32 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



28610 and 28611. Anona spp. 



From Redland Bay, Queensland, Australia. Presented by Mr. James Collins. 

 Received August 2, 1910. 



Cuttings of the following: 



28610. Anona sp. 



"As far as I know this variety has never been named. It is a giant and far 

 superior to any of the other anonas. It often attains a weight of 6 pounds, 

 'being a veritable custard. ' It originated here about 30 years ago. " ( Collins.) 



28611. Anona cherimola Mill. Cherimoya. 



28612 and 28613. Mangifera indica L. Mango. 



From Poona, Bombay, India. Purchased from Mr. P. S. Kanetkar, superintend- 

 ent, Empress Botanical Gardens. Received August 4, 1910. 



Seeds of the following: 



28612. Pyrie. 28613. Kala Hapoos. 



28614 and 28615. Zea mays L. Corn. 



From the Kalahari, about 30 miles east of Kuruman, on the Kaapscheberg, South 

 Bechuanaland, Africa. Presented by Prof. J. Burtt Davy, government agros- 

 tologist and botanist, Transvaal Department of Agriculture, Pretoria, Transvaal, 

 South Africa. Received August 2, 1910. 

 Seeds of the following; notes by Prof. Davy: 



" White Botman flint maize. This seed was procured from a very dry region, of shal- 

 low limestone soil, cold and dry in winter. It struck me that these strains might do 

 for the extreme southwest of the corn belt of the United States (northwestern Texas). " 



28614. "Donovan's strain (red cob) has been grown by him without selection 

 or change of seed for 10 years, and came originally from a still drier region, 

 Daniels Kuil, at the southeast end of the Kuruman Hills." 



28615. "Mayer's strain, from the same vicinity as the preceding (S. P. I. 



No. 28614)." 



28616. Trichilia dregeana E. Meyer. 



From Durban, Natal, South Africa. Presented by Dr. J. Medley Wood, director. 

 Botanic Gardens. Received July 26, 1910. 



"A handsome evergreen shade tree." (Wood.) 



Distribution. — In woods in the vicinity of Durban in South Africa. 



See No. 9482 for previous introduction. 



28617. ViGNA UNGUicuLATA (L.) Walp. Cowpea. 



From Para, Brazil. Presented by Mr. Walter Fischer, acting director, Campo 

 de Cultura Experimental Paraense. Received August 4, 1910. 

 " Probably identical with the Blackeye variety; I grew them on the campo and har- 

 vested them just two months after sowing. This cowpea could hardly be called a 

 forage variety, at least not here in this soil, where it soon goes to seed, but bears 

 heavily." (Fischer.) 



28618 to 28625. 



From Russia. Received through Mr. Frank N. Meyer, agricultural explorer, 

 July 25, 1910. 

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