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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



103554 to 103579— Continued. 



103564 to 103579. Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck. 



Orange. 

 103584. No. 7. Bernia. 



103565. No. 8. Bresilienne. 



103568. No. 21. Cadena punchosa. 



103567. No. 6. Del Rio. 



103568. No. 24. De Tetouan. 



103569. No. 23. Fuya Monuda. 



103570. No. 11. Indigene Gzle-Gzel. 



103571. No. 9. Indigene Petrignanai. 



103572. No. 22. Magnum. 



103573. No. 12. Ovale de Sangre. 



103574. No. 19. Pajarito. 



103575. No. 20. Precocede valence. 



103576. No. 26. Royal. 



103577. No. 10. Sanguine grosse ronde. 



103578. No. 25. Torregrossa. 



103579. No. 18. Viciedo. 



103580 to 103586. 



From Arabia. Seeds presented by Mary C. Van 

 Pelt, American mission, Kuwait. Received July 

 31, 1933. 



Desert plants collected near Kuwait. 



103580. Allium sp. Liliaceae. 



103581. Astragalus sp. Fabaceae. Milkvetch. 



103582. Astragalus sp. Fabaceae. Milkvetch. 



103583. Reseda sp. Resedaceae. 



103584. Scabiosa sp. Dipsacaceae. 



103585. (Undetermined.) 



103586. (Undetermined.) 



103587 and 103588. Phaseolus luna- 

 tus L. Fabaceae. Lima bean. 



From Java. Seeds presented by the chief of the 

 Agricultural Institute, Buitenzorg, through K. A. 

 Patton, American consul general, Batavia. Re- 

 ceived July 28, 1933. 



Kratok beans. Locally grown varieties intro- 

 duced for the us9 of Department specialists. 



103587. A form with red or pinkish seeds. 



103588. A form with white seeds. 



103589 and 103590. 



From Cuba. Seeds presented by Robert M. Grey, 

 superintendent, Atkins Institution of the Arnold 

 Arboretum, Soledad, Cienfuegos, through F. G. 

 Walsingham. Received August 1, 1933. 



103589. Banisteria laurifolia L. Malpighia- 



A shrubby vine 15 to 20 feet long, native to 

 tropical America. The oblong to obovate reticu- 

 late leaves are 2 to 6 inches long, and the small 

 yellow flowers, borne in panicles, are followed by 

 red-brown maplelike fruits. 



103590. SolanUm tucumanense Griseb. Solan- 

 aceae. 



A subtropical shrub about 3 feet high, with 

 stout hairy branches, oval-lanceolate leaves, and 

 small white flowers in few-flowered cymes. 

 Native to Tucuman, Argentina. 



For previous introduction see 88259. 



103591. MrjSA PARADISIACA SAPIENTUM 



(L.) Kuntze. Musaceae. Banana. 



From Palestine. Suckers presented by Aaron 

 Khazanoff , Palestine Jewish Colonization Society 

 Haifa. Received August 3, 1933. 



Cavendish banana. A commercial variety, 

 considered one of the best in Palestine. Introduced 

 for the use of Department specialists. 



103592 to 103597. 



From Guatemala. Seeds presented by M. Pacheco, 

 Director General of Agriculture. Received 

 August 1, 1933. 



A collection of locally grown seed. 



103592. Baryxylum brasiliense (L.) Pierre. 



A tree up to 80 feet high, with bipinnate leaves 

 of small leaflets and axillary or terminal racemes 

 of small yellow flowers. The orange-colored wood 

 is elastic, tough, and durable and takes on a fine 

 polish. The tree is native to Central America. 



For previous introduction see 93579. 



103593. Erythrina sp. Fabaceae. Coraltree. 



103594. Randia sp. Rubiaceae. 



103595. Sideroxylon tempisque Pittier. Sapo- 

 taceae. 



A large tree, glabrous throughout, native to El 

 Salvador and Guatemala. The coriaceous ellip- 

 tical leaves are 2 to 4 inches long on long petioles, 

 and the small green-yellow flowers are in dense 

 clusters on the old wood and are followed by 

 ovoid 1-seeded fruits 1 to 2 inches long. 



For previous introduction see 80702. 



103596. Tabebuia sp. Bignoniaceae. 



103597. Ximenia Americana L. Olacaceae. 



False sandalwood. 



A widely distributed tropical tree with clus- 

 tered oblong-obtuse leaves, small yellow flowers, 

 and yellow plumlike acid fruits enclosing a white 

 nut. 



For previous introduction see 80499. 



103598. Prunus laurocerasus L. 

 Amygdalaceae. English cherry-laurel. 



Collected in the Capitol Grounds, Washington, 

 D. C, by Paul Russell, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. Received August 5, 1933. 



Variety schipkaensis. A shrubby form with 

 nearly entire leaves 2 to 5 inches long. 



103599 to 103602. 



From southern Madagascar. Seeds presented by 

 Henri Perrier de la Bathie, Academie Malgache, 

 Tananarive. Received August 2, 1933. 



Nos. 103599 to 103601 were collected at Tulear. 



103599. Aloe antandroi (Decary) Perrier. 

 Liliaceae. 



An aloe from Madagascar, with 4 or 5 simple or 

 sometimes branched stems up to 3 feet long, each 

 bearing a rosette of 15 to 25 ascending recurved 

 leaves 3 to 5 inches long. The reddish flowers, 

 about 1 inch long, are in small spikes on scapes 

 2 to 4 feet high. 



For previous introduction see 88869. 



103800. Capparis grandidieri Baill. Cappari- 

 daceae. 



A tree 20 to 30 feet high, with linear-oblong 

 leathery acuminate leaves 2 inches long and 

 rather large rosy flowers. Native to Madagascar. 



