

 Jamaica Plain. Mass. Collected by INIr. Sylvester Baxter. Received July 

 25, 1918. 



" In .Jamaica difliculties in bringing eggplants to a healthy maturity have been 

 met by grafting them on Solanum mammosuui. the so-called ' susumber tree," a 

 rank, tropical weed, closely related botanically to the eggplant. The grafts are 

 said to produce fruits of large size and fine flavor, and as the stock is peren- 

 nial hearing is continual." {Cool- and Collins, Economic Plants of Porto Rico. 

 Contributions from the U. S. National Herharitun. rol. 8, p. 2.'i.i.) 



VoY previous intro<lu<tion, see S. P. I. No. 27713. 



46375. Casimiroa edulis La Llave. Rutaceae. White sapote. 



From Guadalajara, Mexico. Presented by Mr. F. S. Funiivall, through Mr. 

 J. R. Silliman, American consul. Received July 2G, 191 s. 



"A pear-shaped variety of the white sapote. The fruits were healthy, of good 

 size, ripe, and of a briglit-yellow color." {Furni/vaU.) 



For previous introduction and description, see S. P. I. No. 39583. 



For an illustration of the white .sapote tree, see Plate I. 



46376 and 46377. Barosma spp. Rutacete. 



From Transvaal, South Africa. I'resented by Mr. J. F. Jewell, American 

 consul at Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa, who obtained them 

 from the Director of Agriculture, through the Division of Botany, Trans 

 vaal Department of Agriculture. Pretoria. Received July 29, 1918. 



