Inventory 44, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate X. 



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Plant of the Anyu, Tropaeolum tuberosum Ruiz and Pavon. a Peruvian 

 Mountain Root Crop. (See S. P. I. Nos. 41 185 and 41 186.) 



This rather dose relative of the ordinary nasturtium of our gardens is cultivated in the plateau region 

 of Tern forits tubers, which are eaten like po Oxalistubcrosa Molina Land ullucusi D /incus 



twberosui Calder), bul chiefly in the form of soups. The tubers are unusually good keepers, some 

 havingn ihed Washington in good condition in mid-September which were collected in earh; April. 

 Theyareofal lea i two forms, one with short coarse purple stripes mostly near the verj dee] 

 and the other with larger si ripe- of a lighter color. ( Photographed by G. B. Gilberl for the Yale- 

 National Geographic Society Peruvian Expedition, Sicuam, Peru, April 10, 1915; about one-fourth 

 natural size; P17749CA.) 



