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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



111987. Casuarina rumphiana Miquel. 

 Casuarinaceae. 



From Java. Seeds presented by the Director, 

 Botanic Garden, Buitenzorg. Received July 

 6, 3935. 



Introduced for Department specialists. 



A rather scraggly tree with very slender, 

 delicate green, pendent branches and cones 

 having few seeds. It is native to Java. 



For previous introduction see 92374. 



111988 to 111991. Casuarina spp. Cas- 

 uarinaceae. 



From Australia. Seeds presented by C. A. 

 Gardner, Government Botanist, Perth, 

 Western Australia. Received July 9, 1935. 



Introduced for Department specialists. 



111988. Casuarina acuaria F. Muell. 



A leafless shrub with erect rigid branches 

 and numerous deciduous branchlets ; these 

 are erect, slender, but rigid, and each con- 

 sists of but two internodes. The cones, 

 globular and solitary or in small clusters, 

 are about 1 inch in diameter. Native to 

 Western Australia. 



For previous introduction see 105789. 



111989. Casuarina grevilleoidbs Diels. 



A low bushy shrub about 1 foot high, 

 with the branches and branchlets much- 

 jointed and the younger joints white tomen- 

 tose. Native to Western Australia. 



For previous introduction see 105795. 



111990. Casuarina hblmsii Ewart and 

 Gordon. 



A Western Australian tree 5 feet high, 

 with slender terete branchlets 4 to 5 inches 

 long. The nearly smooth conns are 1 inch 

 long and about half an inch in diameter. 



For previous introduction see 93789. 



111991. CASUARINA TRICHODON Miq. 



An erect leafless shrub about 8 feet high 

 with branchlets usually pendulous ; closely 

 resembling Casuarina stricta. Native to 

 rocky places in Western Australia. 



111992. Arachis hypogaea L. Faba- 

 ceae. Peanut. 



From Brazil. Seeds presented by the Di- 

 rector, Instituto de Biolo.^ia Vegetal, Rio de 

 Janeiro. Received July 12, 1935. 



Introduced for Department specialists. 



111993. Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck. 

 Rutaceae. Orange. 



From Spain. Budsticks presented by D. 

 Manuel Herrero, Ingeniero-Director, Esta- 

 cion Naranjera de Levante, Valencia. Re- 

 ceived July 17, 1935. 



Macetra. 

 cialists. 



Introduced for Department spe- 



111994 to 111997. 



ceae. 



Phalaris spp. Poa- 

 Canary grass. 



From Australia. Seeds presented by the 

 Waite Agricultural Research Institute, 

 Adelaide University, Glen Osmond, South 

 Australia. Received July 9, 1935. 



Introduced for Department specialists. 



111994. PHALARIS COERULESCENS Desf. 



Gb. 414. A cespitose perennial grass. 



Carica papaya L. 

 Papaya. 



111994 to 111997— Continued. 



For previous introduction see 88726. 



111995 to 111997. PHALARIS TUBEROSA L. 



Toowoomba canary grass. 



A forage grass which has proved success- 

 ful at the Waite Agricultural Research In- 

 stitute. 



For previous introduction see 104988. 



111995. Gb. 299. 111997. Gb. 421. 



111996. Gb. 409. 



111998 and 111999. 



Papayaceae. 



From California. Seeds presented by Col. 

 James Stewart, Ardsheal Ranch. La Habra 

 Heights. Received July 13, 1935. 



Introduced for Department specialists. 



111998. A Tahitian variety with large fruit. 



111999. A South African variety with 

 smaller fruit. 



112000 to 112012. Pistacia vera L. An- 

 acardiaceae. Pistachio. 



From the Soviet Union. Seeds presented by 

 the Dry Subtropical Station, Tashkent. 

 Received August 3, 1935. 



Introduced for Department specialists. 



112000. No. 0-2815. 112007. No. 0-2822. 



112001. 



No. 



0-2816. 



112008. 



No. 



0-2823. 



112002. 



No. 



0-2817. 



112009. 



No. 



0-2824. 



112003. 



No. 



0-2818. 



112010. 



No. 



0-2837. 



112004. 



No. 



0-2819. 



112011. 



No. 



0-2838. 



112005. 



No. 



O-2820. 



112012. 



No. 



0-2839. 



112006. 



No. 



0-2821. 









112013 to 112016. Coix lacryma-jobi L. 

 Poaceae. Jobs-tears. 



From the Philippine Islands. Seeds pre- 

 sented by the College of Agriculture, Uni- 

 versity of the Philippines, Los Banos, La- 

 guna. Received August 5, 1935. 



Introduced for Department specialists. 



112013. A cultivated glutinous variety. 



112014. LoTcfao. A cultivated variety. 



112015. A wild variety. 



112016. A wild variety. 



112017. Rubus macrocarpus Benth. 

 Rosaceae. Colombian blackberry. 



From Colombia. Seeds collected by Guevera 

 Amortegui Baltasar, Fusagasuga, and pre- 

 sented by Dr. W. R. Maxon, Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington, D. C. Received 

 August 12, 1935. 



Introduced for Department specialists. 



For previous introduction see 74553. 



112018 and 112019. Persea Americana 

 Mill. Lauraceae. Avocado. 



From Costa Rica. 

 Dr. Oton Jiminez, 

 gust 14, 1935. 



Budsticks 

 San Jose\ 



presented by 

 Received Au- 



Introduced for Department specialists. 



112018. A large-fruited variety with small 

 seeds. 



112019. A seedless variety. 



