OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1932 



101187. Sesamum orientale L. Pe- 

 daliaceae. Sesame. 



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

 Scott Agricultural Laboratories, Nairobi, Kenya. 

 Received October 13, 1932. 



Black Sim-Sim. Collected in the coast region of 

 Kenya, and introduced for the use of Department 

 specialists working with drug plants. 



101188. (Undetermined.) 



Prom Peru. Seeds collected by H. G. MacMillan 

 and C. O. Erlanson, Bureau of Plant Industry. 

 Received July 12, 1932. Numbered in October 

 1932. 



No. 198. Collected April 16, 1932, at Rio Colorado, 

 near Merced, Peru, at 2,800 feet altitude. A legu- 

 minous shrub up to 4 feet high, with flowers which 

 vary from white to light violet. 



101189. Dioscorea alata L. Dios- 

 coreaceae. Winged yam. 



Prom Australia. Tubers presented by J. A . Hamil- 

 ton, Carbesen via Cairns, North Queensland. 

 Received October 17, 1932. 



Tubers generally cylindrical, with reddish inner 

 skin and white flesh partly colored with red-purple. 

 It is a good table variety, very prolific, and has 

 proved well adapted to the dry conditions of queens- 

 land, where there is a short wet season from about 

 Christmas to the beginning of March, and the re- 

 mainder of the year has very little rain. 



101190 to 101193. 



From Manchuria. Seeds purchased from L. Ptit- 

 sin, Harbin. Received October 13, 1932. 



101190. Crataegus sp. Malaceae. Hawthorn. 



101191. Ribes sp. Grossulariaceae. Gooseberry. 



101192. RuE-ussp. Rosaceae. Raspberry. 



101193. Soja max (L.) Piper. Fabaceae. 



Soybean. 

 Wild soybeans. 



101194. Puya chilensis Molina. Bro- 

 meliaceae. Puya. 



Seeds presented by William Hertrich, superinten- 

 dent, Huntington Botanic Garden, San Marino, 

 Calif., from plants growing in the garden. Re- 

 ceived October 13, 1932. 



Titanca in Peru and cardon in Chile. A shrub 4 to 

 5 feet high with a yuccalike mass of foliage. The 

 narrow, often recurved leaves, 2 to 4 feet long, are 

 | armed along the margins with strong glaucous re- 

 curved spines or thorns. The compound spike of 

 large yellow flowers, each 2 inches across and sessile 

 or nearly so, terminates a perfectly straight flower 

 stalk 3 to 5 feet tall. 



101195 to 101204. 



From Australia. Seeds presented by Edwin Ash- 

 by, Wittunga, Blackwood, South Australia. Re- 

 ceived October 13, 1932. 



101195 to 101199. Cali.istemonspp. Myrtaceae. 



101195. Callistbmon acuminattjs X ? 



A hybrid of C. acuminatus having flowers 

 which vary from pink to deep crimson. 



101196. Callistemon lilacinus E. Cheel. 



A shrub about 8 feet high with alternate 

 linear-lanceolate, mucronate leaves. The flow 

 ers, in dense cylindrical spikes, are character 

 ized by long conspicuous purple-lilac filaments 

 It is native to New Zealand and Western Aus 

 tralia. 



.101197. Callistemon paludosus X ? 



A hybrid of C. paludosus with pink flowers. 



101195 to 101204— Continued 



101198. Callistemon rugulosus DC. 



A shrub up to 12 feet high with narrowly lan- 

 ceolate leaves 1 to 3 inches long and clusters of 

 flowers having crimson filaments and yellow 

 anthers. 



101199. Callistemon sai.ignus (J. E. Smith) 



Sweet. 



A tall shrub or small tree up to 40 feet high 

 with distinctly penni-nerved, lanceolate leaves 

 1 to 3 inches long and small flowers, in spikes 1 

 to 2 inches long, which have bright-yellow sta- 

 mens usually not more than half an inch in 

 length. 



For previous introduction see 99403. 



101200 to 101204. Calothamnus spp. Myrta- 

 ceae. 

 Native Western Australian shrubs very much 



like the Callistemons but with a much longer 



flowering period. 



101200. Calothamnus asper Turcz. 



A hairy evergreen shrub with crowded linear 

 flat leaves and short dense clusters of flowers 

 which have crimson stamens. 



101201. Calothamnus homalophyllus F. 

 Muell. 



An erect shrub 4 to 6 feet high with thick flat 

 obianceolate to linear leaves 1 to 2 inches long; 

 the small flowers in 1-sided spikes have rich- 

 crimson stamens more than an inch long. 



101202. Calothamnus longissimus F. Muell. 



A low shrub with softly pubescent, corky 

 branchlets. The terete leaves are fi to 12 inches 

 long, and the small flowers, immersed in the 

 swollen corky stem, have several bundles of 

 stamens nearly an inch long. 



101203. Calothamnus quadeieidus Ait. 



An erect evergreen bush 7 feet high with 

 crowded linear leaves about 1 inch long, some- 

 what like those of Hakea, and dense spikes of 

 flowers which are conspicuous because of the 

 long rich-crimson stamens. 



For previous introduction s 

 101204. Calothamnus sanguineus Labill. 



A tall evergreen shrub 6 to 12 feet high with 

 subulate terete leaves about an inch long and 

 flowers with blood-red stamens as long as the 

 leaves. 



101205. Sesamum orientale L. Pe- 

 daliaceae. Sesame. 



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

 Scott Agricultural Laboratories, Department of 

 Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya, Received October 

 17, 1932. 



Sim-Sim. From the native market at Bukura; 

 grown at 4,800 feet altitude where the annual rain- 

 fall is 52 inches. Introduced for the use of Depart- 

 ment specialists. 



101206 to 101211. 



From Huancayo, Peru. Bulbs and seeds presented 

 by Paul G. Ledig, Huancayo Magnetic Observa- 

 tory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. 

 Received October 19, 1932. 



101206. (Undetermined.) 



A lily with large red or green-yellow flowers. 



101207. Urceolina mintata (Herb.) Benth. and 

 Hook. Amaryllidaceae. 



A bulbous perennial native to the Andes of Peru 

 and Bolivia. The solid scape, 1 foot high, bears 

 2 to 6 pendent urn-shaped scarlet flowers 2 inches 

 long, after which appear the narrowly ovate 

 leaves 1 foot long. 



For previous introduction see 93770. 



