50 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



19779 to 19784— Continued. 



19783. HORDEUM VULGARE. 



Gutekorn. 



19784. HORDEUM VULGARE. 



Sexradigt. 

 19789. Vangueria infausta. Wild medlar. 



From Pretoria, Transvaal. Presented by Prof. J. Burtt Davy, botanist, 

 Transvaal Department of Agriculture. Received February 4, 1907. 



" Seed of an edible fruit with flavor of a medlar. Grows mostly in frostless 

 parts of the Transvaal on stony hillsides. " (Davy.) 



19790 to 19792. Kennedya spp. 



From Sydney, New South Wales. Presented by Hon. Walter S. Campbell, 

 director, Department of Agriculture. Received January 19, 1907. 



19790. Kennedya monophylla. 



19791. Kennedya prostrata. 



19792. Kennedya rubicunda. 



19795 and 19796. 



From Reykjavik, Iceland. Preseuted by Prof. Thorhallur Bjarnarson, 

 president, Icelandic Agricultural Society. Received February 2, 1907. 



Seeds for introduction into Alaska. 



19795. Brassica rapa. Turnip. 



" The turnip is cultivated in Iceland a good deal for human food, and 

 it is about the only plant which produces seed there. This seed, orig- 

 inally from Norway, is of a good sort and has been cultivated for about 

 twenty years in Iceland." (Bjarnarson.) 



19796. Festuca rubra. Red fescue. 



19797. Xanthosoma sp. Yautia. 



From Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama. Received through Mr. Henry F. Schultz 

 February 9, 1907. 



Mr. Schultz calls this species X. atrovirens. 



19798. Musa sapientum. Banana. 



From Manila, P. I. Presented by Mr. W. S. Lyon, of the Bureau of Agri- 

 culture, February 11, 1907. 



Bungulan. 



19799. Chaetochloa sulcata. 



From Pretoria, Transvaal. Presented by Prof. J. Burtt Davy, botanist, 

 Transvaal department of agriculture. Received February 6, 1907. 



"A most useful pasture and hay grass for partially shaded woodland. It is 

 sensitive to frost. It is variously called Natal Buffel and Bush Buffel grass. 

 It is also an ornamental grass worth cultivating in gardens in forestless 

 regions." (Davy.) 

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