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100934. Citrus hystrix DC. 



100934 to 100941. 



From Guam. Seeds and scions presented by 

 S. R. Vandenberg, associate entomologist at the 

 Guam Agricultural Experiment Station, through 

 the director, C. W. Edwards. Received August 

 8, 1932. 



Rutaceae. 



Cabuyao. 



Seeds of a large thorny tree, 20 to 30 feet high, 

 with leaves 6 to 8 inches long. The fruits vary in 

 shape from oblate to pyriform-turbinate or oblong; 

 the smooth or more or less corrugated thick rind 

 is greenish lemon-yellow, and the greenish flesh 

 is juicy and sharply acid. The tree is said to be 

 resistant to the citrus canker. 



For previous introduction see 99321. 



100935. Mangifera indica L. Anacardiaceae. 



Mango. 



Seeds of the Carabao and Saigon mangoes. 



100936 to 100941. Persea 

 Lauraceae. 



AMERICANA Mill. 



Avocado. 



Nos. 100936 to 100938 were scions collected on the 

 ranch of T. Villagomez, near Barrigado. 



100336. No. 1. Largest tree west of ranch. 



100937. No. 2. Tree north of largest tree west 

 of ranch. 



100938. No. 3. Tree closest to the road near the 

 patrol quarters. 



100939. No. 4. Scions from a small tree east of 

 the mango trees at the ranch of Juan Taitano, 

 Barrigado. 



Nos. 100940 and 100941 were scions collected at 

 Dededo. 



100940. No. 5. From the ranch of Jose Lugan. 



100941. No. 6. From the ranch of Joe Tames. 

 100942 to 100944. Persea spp. Lau- 

 raceae. 



From Costa Rica. Scions collected by H. E. Stork, 

 professor of botany, Carleton College, North- 

 field, Minn. Received August 5, 1932. 



100942. Persea sp. 



Collected at 5,500 feet altitude between Station 

 Maria Dota and Estrella, Costa Rica. 



100943. Persea sp. 



The best native variety of aguacuate, from 

 Estrella, Costa Rica, at 4,800 feet altitude. 



100944. Persea sp. 



A red fruit collected July 23, 1932, at Estrella, 

 Costa Rica, at 5,000 feet altitude. 



100945 to 100947. Phaseolus vul- 

 garis L. Fabaceae. Common bean. 



From South America. Seeds collected by H. G. 

 MacMillan and CO. Erlanson, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. Received August 2, 1932. 



Locally grown varieties. 



100948 to 100950. 



From Honduras. Plants presented by Wilson 

 Popenoe, research department, United Fruit Co., 

 Tela. Received August 6, 1932. 



100948. Garcinia mangostana L. Clusiaceae. 



Mangosteen. 



100949. GuADUAANGUSTiFOLiAKunth. Poaceae. 



A giant bamboo, 60 to 90 feet tall, which grows 

 wild from Honduras to Paraguay. The slender 



100948 to 100950 — Continued. 



foliage is of great beauty, comparing with that of 

 ordinary trees as ostrich feathers do with goose 

 quills. The hollow culm is up to 6 inches in diam- 

 eter, with nodes as much as 20 inches apart, and 

 the wood is sometimes nearly an inch thick. The 

 branches are very thorny. 



100950. MUSA PARADISIACA SAPIENTUM (L.) 



Kuntze. Musaceae. Banana. 



A large commercial variety of good quality. 



100951. Sesamum capense Burm. f. 

 Pedaliaceae. 



From Africa. Seeds presented by Dr. I. B. Pole 

 Evans, chief, Bureau of Plant Industry, Pretoria, 

 Union of South Africa. Received August 4, 1932. 



Collected on the Springbok Flats in the Trans- 

 vaal, where the average annual rainfall is 4 inches. 

 An erect simple or branched herbaceous plant up 

 to 6 feet high, native to southern Africa. The leaves 

 are palmately divided into 3 to 5 ovate to linear 

 leaflets 1 to 3 inches long, and the tubular violet 

 flowers are 1 inch long; the lobes spread about 1 inch. 



100952. WlTHANIA SOMNIFERA (L.) 



Dunal. Solanaceae. 



From Africa. Seeds presented by D. C. Edwards, 

 Scott Agricultural Laboratories, Department of 

 Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya. Received August 

 4, 1932. 



An erect much-branched shrub with round stems 

 3 to 4 feet high, native to tropical Africa and India. 

 The oblong to obovate, slightly sinuate leaves are 

 2 to 3 inches long, and the small flowers, in axillary 

 clusters, are followed by globose berrylike fruits 

 one-fourth inch in diameter, surrounded by the 

 inflated calyx. In India the powdered fruit is used 

 as a vegetable rennet. 



100953. Phaseolus lunatus L. 

 Fabaceae. lima bean. 



From India. Seeds purchased through Winfield 

 H. Scott, American consul, Rangoon, Burma. 

 Received August 8, 1932. 



Burma butter. A native variety largely grown in 

 the vicinity of Rangoon. Introduced for compari- 

 son with types now being grown on the Pacific 

 coast. 



100954 to 100968. Antirrhinum spp. 

 Scrophulariaceae. Snapdragon. 



From Germany. Seeds presented by Dr. Erwin 

 Baur, Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fur Zuchtungs- 

 forschung, Miincheberg (Mark). Received 

 August 5, 1932. 



100954 and 100955. Antirrhinum glutinosum 

 Boiss. and Reut. 



100956. Antirrhinum hispanicum Chav. 



100957. Antirrhinum ibanjezi Hort. 



100958. Antirrhinum latifolium Mill. 

 100959 and 100960. Antirrhinum molle L. 



100961. Antirrhinum meonanthum Hoffm. 

 and Link. 



100962. Antirrhinum siculum Mill. 



100963. Antirrhinum tortuosum Bosc. 



100964. Antirrhinum valentinum Hort. 

 100965 to 100968. Antirrhinum spp. 



