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Descriptive notes furnished mainly by Agricultural 

 Explorers and Foreign Correspondents relative to such 

 newly introduced plants as have arrived during the month 

 at the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. These descriptions are revised and published 

 later in the Inventory of Plants Imported. 



Genera Represented in This Number. 



Acacia 



Achradelpha 



Amygdalus 



Belou 



Bombycodendron 



Canarium 



Cocops 



Cocos 



Coix 



Dillenia 



Dimocarpus 



Diospyros 



Eriobotrya 



Ferula 

 Lactuca 



PLATES: 



38524 



38478 



38469-470 



38389 



38486 



38372 



38588 



38428-434 



38473-476 



38383-384 



38374 



38482 



38496-497 



38568 



38633 



38657 



Mangif era 



Nunnezharia 



Passif lora 

 Persea 



Reinhardtia 



Rhododendron 



Soja 



Zea 



38379- 



38387 



38390- 



38403- 



38582 



38373 



38400- 



38477 



38549- 



38578, 



38583, 



38638- 



38558- 



38413 



38450- 



38544 



382 



391 

 404 



402 



" 



564 

 38581 

 38587 



640 



540 



462 



Macauba palms. Minas Geraes, Brazil. 

 The abiu, a Brazilian sapotaceous fruit. 

 Bamboo windbreak at Lavras, Brazil. 



(NOTE: Applications for material listed in these 

 multigraphed sheets may be made at any time to this Office. 

 As they are received they are filed, and when the material 

 is ready for the use of experimenters it is sent to those 

 on the list of applicants who can show that 

 pared to care for it, as well as to others 

 cause of their special fitness to experiment 

 ticular plants imported. 



One of the main objects of the Office of Foreign Seed 

 and Plant Introduction is to secure material for plant 

 experimenters, and it will undertake as far as possible to 

 fill any specific requests for foreign seeds or plants 

 from plant breeders or others interested.) 



they are pre- 

 selected be- 

 with the par- 



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