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MEDICAGG LUPQLINA. (Fabaceas.) 31395. Seels of "black 

 medick from Foochow, China. Presented by Mr. T. M. Wilkinson. 

 "A plant with low growing stems, inclined to lie along the 

 ground and take root at the joints. Starts in new places 

 like white clever. Leaf about the size of white clover. 

 Blossom yellow." (Wilkinson.) For distribution later. 



MEDICAGO SP. (Fabaceae.) 31467. Seeds of alfalfa from 

 Q,uetta, Ir.dia. Secured by Mr. F. Booth Tucker, The Salvation 

 Am ... , ml , India, iron Mr. G. H. Frost, Sub-conductor, 

 Off f Military Farir, Quetta. For distribution later. 



MEDICAGO SP. (Fabaceae.) 51465. Seeds of alfalfa from 

 Jeolikote, Uniteci Provinces, India. Presented by Mr. Norman 

 Gill, Superintendent, Kumaun Government Gardens, Douglas 

 Dale, at the request of Rev. N. L. Rockey, Gonda, United 

 Province?.. For distribution later. 



MilCONOPSIS SIMPLICIFOLIA. (Papaveraceae. ) 31025. Seeds 

 from St. Petersburg Botanical Garden. Presented by th Q 

 Director. "A perennial herb with large blue-purple flowers 

 found on the subalpine slopes of the Himalayas at an eleva- 

 tion of 12000 ~o 14000 feet, in Nepal and Sikkim in northern 

 Indin." (Skeels.) Introduced with others of the genus for 

 trial, in the hope of finding a thoroughly hardy blue poppy, 

 and also for possible use in breeding work with the hardier 

 poppies already in cultivation. For distribution later. 



PERSEA AMERICANA. (Lauraceae.) 31381. Seeds of avocado 

 from Mexico. Secured on the market at Laredo, Texas, by Mr. 

 David Griffiths, of this Bureau. "A Mexican avocado. Only one 

 of the kind found. Brown-black in color. The outer skin, 

 hard, rather brittle, and easily peeled off from the edible 

 fleeh. Flavor good, flesh firm-" "(Griffiths.) For distribu- 

 tion later. 



PHELLODENDRON SACHALINENSE. (Rutaceae.) 30864. Seeds 

 from Sapporo, Japan, Presented by Prof. T. Minarni, Botanic 

 Garden. "Of the three species of this genus established in 

 the Arboretum, Phellodendron sachalinense is the handsomest. 

 All the species are natives of eastern Asia, and are small 

 trees with pinnate leaves, ^-mall clusters of inconspicuous 

 yellow flowers, the male and female flowers being produced on 

 different individuals, and black berry-like fruits; they have 

 bright yellow wood and roots, and all parts of these trees 

 are permeated with a fragrant aromatic oil which apparently 

 makes them immune from the attacks of insects. P. sachali- 

 nense, which is a native of Saghalin and the northern island 

 of Japan, has grown in the Arboretum into a tree about thirty 



