32 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



41455. Prunus sp. Amygdalacese. Plum. 



Plants from China. Collected by Mr. Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Ex- 

 plorer for the Department of Agriculture. Received at the Plant Intro- 

 duction Field Station, Chico, Cal., May 27, 1914. 



"(No. L193. Plants from Tsaoehowfu, Shantung, China, March 11, 1014.) A 

 flowering plum, much liked by the Chinese for forcing purposes. Generally 

 trained in grotesque shapes and always grafted on Amygdalus davidiana, as 

 the latter stands drought, transplanting, and neglect better than plums on their 

 own roots. Chinese name Mei." I \1< tier.) 



41456. Diospyros kaki L. f. Diospyracese. Persimmon. 



S<-ions from Glendora, Cal. Presented by Judge Charles Silent, through 

 Mr. Wilson Popenoe, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Received October 

 28, 1915. 



" In the fall of 1914, when in California, I visited Judge Silent's place and 

 became interested in this persimmon tree. The young twigs of all the branches 

 were bearing the old pedicels of staminate flowers in great numbers, but after 

 a careful search of the tree I could discover the remains of only three pedicels 

 of pistillate flowers. If this character should hold good (and we have reason 

 to believe it will), we have at last found the long-looked-for male Kalci per- 

 simmon tree, which should be planted in every orchard of Kaki persimmons as 

 a pollinator, for Prof. H. H. Hume has demonstrated that the lack of pollina- 

 tion is the cause of the immature fruits dropping." (Peter Bisset.) 



41457. Cucumis melo L. Cucurbitacese. Muskmelon. 



Frorn Petrograd, Russia. Seeds presented by Capt. N. A. McCully, naval 

 attache, American embassy, at the request of Mr. W. P. Cresson. Re- 

 ceived October 28, 1915. 

 " Seeds of a Tashkend Denia, a sort of large cantaloupe. At dinner we had 

 one of these melons and it w r as remarkably good, with a peculiar, delicious 

 flavor different from that of our own cantaloupe or from that of any other that 

 I know. The melons are brought here from the vicinity of Tashkend." 

 (McCully.) 



41458. Barleria cristata L. Acanthaceae. 



Cuttings from Manila, Philippine Islands. Presented by the director, 

 Department of Agriculture. Received November 1, 1915. 



"A Philippine hedge plant, the best in the Tropics. I think it never seeds 

 here." (O. W. Barrett.) 



An erect or diffuse acanthaceous undershrub with the branches and upper 

 surface of the leaves usually downy, with yellow hairs, and with dense, often 

 compound, ovate spikes of purple, blue, or white flowers. The corolla is about 

 1* inches long, the upper half funnel shaped and spreading into ovate lobes 

 one-half inch in length. Wild everywhere in the lower hills of northeastern 

 a*nd central India and probably in the mountains of southern India also. 

 (Adapted from Hooker, Flora of British India, vol. //, p. .' f 8S, 7.SS',.) 



41459. Morus nigra L. Moracese. Mulberry. 



Cuttings from Biggs, Cal. Procured from Mr. F. Haselbusch by -Mr. R. L. 

 Beagles to be grown at the Plant Introduction Field Station, Chico, Cal. 



"A very large, black, subacid mulberry. Said to be of Russian origin." 

 (J. E. Morrow.) 



