PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



101243 to 101252— Continued 



are followed by globose purple fruits one half inch 

 long. 



101243. Helicteres se.mitriloba Bert. Ster- 

 culiaceae. 



A shrub 8 to 12 feet high, native to the West 

 Indies, with cordate, sinuate-toothed or some- 

 times 3-lobed leaves, 1 to 3 inches long, and small 

 flowers in axillary clusters. 



101249. MOMORDICA COCHINCHINENSIS (Lour.) 



Spreng. Cucurbitaceae. 



A very vigorous, tall climber, native to the 

 Philippine Islands, producing large round green- 

 yellow, attractive fruits which should make it 

 popular as an ornamental vine. The immature 

 fruits are boiled and eaten by the Filipinos. The 

 numerous large round flat seeds appear to be very 

 rich in oil. 



101250. Picramnia pentandra Swartz. Simar- 

 oubaceae. 



A small tree with compound leaves made up of 

 5 to 9 oblong-obovate, shining leaflets 2 to 3 inches 

 long, and pendulous racemes of small white flowers 

 followed by ovoid red to dark-blue, berrylike 

 fruits. Native to the West Indies. 



101251. Serjania glabrata H. 

 daceae. 



B. K. Sapin- 



A climbing shrub with alternate biternate 

 leaves; the leaflets are elliptic-oblong and coarsely 

 serrate-crenate. The white flowers are in axillary 

 spikelike racemes. Native to the temperate 

 regions in Peru. 



101252. Thrinax sp. Phoenicaceae. 



Palm. 



101253 to 101255. Avena sativa L. 

 Poaceae. Oats. 



From England. Seeds presented by Gartons, Ltd. , 

 Warrington. Received October 29, 1932. 



101253. Bountiful, a black oat. 



101254. Hardy Prolific Black Winter oat. 



101255. Unique, a white winter oat. 



1C1256. Annona diversifolia Saf- 

 ford. Annonaceae. llama. 



From Guatemala. Seeds presented by Don Jorge 

 Garcia Salas, Director General de Agricultura. 

 Received October 27, 1932. 



A small tree, native to Mexico and tropical Amer- 

 ica, with brown-gray aromatic bark. The thin 

 membranous leaves, 5 inches long, are broadly 

 elliptical to oblanceolate. The broadly ovoid fruit, 

 about 6 inches long, is clothed in dense grayish felt- 

 like tomentum and, when mature, is usually 

 covered with stout thick protuberances. The hard 

 smooth golden-brown nutlike seeds are embedded 

 in the edible cream-colored or rose-tinted flesh. 



For previous introduction see 9S340. 



101257. Calyptrogyne occidentalis 



(Swartz) G. Maza. Phoenicaceae. 



Manaca palm. 



From Cuba. Plants presented by Robert M. Grey, 

 superintendent, Atkins Institution of the Arnold 

 Arboretum, Soledad, Cienfuegos. Received Oc- 

 tober 31, 1932. 



A beautiful and rare palm with a straight smooth 

 stem sometimes reaching a height of 50 feet. The 

 pinnate leaves are from 8 to 12 feet long. 



For previous introduction see 98165. 



101258 and 101259. 



L. Cichoriaceae. 



LACTUCA SATIVA 



Garden lettuce 



From the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 

 Seeds presented by Prof. N. I. Vavilov, through 

 the Department of New Culture and Introduc 

 tion, Leningrad. Received November 1, 1932. 



Ussun, Chinese stem lettuce. A peculiar vege 

 table of which the thick inner stalk is eaten; this 

 stalk is about 2H feet long and 2 inches in diameter, 

 and it is cut into slices and boiled. The leaves are 

 discarded, as they are bitter. The original seed 

 was collected by an expedition to central China in 

 1929. 



101258. No. 5. 



101260 to 101265. 



101259. No. 17. 



From Cuba. Seeds presented by Robert M. Grey, 

 superintendent, Atkins Institution of the Arnold 

 Arboretum, Soledad, Cienfuegos. Received 

 October 26, 1932. 



101260. Artocarpus 

 Moraceae. 



Integra (Thunb.) L. 

 Jackfruit. 



A very large tree native to southern India and 

 the Malay Archipelago, valued chiefly for its 

 enormous fruits, a single one of which may weigh 

 over 100 pounds. These fruits, which are borne 

 on the trunk and older branches, are usually 

 irregularly oblong and are always green, with the 

 rind consisting of somewhat hexagonal knobs. 

 When ripe the fruits have a powerful odor, and 

 the stronger the latter the better the quality of 

 the fruit. With the exception of the rind and 

 core, the entire fruit is eaten, the white or cream- 

 colored, soft flaky pulp being used either raw or 

 boiled and fried. The large seeds are roasted and 

 used in curries. 



For previous introduction see 98799. 



101261. Citharexylum tristachyum Turcz. 

 Verbenaceae. 



A spiny tropical shrub with opposite, ovate- 

 lanceolate entire leaves and small white flowers 

 in spikelike racemes. Native to Cuba. 



101262. Ixora fraseri Hort. Rubiaceae. 



Said to be a hybrid closely resembling /. chinen- 

 sis and having flowers with a scarlet tube and a 

 brilliant salmon limb. 



101263. Livistona hoogendorpu Andre, 

 nicaceae. 



Phoe- 

 Palm. 



A tall Javanese palm with fan-shaped leaves 4 

 to 6 feet wide on spiny petioles 3 to 5 feet long, red 

 brown at the base and becoming olive green near 

 the blade. The blades are made up of 10 to 12 

 plicate pendulous segments with 5 to 7 acute lobes 

 at the apex. 



Apo- 



An ornamental tropical woody climber with 

 white and purple flowers. The seeds contain a 

 poisonous alkaloid which is used as a heart stimu- 

 lant. 



For previous introduction see 



101264. Strophanthus saraientosus DC. 

 cyr 



101265. VlTEX PARVIFLORA JuSS. 



Verbenaceae. 

 Chaste-tree. 



Molave. A timber tree native to the Philippine 

 Islands which, under favorable conditions 

 becomes 100 feet high and 20 feet in diameter, 

 although it is usually smaller. The pale-yellow 

 wood is hard and heavy but easy to work and is a 

 good substitute for teak. It is considered .one of 



