﻿40 SEEDS AND PLAXTS IMPORTED. 



Zoller. A medium-sized, dark-green chayote ; flat and broad pear shaped, 

 noncorrugated, and almost free from spines. 



46243 to 46248. 



From Buitenzorg, Java. Presented by Dr. P. J. S. Cramer, chief, Plant 

 Breeding Station. Received May 21, 1918. 

 Legumes grown for green manure. Introduced for experimentation by the 

 Office of Forage-Crop investigations. 



46243. Cassia patellaeia DC. Caesalpiniaceae. 



A low, herbaceous perennial with somewhat the appearance of our 

 common sensitive plant, Cassia nictitans. 



46244. Cassia ptjmila Lam. Caesalpiniaceae. 



A spreading, subshrubby forage plant with numerous spreading stems 

 about 1 foot long, distributed throughout tropical Asia and Australia 



46245. Ceotalaeia alata Buch.-Ham. Fabaceae. 



A suberect undershrub, 1 to 2 feet high, with the stem and underside 

 of the leaves covered with a short, silky pubescence. (Adapted from 

 .Hooker, Flora of British India, vol. 2, p. 69.) 



46246. Ceotalaeia usaeamoensis Baker f. Fabacese. 



A spreading, herbaceous forage plant from Usaramo, German East 

 Africa, closely allied to C. lanceolata. (Adapted from Journal of the 

 Linnean Society, vol. J^2, p. 346.) 



46247. Indigofeea sumateana Gaertn. Fabacese. Indigo. 

 This is the form of Indigofera tinctoria that was introduced from the 



East into the West Indies, and is the /. tinctoria of Lunan. If, therefore, 

 it be deemed necessary to give this plant a separate name and to remove 

 it from being one of the cultivated states of /. tinctoria L., then it will 

 have to be called I. iumatrana Gaertn. In addition to India (where it is 

 largely in use in the north from Bihar and Tirhut westward by north to 

 the Punjab) it also occurs in tropical Africa and Formosa. It may be dis- 

 tinguished from the southern form of I. tinctoria by its leaflets, which 

 are larger and ovate-oblong or oblong, instead of obovate or suborbicular. 

 The pods in I. sumatrana are also shorter, thicker, and blunter at the 

 apex, and are usually more numerous and straighter than in the Madras 

 form. (Adapted from Watt, Commercial Products of India, p. 663.) 



46248. Indigofeea suffeuticosa Mill. Fabaceae. 

 (/. anil L.) 



A copiously branched shrub, 3 to 5 feet high, with yellow pealike 

 flowers, commonly cultivated as a dye plant throughout the Tropics. Said 

 to be a native of tropical America. (Adapted from Oliver, Flora of Tropi- 

 cal Africa, vol. 2, p. 98.) 



46249 to 46259. 1 



From Sao Paulo, Brazil. Presented by Mr. Robert L. Reiser, American 

 consul. Received May 25, 1918. 



1 See footnote on page 19. 



