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293170 to 293195— Continued 



293192. Agave sp. 



Col. No. 20265. Local name: Espadin. Roadside, 6 km. east of Oaxaca 

 de Juarez. Plants many leaved, radial, suckering; rosettes green; leaves 

 swordlike, stiff, long ; teeth heavy, black. 



293193. Agave sp. 



Col. No. 20273. Local name: Maguey del Cumbre. Roadside, 22 km. 

 beyond Ixtlan, road to Tuxtepec, Oaxaca. Elevation 2,900 meters. Plants 

 large, glaucous green (the largest wild agave seen by the collector), form- 

 ing seedling population on rocky, forested slope; leaves wide, ascending, to 

 2 meters long and 40 cm. wide; peduncle thick, to 10 meters high, with 12 

 to 18 short laterals. Densely fruited, now in bud. 



293194. Agave sp. 



Col. No. 20348. Local name: Capulixtl. Twenty-two miles southwest 

 of Tehuacan along road to Huajuapan, Puebla. Elevation 1,750 meters. 

 Rosettes mostly single, radial, green with ascending straight plane leaves; 

 spike with short umbellate branches 5 meters high with open capsules. 



293195. Manfred sp. Amaryllidaceae. 



Col. No. 20270. Along road to Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, 10 km, east of Ixtlan. 

 Elevation 2,300 meters. Plant rosette; leaves few, small, narrow, spotted 

 or unspotted; peduncle long, with short terminal racemes; flowers purple. 



293196. Myristica fragrans Houtt. Myristicaceae. 



Common nutmeg. 



From Indonesia. Seeds presented by the Agricultural Attache, Djakarta. 

 Received Oct. 11, 1963. 



Received from an exporter in Surabaja, P. T. "Amersal" Tjabang Sura- 

 baja, Djalan Gambir No. 15. 



293197 to 293199. 



From Thailand. Plants presented by the United States Embassy, Bangkok. 

 Received Oct. 16, 1963. 



293197. Acroceras macrum Stapf Poaceae. 



No. K 106. Local name: Nilegrass. Well adapted at Bangkhen. 



293198. Dichanthium aristatum (Poir.) C. E. Hubb. Poaceae. 



Angleton grass. 



'Alabang X'. No. K 119. Well adapted at Bangkhen. 



293199. Digitaria sp. Poaceae. 



Local name: Zacate grass. No. K 107. Well adapted at Bangkhen. 



293200 to 293293. Beta vulgaris L. Chenopodiaceae. Beet. 



From Great Britain. Seeds presented by O. D. Hunt, Torpoint, Cornwall, 

 England. Received Oct. 17, 1963. 



293200 to 293219. Looe numbers 



293200. 



No. 1. 



293201. 



No. 2. 



293202. 



No. 3. 



293203. 



No. 4. 



293204. 



No. 5. 



293205. 



No. 6. 



293206. 



No. 7. 



293207. 



No. 8. 



293208. 



No. 9. 



293209. 



No. 



10. 



293210. 



No. 



11. 



293211. 



No. 



12. 



293212. 



No. 



13. 



293213. 



No. 



14. 



293214. 



No. 



15. 



293215. 



No. 



16. 



293216. 



No. 



17. 



293217. 



No. 



18. 



