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SEEDS \M> PLANTS [MPOB I II'. 



Bitter cassava. 

 Uataoutel. 



21522 to 21529— Continued. 



21526 to 21528. MANIHOT DTILISSIMA. 



21526. Vioux Bwai. 21528. 



21527. Manioc s, ,■ HotS. 



21529. Mamiioi Bp. Cassava. 



■• Bitter kinds are always designated as Manioc; sweet as Cammanioo, 

 Of the Bweel kinds aenl Butter Sticks is considered a very good table 

 variety. 



" Neither In Venezuela nor here are the Bweel kinds grown tor starch, 

 sava bread, <>v farina; they are used only as ;i vegetable, being boiled 

 and buttered. Those who make a business <>t' cassava products say that 

 it does qoI pay to grow the sweet kinds." {Andri.) 



21532 to 21540. 



Prom Nagpur, Central Provinces, India. Presented i>\ Mr. F. Fletcher, 

 deputj director of agriculture, Bombay. Received October 28 and No- 

 vember •". 1007. 



21532. PANICUW PSILOl im. Millet. 



hut Li Raipur. 



21533. Pank i u PSILOPOOII vt. Millet. 

 Kutki. 



21534. Pisuu ABVBNS& Field pea. 

 Mattar. 



21535. V'iona < ITJANQ, Catjang. 

 Uurlniili. 



21536. VlGRA CATJANG. Catjang. 

 Burbodi. 



21537. \ 'ii.na i v.i i« i i \i a. Cowpea. 

 Jhungo. 



21538. VlGNA OATJANG (?). Catjang. 



■ IllUIKJU. 



21539. \'n n \ i u'.iam, (?). Catjang. 

 Khed Jhunga. 



21540. Panic i m FBUMENTACEUM. Millet. 

 8au>an or Sanwa. 



21542. Sesbania aegtptia* \. 



From Saharanpur, India. Presented by Mr. J. H. Maiden, director, Botanic 

 Gardens, Sydney. New South Wales, through Mr. David Fairchild. Re- 

 ceived November 7, 1907. 



"Africa, southern Asia, northern and central Australia, ranging to 33° north 

 in Afghanistan and 33° south on the Darling River, ascending to 4,000 feet 

 in the Himalayas. By Australian pasturalists called 'pea bush.' The foliage 

 of this tall perennial herb and of the allied annual »S'. brachycarpa serves as 

 fodder, which cattle are ravenously fond of. According to Mr. T. Gulliver, 

 the green pods, as well as the seeds, are nutritious, wholesome, and of pleasant 

 taste." i/-'. von Mueller.) 

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