UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



INVENTORY No. 122 



Washington, D. C. ▼ Issued October 1939 



PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED BY THE DIVISION OF PLANT EX- 

 PLORATION AND INTRODUCTION, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, 

 JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 1935 (Nos. 107748-110197) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introductory statement 1 



Inventory 3 



Index of common and scientific names 85 



INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 



The present inventory, No. 122, is a record of the plant material 

 (Nos. 107748-110197) received by the Division of Plant Exploration 

 and Introduction during the period from January 1 to March 31, 1935. 



Nearly one-half of the plant material recorded for this period was 

 received from H. L. Westover and C. R. Enlow, of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, who were still in the field, and whose expedition to 

 the cold semiarid regions of Turkistan has resulted in the introduction 

 of plant material of particular value for the Soil Conservation Serv- 

 ice of this Department. This material will be tested in our Western 

 and Southwestern States. 



As a result of agricultural explorations carried on by W. A. Archer 

 in Surinam and Venezuela during the early part of 1935, about 150 

 lots of seeds were sent in from those countries. The material col- 

 lected by Dr. Archer included a number of leguminous plants of 

 probable value as cover crops, local varieties of vegetables and tropi- 

 cal fruits, and several ornamental shrubs and trees destined for test- 

 ing in southern Florida. 



Large areas of eastern Ecuador are practically unknown, from a 

 botanical point of view, and it is, therefore, with considerable interest 

 that mention is made of five shipments of seeds collected in this area 

 by the late Mrs. Ynes Mexia. Among the various items received were 

 seeds of several species of Juglans, Diospyros, and Datura. 



Further additions to chestnut material intended for the use of forest 

 pathologists are recorded in three shipments of scions and seeds of 

 •Castanea spp., from eastern China, collected by Peter Liu, from whom, 

 during the past decade, much Chinese plant material has been re- 

 ceived. Mr. Liu also sent in scions of a number of new or little-known 

 varieties of Diospyros haki (Nos. 107775-107778; 108311, 108312). 



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