236 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



16765 to 16769. 



From the White House greenhouse, Public Buildings and Grounds, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. Received December 8, 1905. 



16765. Maranta splendida. 16768. Calathea roseo-picta. 



16766. Calathea arrecta. 16769. Calathea undulata. 



16767. Calathea makoyana. 



16770. Zka ]\rAYS. Sweet corn. 



From North Clarendon, Vt. Received thru Mr. D. Dana Hewitt, December 11, 

 1905. 

 White Malakof. Grown from S. P. I. No. 13256. (Lot "A" selected from No. 



16772.) 



16771. Medicago denticulata. Bur clover. 



From San Francisco, Cal. Received thru the Jessup-Wheelan Company, De- 

 cember 11, 1905. 



16772. Zea mays. S\veet corn. 



From North Clarendon, Vt. Received thru Mr. D. Dana Hewitt, December 11, 

 1905. 

 White Malaknf. Grown from S. P. I. No. 13256. 



16773 to 16780. 



From St. Louis, Mo. Received thru Mr. Fred Mueller, of the Missouri Botan- 

 ical Gardens, December 11, 1905. 



16773. Alocasia macrorhiza 16777. Colocasia indica. 



variegata. 



From Ceylon. 



16774. Alocasia odora 

 From East Indies. 



16778. Xanthosoma sp. 

 From Cuba. 



16779. Xanthosoma viola- 



CEUM. 



16775. Colocasia sp. p^^,,^^ ^y^^^^ j^^^j^^^ 



From Mexico. 



16776. Colocasia antiquorum 

 euchlora. 



From India. 



16780. (Undetermined.) 



16781 to 16784. Zea mays. Sweet corn. 



From North Clarendon, Vt. Received thru Mr. D. Dana Hewitt, December 11, 

 1905. 



White Malakof. 



16781. (;rown from S. P. I. No. 13357. 



16782. Grown from selection "B" of S. P. I. No. 13256. 



16783. Grown from selection "G" of S. P. I. No. 13256. 



16784. Grown from selection "C" of S. P. I. No. 13256. 



16785. Hibiscus sabdariffa. Roselle. 



From Mayaguez, P. R. Received thru the Porto Rico Experiment Station, 

 December, 1905. 



16786. Eucalyptus corymbosa. Bloodwood. 



From Bowen, North Queensland, Australia. Received thru Mr. William Petti- 

 grew, of the Queensland Acclimatization Society, December 6, 1905. 

 "One of the numerous species of Australian eucalyptus. A tree of medium size, 

 with persistent flaky bark, often reported as stunted or shrubby in ajipearance, but 



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