74 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



37559. Amyodalus pedunculata Pallas. 



(Primus pedunculata Maxim.) 



From Chita, Transbaikal, Siberia. Presented by Mr. M. M. Timogowitsch. 

 Received March 14, 1914. 

 Distribution. — A shrub found in the region around Lake Baikal in south- 

 eastern Siberia and in northeastern Mongolia. 



37560 to 37562. Berbebis spp. Barberry. 



From Madrid, Spain. Presented by the curator, Botanic Garden, Madrid. 

 Received March 19, 1914. 



37560. Berbebis macbaca.ntha Schrader. 



37561. X Bebberis neubebti Lemaire. 



" This species of Berberis is a hybrid between Berberis aqui folium and 

 B. vulgaris. The branches are grayish brown, without spines, and up- 

 right. The leaves are simple, oval or ovate, sometimes with one or two 

 smaller leaflets. They are 1£ inches to 3 inches in length, spiny or 

 setulose dentate, and dark grayish green above. The flowers are borne 

 in racemes. This species of Berberis is hardy in the north, but the leaves 

 are not persistent." (Bailey, Cyclopedia of American Horticulture.) 



" The older leaves are alternate, solitary, evergreen, and in form, color, 

 and substance like those of the common holly. In the axils of some of 

 these are borne tufts of leaves resembling those of the common Berberis, 

 not only in their tufted arrangement, but also in their form, texture, 

 serration, and deciduous character. The leaves of the common Berberis, 

 however, are all simple, while many of these, are ternate, some palmately, 

 others pinnately so (i. e., the three leaflets are either stalked or sessile). 

 The holly like leaves we take to be exaggerated representatives of the 

 palmately divided spines that are commonly met with in the barberry. 

 A similar exaggeration of development is manifested in the ternate leaves. 

 We are indebted to Mi-. Nicholson for the identification of this Berberis 

 with that called in German nurseries B. neuberti X, which originated in 

 A. N. Baumann's nursery at Bollweiler, in Alsace, as an accidental cross 

 between the purple-leaved variety of B. vulgaris and the common Mahonia 

 (B. aquifolium). The explanation of the singular conformation of the 

 plant, with some of the leaves evergreen, others deciduous, is thus 

 furnished by its mixed parentage." (Gardeners' Chronicle, June 26, 1886.) 



37562. Berbebis sp. 



37563. Soja max (L.) Piper. Soy bean. 



(Glycine hispida Maxim.) 



From Songdo, Chosen (Korea). Presented by Rev. W. G. Cram, the Anglo- 

 Korean School. Received March 19, 1914. 



White Manchurian soy bean. 



37564 and 37565. Vigna spp. 



From Paris, France. Procured from Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co. Received 

 February 21, 1914. 



37564. Vigna cylindbica (Stickman) Skeels. Cowpea. 

 Received as Dolichos, long Tonkin bean. 



37565. Vigna sesqtttjpedaijs (L.) Fruwirth. Asparagus bean. 



" Received as extra long-podded Dolichos. This is a buff-seeded variety 

 of the asparagus or yard-long beau." (W. J. Morse.) 



