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  SEEDS 
  AND 
  PLANTS 
  IMPORTED. 
  

  

  29460. 
  Citrus 
  sp. 
  Mandarin. 
  

  

  From 
  Algiers, 
  Algeria. 
  Presented 
  by 
  Dr. 
  L. 
  Trabut. 
  Received 
  January 
  30, 
  

   1911. 
  

  

  "Mandarin 
  of 
  Canton. 
  Hybrid 
  of 
  Citrus 
  nobilis. 
  Fruit 
  bright 
  colored; 
  very 
  sweet, 
  

   ripens 
  in 
  January 
  in 
  Algiers." 
  ( 
  Trabut.) 
  

  

  29461. 
  Asparagus 
  sp. 
  Asparagus. 
  

  

  From 
  New 
  York, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Purchased 
  from 
  J. 
  M. 
  Thorburn 
  & 
  Co. 
  Received 
  Janu- 
  

   ary 
  26, 
  1911. 
  

  

  Variety 
  scandens 
  deflexus. 
  

  

  Procured 
  for 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  Office 
  of 
  Truck-Crop 
  Diseases 
  in 
  breeding 
  a 
  resistant 
  

   asparagus 
  and 
  also 
  various 
  forms 
  for 
  florists' 
  use. 
  

  

  29462. 
  Asparagus 
  stipularis 
  Forsk. 
  Asparagus. 
  

  

  From 
  Tunis, 
  North 
  Africa. 
  Presented 
  by 
  Mr. 
  L. 
  Guillochon, 
  director, 
  Jardin 
  

   d'Essais 
  de 
  Tunis. 
  Received 
  January 
  28, 
  1911. 
  

   See 
  No. 
  27163 
  for 
  previous 
  introduction. 
  

   Procured 
  for 
  the 
  same 
  breeding 
  experiments 
  as 
  No. 
  29461. 
  

  

  29464 
  to 
  29470. 
  

  

  From 
  Mexico. 
  Presented 
  by 
  Dr. 
  John 
  Gifford, 
  Cocoanut 
  Grove, 
  Fla., 
  through 
  

   Mr. 
  Peter 
  Bisset. 
  Received 
  January, 
  1911. 
  

   Seeds 
  of 
  the 
  following; 
  quoted 
  notes 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Gifford: 
  

  

  29464. 
  Bunchosia 
  biocellata 
  Schlecht. 
  

   " 
  Nanchi." 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  The 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Orizaba 
  in 
  southern 
  Mexico. 
  

  

  29465. 
  Crescentia 
  alata 
  H. 
  B. 
  K. 
  Calabash 
  tree. 
  

   ' 
  ' 
  This 
  tree 
  can 
  be 
  grown 
  outdoors 
  in 
  extreme 
  southern 
  Florida 
  and 
  southern 
  

  

  California. 
  The 
  outer 
  skin 
  of 
  the 
  fruit 
  is 
  removed 
  and 
  the 
  seeds 
  and 
  pulp 
  from 
  

   within, 
  and 
  the 
  hard 
  woody 
  shell 
  is 
  used 
  for 
  water 
  gourds 
  and 
  for 
  all 
  sorts 
  of 
  

   domestic 
  vessels, 
  according 
  to 
  size 
  and 
  shape." 
  {Extract 
  from 
  Bailey's 
  Cyclo- 
  

   pedia 
  American 
  Horticulture.) 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  Along 
  the 
  western 
  coast 
  of 
  Mexico 
  from 
  Mazatlan 
  to 
  Acapulco 
  

   and 
  in 
  Panama; 
  introduced 
  into 
  the 
  Philippine 
  Islands. 
  

  

  29466. 
  Ichthyomethia 
  piscipula 
  (L.) 
  Hitchcock. 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  Florida 
  and 
  Texas, 
  and 
  southward 
  through 
  Mexico 
  and 
  Cen- 
  

   tral 
  America 
  to 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Guayaquil, 
  Ecuador. 
  

  

  20467. 
  Piper 
  nigrum 
  L. 
  Pepper. 
  

  

  See 
  Nos. 
  5167 
  and 
  15681 
  for 
  previous 
  introductions. 
  

  

  29468. 
  (Undetermined.) 
  (Mimosacese.) 
  

   "A 
  beautiful 
  flowering 
  leguminous 
  tree." 
  

  

  29469. 
  (Undetermined.) 
  (Fabacese.) 
  

  

  "An 
  ornamental 
  shrub 
  having 
  racemes 
  of 
  golden-yellow 
  papilionaceous 
  

   flowers." 
  

  

  29470. 
  (Undetermined.) 
  

  

  "An 
  orange-colored 
  fruit 
  | 
  by 
  2 
  inches. 
  "- 
  

   233 
  

  

  