1127 



Sojamax (L.) Piper. (Fabaceae.) 44212. Soybeans 

 from Malanyii, Chihli province, China. Ch'ing tou, mean- 

 ing 'Green bean 1 . A green variety of soybean, often 

 used as an appetizer with meals, when slightly sprouted 

 and salted, or when fried and salted." (Meyer.) 



Vigna sinensis (Torner) Savi . (Fabaceae.) 44218. 

 Cowpeas from China. Collected by Mr. Frank N. Meyer. 

 "No ling tan chiang tou. meaning 'Wren's egg precious bean'. 

 A speckled variety of cowpea with white top. Cowpeas 

 are in great favor with the Chinese as a human food; 

 they are eaten boiled with rice, stewed in meat-dishes 

 and cooked in soups; they are believed to promote 

 speedy excretion of waste matter from the body." 

 (Meyer. ) 



Zea mays L. (Poaceae.) 44204. Seed corn from Ma- 

 lanyu, Chihli province, China. Collected by Mr. Frank 

 N. Meyer, November 25. 1916. "Yu mi, meaning 'Imperial 

 rice'. A large-grained, yellow flint maize, culti- 

 vated on rich bottom-lands in the mountains." (Meyer.) 



NOTES ON BEHAVIOUR OF PREVIOUS INTRODUCTIONS. 



Abelmoschus esculentus (33749) Okra. An Egyptian Va- 

 riety presented by Mr. E. A. Mcllhenny. Mrs. Anna 

 Breckwold of Hammond, Louisiana, in her letter of No- 

 vember 20, 1916, says: "No. 33749, okra, is the most 

 prolific strain I ever saw. It is certainly doing 

 well. I saved a great deal of seed as every one who 

 saw it wanted some." Mrs. J. W. Clark of Georgetown, 

 Texas, also says that the okra proved "all that the 

 description claimed for it. My plants were full of 

 pods when cut down by the freeze last week." 



Abelmoschus manihot (18580) This plant (from Peking, 

 China) is reported to have "flowered continuously with 

 the seed pods cut off; blooms enormous, open blossoms 

 were frozen on it." (Mrs. J. W. Clark, Georgetown, 

 Texas. ) 



Aleurites fordii (27518) Tung-oil tree from China. A 

 letter from Mr. F. D. Learning, Little Rock, Arkansas 

 November 14, 1916 states that his tung-oil tree re- 

 ceived in 1912 bore this year nearly a bushel of fruits 

 which made nearly a peck of nuts after the flesh was 

 removed. 



