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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



102244 to 102264— Continued. 



grant white cup-shaped flowers, 1 to 

 2 inches across, are solitary in the 

 axils of the leaves. 



102262. STEWARTIA PSEDDO - CAMELLIA 



Maxim. Japanese stewartia. 



A handsome tree, native to Japan, 

 50 feet high, with erect branches and 

 red bark. The thickish obovate-lance- 

 olate leaves are bright green, and the 

 large white flowers are borne in 

 summer. 



102263. Stewartia sinensis Rehd. 

 and Wils. 



A shrub or tree up to 30 feet high, 

 native to central China. The oblong 

 to obovate serrulate leaves are 2 to 4 

 inches long, and the cup-shaped white 

 flowers are 2 inches across. 



102264. Tripbtaleia paniculata Sieb. 

 and Zucc. Ericaceae. 



A shrub 4 to 6 feet high with red- 

 brown branchlets, native to Japan. The 

 rhomboid-ovate leaves are 1 to 3 inches 

 long, and the pink-tinged white flowers, 

 with three distinct petals, are in ter- 

 minal panicles 2 to 4 inches long. 



102265. Erytheina sp. Fabaceae. 



From Trinidad. Seeds presented through 

 David Fairchild. Received March 13, 

 1933. 



102266 and 102267. Castanea sativa 

 Mill. Fagaceae. Spanish chestnut. 



From the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- 

 lics. Seeds presented by the Institute 

 of Plant Industry, Leningrad. Received 

 March 16, 1933. 



Wild forest chestnuts, collected in the 

 Caucasus area. 



102288 to 102273. 



From the West Indies. Material collected 

 by David Fairchild, with the 1933 Alli- 

 son V. Armour expedition. Received 

 March 20, 1933. 



102268. IIlPPEASTRUM Sp. 



ceae. 



No. 3023. 



102269. Mangifera indica L. Anacar- 

 diaceae. Mango. 



No. 3052. Bombay. From Hope Gar- 

 dens, Kim r str.n, Jamaica ; presented by 

 M. S. Goodman. March 12. 1933. This is 

 the most prolific of all the East Indian 

 mangoes that have been tested in Ja- 

 maica. It is a small, fiberless, sweet 

 mango with a faint red blush, very much 

 like the " Pairi." 



102270. Philodendron sp. Araceae. 



No. 3042. From near Bath, Jamaica, 

 March 7. 1933. A handsome climber 

 with sagittate leaves with incised mar- 

 gins. 



102271. Rhabdadenia sp. Apocynaceae. 



No. 3014. From the Bahama Islands, 

 February 24. 1933. Tubers of a woody 

 vine with opposite, thick, almost-succu- 

 lent leaves and large flowers in small 

 racemes. Found growing over stumps in 

 a cornfield on Mariguana Island. 



102272. Solanum tuberosum L. Solana- 

 ceae. Potato. 



102268 to 102273— Continued. 



Anraryllida- 



No. 3029. Tubers purchared in the 

 market at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 

 3, 1933. Small elongated potatoes with 

 deep-set eyes. 



102273. Syngonium adeitum 

 Schott. Araceae. 



(L.) 



No. 3043. Cuttings collected March 7, 

 1933, near Bath, Jamniea. A woody vine 

 native to the West Indies and tropical 

 America. The 3- to 5-parted leaves have 

 the middle segment largest, up to 12 

 inches Ion?, and the yellow-green spathe, 

 spotted with purple, 6 to 10 inches long, 

 is cylindrical with a closely sheathing 

 base. 



102274. Bkassica oleracea capitata 

 L. Brassicaceae. Cabbage. 



From Sweden. Seeds presented by Carl G. 

 Dahl, director, Experimentalfaltet, Akarp, 



Alnarp. 

 Jaatun. 



Received March 20, 1933. 



102275. Ipomoea batatas (L.) Poir. 

 Convolvulaceae. Sweetpotato. 



From the American Virgin Islands. Tu- 

 bers presented by Claud Horn, horticul- 

 turist, Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Christiansted. Received March 23, 1933. 



No. 795. A seedling produced at the sta- 

 tion. 



102276. Chaetospermtjm glutinosum 

 (Blanco) Swingle. Rutaceae. 



Tabog. 



From the Canal Zone. Seeds presented by 

 J. E. Higgins, superintendent, Canal Zone 

 Experiment Gardens, Summit. Received 

 March 21, 1933. 



A small spiny Philippine tree with trl- 

 foliolate leaves, small clusters of rather 

 large white flowers, and oblong hard- 

 shelled fruits. This tree is being tested as 

 a stock for the commercial citrus fruits. 



102277 to 102287. 



From the West Indies. Material collected 

 by David Fairchild, with the 1933 Allison 

 V. Armour expedition. Received March 

 24, 1933. 



102277. Agave morrisii Baker. Amaryl- 

 lidaceae. 



No. 3059. Plants collected in Jamaica, 

 British West Indies, March 11, 1933. A 

 stemless agave, native to Jamaica, with 

 a rosette of 20 to 30 spatulate leaves 4 

 to 6 feet long. The end spine is an inch 

 long, and the marginal prickles are dark 

 brown. The inflorescence. 15 to 20 feet 

 high, is made up of many branches which 

 bear bright-yellow flowers 2 to 3 inches 

 long. 



102278. Blighia sapida Koen. Sapinda- 

 ceae. Akee. 



No. 3062. From Kingston. Jamaica, 

 March 11, 1933. Seed of a tree, native 

 to the Guinea Coast of Africa, which has 

 become naturalized in the West Indies. 

 The brght red fruits, containing shiny 

 black seeds, are surrounded by a. yeljow 

 aril. The fruit is said to be poisonous 

 when immature or overripe, but the fleshv 

 portion (aril) is eaten after being boiled 

 or fried. 



