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44591 to 44.595— Continued. 



as storax is obtained from this shrub by bruising the stem. Hardy in 

 the southern United States. (Adapted from Bean, Trees and Shrubs 

 Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, pp. 559, 560, and from Bailey, Standard 

 Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 6, p. 3280.) 



44594. Styrax veitchiorum Hemsl. and Wils. 



A small tree, 12 to 15 feet high, with lanceolate, taper-pointed, thin, 

 downy leaves, 3 to 5 inches long ; and slender panicles of white flowers 

 nearly an inch across, produced in groups at the ends of shoots from 

 the uppermost leaf axis. Native to central China. It is hardy at Veitch's 

 Nursery, Coombe Wood, England. (Adapted from Bean, Trees and 

 Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, rol. 2, p. 560.) 



44595. Styrax wilsonii Render. 



A very ornamental deciduous shrub, native to western China, 6 to 10 

 feet high, twiggy and much branched, with ovate, green leaves half an 

 inch to an inch long, usually entire, but sometimes with the ends three 

 lobed or sparsely toothed. The solitary, nodding flowers are pure glisten- 

 ing white, five-eighths to three-quarters of an inch wide, produced in June 

 on short stalks from the leaf axils. The shrub is remarkable in that it 

 begins to flower when only a few inches high and 2 or 3 years old. It is 

 probably hardy as far north as Philadelphia. (Adapted from Bean, 

 Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 560, and from 

 Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 6, p. 3279.) 



44596. Prosopis chilensis (Molina) Stuntz. Mimosacese. 



(P. juli flora DC.) Algaroba. 



From Oran, Salta, Argentina. Presented by Mr. S. W. Damon. Received 

 April 19, 1917. 



" Late-fruiting black and white Algarobas from the district at the junction 

 of the Provinces of Salta, Catamarca, and Tucuman." {Damon.) 



See S. P. I. Nos. 44434 and 44435 for previous introduction and description 

 of the black and white varieties of the Algaroba. This introduction is a mix- 

 ture of the two. 



44597 to 44599. Soja max (L.) Piper. Fabacese, Soy bean. 



{Glycine hispida Maxim.) 



From Japan. Presented by Rev. Christopher Noss, Wakamatsu, Iwashiro, 

 Japan. Received April 23, 1917. 



" Under date of November 24, 1916, you asked that I should obtain for 

 you a quantity of the Hato-koroshi-daizu soy bean for experimental planting. I 

 inquired at Kawamata, the town where I first found this variety, and asked 

 our Japanese pastor to make a thorough search. No one could be found who 

 knew anything about a bean called Hato-koroshi-daizu or who could exactly 

 match the sample. Finally the pastor sent me 6 quarts of a variety which, 

 he said, seemed to be about the same. This variety is called Uba-no-kantsu- 

 bushi (nurse's mastication), referring to its flattened shape, as though mashed 

 between the teeth of a nurse for a little child. (Japanese mothers and nurses 

 are accustomed to masticate food that is hard before feeding it to their little 

 ones. ) 



" I appealed to another of my Japanese workers, who is a graduate in agri- 

 culture and has served the Government as an agricultural expert. He undertook 



