62 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



40650 to 40669— Continued. (Quoted notes by Mr. F. N. Meyer.) 



made, usually with flour from wheat, barley, or oats added. The 

 inferior qualities are used as feed for hard-working domestic animals. 

 Chinese name Ta ton, meaning 'big bean.' Of value for the more ele- 

 vated sections of the United States as a summer crop. As a winter crop, 

 they thrive well in all such sections where there are no heavy frosts." 

 40656 to 40660. Soja max (L.) Piper. Fahaceie. Soy bean. 



{Glycine hispida Maxim.) 



40656. "(No. 2190a. Yangpingkwan, Shensi, China. September 10, 

 1914.) A small-seeded variety of soy bean, of greenish color, 

 grown along the edges of submerged rice fields. Of value possibly 

 as an aftercrop for moist lands in the southern United States." 



40657. "(No. 2191a. Yangpingkwan, Shensi, China. September 10, 

 1914.) A very small-seeded variety of soy bean, of yellow color, 

 grown along the edges of submerged rice fields. Of value possibly 

 as an aftercrop for moist lands in the southern United States." 



406&8. "(No. 2192a. Yangpingkwan, Shensi, China. September 10, 

 1914.) A very small-seeded variety of the soy bean, of black color. 

 Said to be of somewhat twining habit and growing on drier lands 

 than the preceding numbers [S. P. I. Nos. 40656 ami 40657]". 



40659. "(No. 2193a. Siku, Kansu, China. November 19. 1914.) 

 Mixed green and yellow seeded varieties of soy beans of nonshat- 

 tering habits. Grown on warm, dry mountain terraces under 

 decidedly semiarid conditions. Of value possibly for the south- 

 western United States more specifically." 



40660. "(No. 2194a. Lanchowfu, Kansu. China. December 15, 

 1914.) Mixed brown and yellow seeded varieties of soy beans; not 

 grown locally, but probably coming from Shensi." 



40661. Pisum akvexse L. Fabacese. Field pea. 

 "(No. 2195a. Yangpingkwan, Shensi. China. September 10. 1914.) 



Gray field peas, much grown as a winter crop in the milder sections of the 

 Yangtze and Yellow River basins: also as a summer crop in the cooler 

 mountain sections of western Kansu. They are much fed to hard-working 

 domestic animals, preferably broken up coarsely and mixed with chopped 

 Straw of proso, bird's millet, and even kaoliang. A very palatable starch 

 is also made from them, looking like blancmange, which is much eaten 

 cold in summer, sprinkled over with some vinegar and chili-pepper sauce. 

 Chinese name Wan ton." 



40662. PlSTACIA CHINENSIS Bunge. Anacardiaceae. Pistache. 

 "(No. 2196a. Near Kuanyintang, between Paoki and Fenghsien, Shensi. 



China. September 15, 1914.) A beautiful and characteristic Chinese 



pistache tree, having graceful, pinnate foliage, which when )u<\ coining 

 out is of wine-red color, then becomes uiossy green, while toward fall 

 it turns to flaming scarlet, purple, and yellow hues. The tree is dioecious, 

 the males becoming larger and taller than the females, lives to be sev- 

 eral centuries old, and can reach truly enormous sizes when very old 

 and when located in a good situation. A tree near the village of Tsai- 

 kiapu, Shensi Province, has a girth of 16 feet at 5 feet above ground. Of 

 value as a graceful park and avenue tree, especially for the milder semi- 

 arid sections of the United States." 



