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208488 to 208523— Continued 



208516. No. 29. 208520. No. 33. 



208517. No. 30. 208521. No. 34. 



208518. No. 31. 208522. No. 35. 



208519. No. 32. 208523. No. 36. 



208524 to 208526. Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. Convolvulaceae. 



Sweetpotato. 



From Cuba. Roots collected by D. S. Correll and J. C. Miller, Agricultural 

 Explorers, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultrual Engineer- 

 ing-, Beltsville, Md. Received May 14, 1953. 



208524. No. 184. Boniato Amarillo. Market, Cardenas, Matanzas. Skin 

 dark reddish purple; flesh rich cream colored. Apr. 18, 1953. 



208525. No. 279. Choricera. Roblar Maata, Pinar del Rio. Skin light 

 pink; flesh white. Apr. 28, 1953. 



208526. No. 280. Negro Parado. Pinar del Rio. Skin red; flesh white. 

 Apr. 28, 1953. 



208527 to 208531. 



From Mexico. Roots collected by H. S. Gentry, Agricultural Explorer, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, Belts- 

 ville, Md. Received May 14, 1953. 



Collected in Veracruz, Apr. 24 and 25, 1953. 



208527 and 208528. Dioscorea composita Hemsl. Dioscoreaceae. 



208527. No. 12582. Four miles west of Martinez de la Torre. 



208528. No. 12588. Sixty miles east of Huauchinango. 



208529. Dioscorea sp. 



No. 12587. Twenty miles southwest of Tihuatlan along road to Huau- 

 chinango. 



208530. Dioscorea sp. 



No. 12588A. Sixty miles east of Huauchinango. 



208531. Dioscorea sp. 

 (No field notes.) 



208532. Camellia sp. Theaceae. 



From Japan. Cuttings collected by Eikichi Satomi, Higashi-Kanbara-Gori, 

 Niigata Prefecture. Received May 15, 1953. 



Received as Camellia rusticana, an apparently unpublished name. 



208533 to 208536. 



From Puerto Rico. Roots collected by D. S. Correll and J. C. Miller, Agri- 

 cultural Explorers, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural 

 Engineering, Beltsville, Md. Received May 18," 1953. 



208533. Ipomoea sp. Convolvulaceae. 



No. 341. Buena Vista Camp, Maricao Forest. May 6, 1953. 



208534 to 208536. From Toro Negro National Forest. May 8, 1953. 



208534. Ipomoea sp. 

 No. 371. 



208535. Ipomoea sp. 

 No. 372. 



208536. Ipomoea sp. 

 No. 373. 



