PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



101164 to 101168— Continued 



produces 5 to 8 glaucous green leaves 12 to 18 inches 

 long and a scape 1 to 2 feet high, bearing a 6- to 

 12-flowered raceme of fragrant white flowers. 

 The pistil is black and adds to the attractiveness 

 of the flowers. This species is very popular for 

 pot culture. 



101168. Tulipa hageri Heldr. Liliaceae. Tulip. 



Bulbs of a tulip with a flowering stem about a 

 foot high which bears a single flower up to 2 inches 

 long. The perianth segments are brownish on the 

 outside and intensely scarlet within. The 3 or 

 4 leaves are narrow and grooved. Native to the 

 mountains of Greece. 



101169. Tragopogon sp. Cichoria- 

 ceae. 



From Turkistan . Seeds presented by the Tuggourt 

 Botanic Garden. Received October 7, 1932. 



101170. Crocus sieberi J. Gay. Iri- 

 daceae. 



From Greece. Seeds presented by Prof. P. Th. 

 Anagnostopoulos,Ecole Superieure d' Agriculture, 

 A%hens. Received October 8, 1932. 



A bulbous perennial, native to Greece, with 4 to 

 6 linear-lanceolate leaves, glaucous beneath, and 

 lilac flowers with a yellow glabrous throat. The 

 orange anthers are twice as long as the filaments, 

 and the orange-red style branches are nearly entire. 



101171. Allium cepa L. 



Liliaceae. 

 Onion. 



From India. Seeds presented by the director of 

 agriculture, Imperial Institute of Agricultural 

 Research, Pusa. Received October 8, 1932. 



Introduced for breeding studies of Department 

 and experiment-station workers. 



101172. Acer sieboldianum micro- 

 phyllum Maxim. Aceraceae. Mapie. 



From Amherst, Mass. Seeds from trees growing on 

 the campus of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, presented by Prof. L. L. Blundell. Re- 

 ceived October 8, 1932. 



A shrub or small tree, native to Japan, with 7- to 

 9-lobed leaves only 2 inches broad. The small yel- 

 lowish flowers are borne on nodding peduncles and 

 the winged fruits, less than an inch long, spread at 

 an obtuse angle. 



101173 to 101175. 



From France. Plants purchased from V. Lemoine 

 & Sons, Nancy. Received October 11, 1932. 



101173. Thamnocalamus sp. 

 Hort.). 



(Bambusa gracilis 

 Bamboo. 



A somewhat tender bamboo of the Himalayas, 

 very similar to Thamnocalamus falcata. The thin 

 leaves are linear-lanceolate, and the ligules of the 

 sheaths are rather prominent. The slight purple 

 coloring of the sheath extends around the finely 

 serrulate margin of the blade. The blade is very 

 slightly cross-veined. The genus Thamnocalamus 

 is closely allied to Arundinaria and is often con- 

 sidered as only a section of the latter. 



101174. Sasa disticha (Mitf.) E. G. Camus 

 (Bambusa nana Hort.). Poaceae. Bamboo. 



A dwarf bamboo of running habit growing 3 to 5 

 feet high, with rather narrow leaves 2 to 4 inches 

 long, in pronouncedly distichous arrangement. 



101175. Shibataea kumasasa (Zoll.) Makino 

 (Bambusa viminalis Hort.). Poaceae. Bamboo. 



This odd little bamboo, which in the past has 

 carried several different botanical names and 

 which looks but little like a bamboo, grows 2 to 6 

 feet in height. The branches, usually five in 



101173 to 101175— Continued 



number, are diminutive, and each bears a single, 

 terminal, ovate-lanceolate, dark-green leaf 2 to 3 

 inches long and nearly an inch wide. The foliage 

 is more or less injured at temperatures of 5° to 10° 

 F. 



101176 to 101179. 



From Africa. Seeds presented by Charles S. Dol- 

 ley, Bahamas Plantations Co., Ltd., Nassau, 

 New Providence Island, Bahamas, British West 

 Indies. Received October 7, 1932. 



A collection of seeds from the National Botanical 

 Gardens at Kirstenbosch, Cape Colony, Union of 

 South Africa. 



101178 to 101178. Aloe spp. Liliaceae. 



101176. Aloe krapohliana Marloth. 



A small aloe with a basal rosette of 20 to 30 

 leaves each about 4 inches long and armed with 

 very numerous small white teeth. The brick- 

 red flowers are on a scape 18 inches high. 



101177. Aloe longisttla Baker. 



A stemless southern African perennial with a 

 dense rosette of about 30 lanceolate green leaves 

 6 inches long tapering to a horny point and hav- 

 ing a pale-brown prickly margin. The bright- 

 red tubular flowers are borne in a dense raceme 

 3 to 5 inches long. 



101178. Aloe schlechteri Schoenl. 



An aloe with olive-green leaves about 8 inches 

 long, armed on the margin with brown horny 

 deltoid prickles. The light-yellow flowers, on 

 short pedicels, are in dense racemes about 6 

 inches long. 



For previous introduction see 98010. 



101179. Thryallis gracilis (Bartl.) Kuntze; 

 Malpighiaceae. 



A shrub, native to Central America and natural- 

 ized in the West Indies. The narrowly elliptical- 

 leaves are 1 to 2 inches long, and the yellow flow- 

 ers, 1 inch across, are borne in ample panicles. 



101180. Citrus sp. Rutaceae. 



From French Indo-China. Seeds presented by M. 

 Poilane, Arboretum de Erang Bom, Province de 

 Bienhoa, Cochinchina. Received October 12, 

 1932. 



101181 to 101184. 



Poaceae. 



AVENA SATIVA L. 



Oats. 



From Scotland. Seeds presented by William 

 Robb, director of research, Scottish Society for 

 Research in Plant-Breeding, Craigs House, Cor- 

 storphine, Edinburgh. Received October 12,. 

 1932. 



101188. Potato. 

 101184. Tarn Finlay. 



101181. Bell. 



101182. Elder. 



101185 and 101186. 



From Australia. Seeds presented by the Botanic 

 Gardens, Darwin, Northern Territory. Received 

 October 12, 1932. 



101185. Alysicarpus vaginalis (L.) DC. Faba- 



An annual legume from 3 to 6 feet high. Under 

 favorable circumstances it may be cut 2 or 3 times 

 a season. 



101186. Stylosanthes mucronata Willd. Fa- 

 baceae. 



A much-branched undershrub, 1 to 2 feet high, 

 native to southern Asia and tropical Africa. The 

 rigidly coriaceous trifoliolate leaves have oblong 

 leaflets about one half inch long, and the incon- 

 spicuous flowers are in small dense heads. Of" 

 possible value as a forage crop. 



