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38866. Holcus sorghum verticielielorus (Steud.) Hitchc. 

 From Pretoria, Union of South Africa. Presented by Mr. I. B. Pole Evans, 



chief, Division of Botany, Department of Agriculture. Received July 

 24, 1914. 



"The seed of this plant matures very irregularly, and I fear much of this 

 seed was unavoidably collected immature. Out here it seems to thrive best 

 in moist clayey loam soils (riversides), but it is apt to become infested with 

 the maize stalk borer." (Evans.) 



38867. Oryza sativa L. Poacese. Rice. 



From Saloniki, Greece. Presented by Mr. G. Bie Ravndal, American consul 

 general, Constantinople. Received July 16, 1914. 



"Saloniki. European Turkey grows very little rice; since Macedonia has 

 been taken from the empire by the allied Balkan States, practically none at all. 

 Though all Constantinople was carefully searched for it, not a sample of any 

 sort of rice grown in Turkey in Europe could be obtained here. Inquiries made 

 of the British consul at Adrianople, charged with American interests, produced 

 no better uesult, and only from the American consul at Saloniki could any infor- 

 mation and a sample be secured at all. According to his reply to my request, 

 rice is grown in the region of Vodena, territory now belonging to Greece, 

 near Saloniki, the annual production of which is estimated at from 30 to 

 40 tons. Almost the entire yield is consumed in Vodena. Some 900 to 

 1,000 tons are grown in the region of Struuyntza and from 500 to 600 tons 

 in Ichtib, formerly forming a part of European Turkey and now under the 

 sovereignty of Bulgaria and Serbia, respectively. The crop grown at Ichtib 

 is considered of best quality. The soil of Vodena is ordinary earth through 

 which water runs continually. The season of sowing is April ; of harvesting, 

 October. The quantity of yield to the doniiru (which is equivalent to 1,600 

 square piks=S56.48 square yards) is from 300 to S00 okes (840.50 to 2,257.50 

 pounds) of unshelled rice. One hundred okes (2S2.19 pounds) will give from 

 50 to 55 okes (141 to 155.20 pounds) of shelled rice. It seems that a record of 

 the cost of production is not obtainable from the growers in these regions. The 

 produce is sold according to the prevailing market prices. From 8 to 10 okes 

 (22.50 to 28.20 pounds) of seed are necessary for one douiim (856.48 square 

 yards). Owing to the abundance of marshy ground essential for rice cultiva- 

 tion in the region of Vodena, the possibilities for the development of this indus- 

 try are considerable." (Ravndal.) 



8868 to 38880. Coix spp. Poacese. Job's-tears. 



From Burma, India. Presented by Mr. H. G. Carter, economic botanist to 

 the Botanical Survey of India, Indian Museum, Calcutta, India. Re- 

 ceived July 20, 1914. Quoted notes by Mr. Carter, except as otherwise 

 indicated. 

 38868 and 38869. Coix lackyma-jobi gigantka (Koenig) Stapf. 



38868. "Var. aquatica. No. 36288, from the district commissioner, 

 Pegu, Burma." 



38869. "Var. aquatica. No. 3(5289, from the district commissioner, 

 Pegu, Burma." 



8870. Coix LACRfMA-joiii stenocarfa (Oliver) Stapf. 

 "No. 36323, from (lie superintendent and political officer, Southern 

 hii States, Taungyi, Burma." 



