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36551 to 36560. Medicago sativa L. Alfalfa. 



From Poona, India. Presented by Rao Sahib G. K. Kelkar, Extra Deputy 

 Director of Agriculture. Received November 3, 1913. 

 Description by Mr. Gammie, Imperial Cotton Specialist, taken from Mr. Forster 

 Main's letter dated April 4, 1913. 



"From botanical examination it seems that the specimens do not show practically 

 any appreciable difference, the only slight differences which were noticed being the 

 more or less hairy nature of the leaves, the prominent or obscure toothing of their 

 margins, the greater or less emargination of their tips and the smaller or larger size of 

 the same." 



36551. "(No. 1.) Grown at Ganeshkhind Garden from seed obtained from 

 Manavadar. ITas small obovate-cuneate leaflets three-fourths to 1 inch long 

 by one-fifth to one-fourth inch broad, hairy on the under surface, midrib, and 

 nerves, with the apex emarginate and retuse." 



36552. "(No. 2.) Grown at Ganeshkhind Garden from seed obtained from 

 Rajkot. Has less hairy leaflets with less prominent teeth." 



36553. "(No. 3.) Grown at Ganeshkhind Garden from seed obtained from 

 Palitana No. 1. Teeth of leaflets more prominent." 



36554. "(No. 4.) Grown at Ganeshkhind Garden from seed obtained from 

 Palitana No. 2. More or less like Manavadar No. 1. (S. P. I. No. 36551.)" 



36555. "(No. 5.) Grown at. Ganeshkhind Garden from seed obtained from 

 Bhownugger. Less hairy, large leaflets 1£ to 1£ inches long by one-fourth 

 to one-half inch, oblanceolate, less emarginate, teeth rather obscure." 



36556. "(No. 6.) Grown at Ganeshkhind Garden from seed obtained from 

 Bhownugger (Umrala). Teeth of leaflets prominent, leaflets small, hairy. 

 less emarginate. The flowers showed no difference." 



36557. "(No. 7.) Grown at Ganeshkhind Garden from seed obtained from 

 Bhownugger (Godhra). Teeth of leaflets prominent, leaflets small, hairy, 

 less emarginate." 



36558. "(No. 8.) Grown at Ganeshkhind Garden from seed obtained from 

 Bhownugger (Botad). Leaflets small, teeth prominent." 



36559. "(No. 9.) Grown at Ganeshkhind Garden from seed obtained from 

 Bhownugger (Kundla). Leaflets small, teeth prominent." 



36560. "(No. 10.) From Junaghar. A new sample for your trial. " 



36561. ROLLINIA ORTHOPETALA A. DC. 



Seeds from S. P. I. No. 22512 grown at the Plant Introduction Field Station, 

 Miami, Fla., in 1912. Received November 0, 1913. 

 "From its behavior at Miami this tree promises to be a success in south Florida. 

 It should be tried on the edge of the Everglades. Mrs. Fairchild and I both found 

 the fruit delicious." (David Fairchild.) 



S<v S. P. I. No. 27579 for previous introduction and description and Plate I for an 

 illustration of a fruiting branch of this tree. 



36562. Annona cherimola X squamosa. 



Grown at the Plant Introduction Field Station. Miami, Fla., from Garden No. 

 1803, tree B. Received November 3. 1913. 

 "A fruit resulting from the cross of S. P. I. No. 26731, Annona cherimola, ? , and S. 

 P. I. No. 267 11, Annona squamosa, $ . I made this cross in May, 1910. The work 

 was done between five and six o'clock in the evening, as you know squamosa pollen 

 is ripe at that time. The petals of the cherimola were forced open ami the pollen 

 dropped in." (Simmotids.) 



