90 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPOETED. 



18523 and 18524. Arachis hypogaea. Peanut. 



From Chepauk, Madras Presidency, South India. Presented by Mr. C. A. 

 Barber, government botanist. Received May 9, 1906. 



18523. Country groundnut. (C. A. B. No. 3153.) 



18524. Local Mauritius groundnut. (C. A. B. No. 3154.) 



18525 to 18529. Musa sapientum. Banana. 



From Manila, P. I. Presented by Mr. 'SV. S. Lyon, liorticulturist, Bureau of 

 Agriculture. Eeceived May 11, 1906. 



18525. Saba. 18528. Matabia. 



18526. Butuhan. 18529. Latundan. 



18527. Lacatan. 



18530. Raphidophora merrillii. 



From Manila, P. I. Presented by Mr. W. S. Lyon, horticulturist, Bureau of 

 Agriculture. Received May 11, 1906. 



18531 to 18534. Zea mats. Corn. 



From Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Presented by Mr. Elmer Stearns. Received 

 May 10, 1906. 



Four varieties of dent corn. 



18531. Maiz bianco {white com). 18533. Temporal. 



18532. Jaraleno. 18534. El Coahuileno. 



18535. AcTixiDiA CHixENSis. Yang taw. 



From Ruling, Kiukiang, Kiang-si, China. Presented bv Rev. Hugh W. White. 

 Received May 15, 1905. (See S. P. I. No. 11629, Inventory No. 11.) 



"The plant grows wild here, and is not known in the L'nited States; indeed, I 

 have seen it nowhere else in China. We find it a deUcious fruit with excellent 

 medicinal effect on the digestion. The place is about the latitude of Galveston, but 

 it is on a mountain 3,500 feet high and has a climate not unlike Virginia or North 

 Carolina. In winter there is an abundance of snow and ice. The subsoil is a poor, 

 stony, red soil, but is covered with a few inches of black wood earth. There is much 

 rainfall. The plant grows like a grape, and the fruit is single, between the size of a 

 hickory nut and a walnut, with a russet-looking green skin and a consistency much 

 like the green fig. If it can be cultivated it will make a valuable fruit." { White.) 



18536 and 18537. Chenopodium quinoa. Quinoa. 



From La Paz, Bolivia. Presented by Mr. Arthur L. Jackson, of the Andes 

 Trading Company. Received May 19, 1906. 



18536. 



Canana. A dark-seeded variety of poor quality. 

 18537. 



Common. A white-seeded variety most commonly grown. 



" I find that there are three kinds of quinoa commonly grown here, though one is 

 rather rare and hard to get. I am sending you samples of two varieties in this mail. 

 The third variety is the Qidnoa Real (or Roi/al Quinoa), which is a much taller 

 plant. Quinoa here is principally used by the Indians. They make various kinds 

 of foods and a drink out of it. The latter is called Cliirha and when fermented is 

 quite intoxicating. Chiclia is also made out of otiier ingredients, such as peanuts. 

 Quinoa is also much used as rice is used in soups, and the Indians make a dish out 

 of it which looks like a sort of watery nmsh or hominy, which is not bad to eat. 

 They also grind it up on a stone and make a kind of Indian bread, like coarse Gra- 



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