164 PLANT INVENTORY NO. 163 



227154 to 227157— Continued 



227157. Ormosia sp. 



Col. No. 602. Collected north of old entrance to Corozal Cemetery, Canal 

 Zone, May 19, 1955. Tree to 35 feet high. 



227158 to 227161. 



From Korea, Seeds presented by the Central Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Suwon. Received July 20, 1955. 



227158 to 227160. Glycine max (L.) Merr. Fabaceae. Soybean. 



227158. 'Changtan' (white). 



227159. 'Chungbuk' (white). 



227160. 'Kumgang' (large grain). 



227161. Lespedeza striata (Thunb.) Hook. & Arn. Fabaceae. 



227162. (Undetermined). 



From Ethiopia. Seeds collected by J. L. Stephens, Agricultural Explorer, Plant 

 Introduction Section, Horticultural Crops Research Branch, Beltsville, Md. 

 Received July 20, 1955. 



Col. No. 379. Market, Addis Ababa. May 17, 1955. Said to be a vermifuge. 



227163. Clitoria ternatea L. Fabaceae. Asian pigeon wings. 



From the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Seeds presented by the Sudan Gezira Board, 

 Barakat. Received July 20, 1955. 



227164 to 227188. 



From Japan. Plants and bulbs collected by J. L. Creech, Agricultural Explorer, 

 Plant Introduction Section, Horticultural Crops Research Branch, Beltsville, 

 Md. Received July 21, 1955. 



Collected July 14 to 16, 1955. 



227164. ArcuBA japonica var. borealis Miyabe & Kudo Cornaceae. 



Japanese aucuba. 



Col. No. 222. 'Hime-aoki'. Tsuchiyu-koge, Fukushima Prefecture. Elevation 

 1,400 meters. Evergreen shrub; leaves ovate, prominent teeth on margins. 



227165. Chiogenes japonica A. Gray Ericaceae. Pearlberry. 



Col. No. 239. 'Harigane Kazura'. Subalpine zone between Makugawa Onsen 

 and Toriko-duira. Elevation 1,600 meters. Low prostrate plant with pale 

 greenish-white flowers. 



227166. Dioscorea japonica Thunb. Dioscoreaceae. Yam. 



Col. No. 247. 'Yamano-imo'. Near Nunryu, Fukushima. Elevation 800 

 meters. Vine with cordate leaves which have purple edges. Tuber is vertical. 



227167. Empetrum nigrum var. japonicum K. Koch Empetraceae. 



Col. No. 238. 'Gankoran'. Subalpine zone between Makugawa Onsen and 

 Toriko-duira. Elevation 1,600 meters. Low prostrate shrub; leaves small, linear. 



227168. Epigaea Asiatic a Maxim. Ericaceae. Asiatic trailing-arbutus. 



Col. No. 232. Twa-nashi'. Subalpine zone between Makugawa Onsen and 

 Toriko-duira. Elevation 1,600 meters. Prostrate evergreen shrub; leaves larger 

 than E. repens; flowers pink, tubular, May. 



227169. Gaultheria adenothrix (Miq.) Maxim. Ericaceae. 



Col. No. 240. Twahaze'. Subalpine zone between Makugawa Onsen and Toriko- 

 duira. Elevation 1,600 meters. Small evergreen shrub; stems red; leaves ovate; 

 flowers white; calvx red. 



