40 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38868 to 38880— Continued. (Quoted notes by Mr. H. G. Carter.) 



38871 to 38874. Coix lauiym a-joi-.i ma-yukn (Romanet) Stapf. 



"From the superintendent and political officer, Southern Shan States, 

 Taungyi, Burma." 



38871. No. 36324. 38873. No. 30320. 



38872. No. 30325. 38874. No. 30327. 



"The fully cultivated and edihle form. Mayuen, is grown (so far 

 as India is concerned) in the Central Provinces, Sikkim. the Khasi 

 Hills, Burma, and the Shan States, and outside of India it appears 

 to he cultivated in Tonkin, China, ami the Malaya, hut apparently 

 nowhere else. In the elongated seinipyriform states of cultivated 

 C. hieryma-jobi there is a further peculiarity, viz, a portion at the 

 base of the fruit spathe becomes constricted into a weil-marked 

 annular disk. The condition with a soft and striated shell and basal 

 annulus appears to constitute the variety known to botanists as 

 Mayuen, a name given in honor of the Chinese general who is sup- 

 posed to have first pointedly directed attention to the plant." (Watt, 

 Commercial Products of India, which see for discussion of the plant 

 as a crop.) 



38875 to 38880. 



"From the superintendent and political officer, Southern Shan States, 



Taungyi, Burma." 



38875. Coix lacryma-jobi stenocarpa (Oliver) Stapf. 



No. 36328. 



" In the variety known as stenocarpa the capsular spathe is elon- 

 gated until it becomes cylindrical, hut when cultivated the tubes (so 

 formed) change in color to chalky white or become almost straw 

 colored." (Watt, Commercial Products of India.) 



38876. Coix lacryma-jobi L. 

 No. 36329. 



38877 to 38879. Coix lacryma-jobi ma-yvex (Romanet) Stapf. 



38877. No. 36331. 38879. No. 36333. 



38878. No. 36332. 



38880. Coix LACRYMA-JOBI L. 



"No. 36339. This shows a transitional form of variety stenocarpa 

 passing into variety monilifer." 



"The flattened spheroidal form, the connecting link between C 

 lacryma-jobi and var. stenocarpa, is the special bead form. It is 

 wild plaid met with chiefly in Burma, the Malaya, China, a I 

 Japan, and has been named by me var. monilifer:' (Watt, Comtrf- 

 cial Products of India.) 



38881 and 38882. Passiflora maliformis L. Passifloraceae. 



Passion frit. 



From Bogota. Colombia. Presented by Mr. T. A. Thomson, Amhan 



minister, who obtained them from .Mr. :•". L. Rockwood, clerk the 



legation, Bogota. Received July 24, 1914. Quoted notes by Mrftock- 



wood. 



