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PLANT MATEEIAL INTRODUCED 



113712 to 113722— Continued. 



113717. No. 3665. Santa Rosa de Oopan. 

 A pure strain. 



113718. No. 3666. Deli. A pure strain, 

 orisinally from Sumatra, "but different 

 from No. 3660 [P. I. 113712]. The 

 plant is also much larger. 



113719. No. 3667. January 24, 1936. A 

 volunteer tobacco collected at El Eodeo, 

 40 km. west of Tegucigalpa. 



Nos. 113720 to 113722 were collected 

 January 24. 1936, at Siguatepeque, De- 

 partamento Comayagua, 



113720. No. 3668. Cultivated tohacco. 



113721. No. 3669. Pina. 



113722. No. 3670. A mixed sample of 

 Pina, Cubano, and other varieties. 



113723 to 113733. 



From South America. Material collected by 

 W. A. Archer. Bureau of Plant Industry. 

 Received in 1934 and 1935. Numbered 

 for convenience in distribution, February 

 1936. 



113723. Aristolochia sp. Aristolochia- 

 ceae. 



No. 2889. Loangoe tetei. Cuttings col- 

 lected December 13, 1934, at Carolina, 

 Surinam River, Surinam. 



113724. Aristolochia sp. Aristolochia- 

 ceae. 



No. 3412. Tigre guasca, Cuttings col- 

 lected May 21. 1935, at Mocoa, Comisario 

 del Puntuinayo, Colombia. 



113725. Banisteriopsis qtjitensis (Ndzu.) 

 Morton. Malpighiaceae. 



No. 3361-A. Taje. Roots collected May 

 2. 1935. at Leticia. Colombia. A woody 

 climber with ovate-lanceolate leaves 2 to 4 

 inches long and small yellovv flowers in 

 terminal clusters. Native to Ecuador. 



For previous introduction see 107821. 



113726. Dioscorea sp. Dioscoreaceae. 



No. 2460. Unncan. Roots of a vine 

 with hooked bulbils on the stems, col- 

 lected August 8, 1934, near Mazaruni Sta- 

 tion, British Guiana. 



113727. Eriosema crinitum (H. B. K.) G. 

 Don. Fabaceae. 



No. 2824. Root cuttings collected No- 

 vember 11. 1934, near Sandrij I. Surinam. 

 A low herbaceous perennial with an en- 

 larged storage root, trifoliolate leaves, and 

 racemes of small pale-yellow flowers. Na- 

 tive to tropical America. 



113728. Escobedia scabrifolia Ruiz and 

 Pav. Scrophulariaceae. 



No. 3383. Raiz de color. Cuttings col- 

 lected May 9, 1935, at Gelina, near Po- 

 payan. Colombia. An erect herbaceous 

 perennial with oblong leaves about 4 

 inches long and large white solitary flow- 

 ers. Native to western South America, 

 where the roots are used for dyeing. 



113729. Caryophyllus malaccensis (L.) 

 Stokes. Myrtaceae. 



No. 2S56. Pommarac. Seeds collected 

 December 5, 1934, at Vredenburg Weg, 

 Surinam. A tree with large, handsome, 

 glo.ssy leaves and masses of flowers an 

 inch or more across, filled with hundreds 

 of beautiful deep-rose or pink stamens ; the 

 edible fruit, 2 to 3 inches long, has bright 



113723 to 113733— Continued. 



red skin and dry white flesh like a cran- 

 berry. Introduced from the Malay Archi- 

 pelago by the Javanese. 



113730. LONCHOCARPUS SERICEUS (Poir.) 



H. B. K. Fabaceae. 



No. 3354. Garrapato. April 28, 1935. 

 Root cuttings of a large tree collected at 

 Tocsims, Finca Chucunday, Departamento 

 Cundinamarca. Colombia. The name re- 

 fers to the peculiar galls always present 

 on the leaves. 



113731. LONCHOCARPUS NICOU (Aubl.) DC. 



Fabaceae. 



No. 3408. Barbasco trueno. Cuttings 

 collected May 21, 1935, at Mocoa, Comi- 

 sario del Putumayo, Colombia. 



113732. Phyllanthus piscatorum H.B.K. 

 Euphorbia ceae. 



No. 3416. Tinta barbasco. Cuttings of 

 a shrub 10 feet high, collected at Mocoa, 

 Comisario del Putumayo, May 22, 1935. 



113733. Serjania paucidentata DC. Sap- 

 indaceae. 



No. 2887. Root cuttings collected De- 

 cember 13. 1934, at Carolina, Surinam 

 River, Surinam. 



For previous introduction see 106495. 



113734. Amygdaltjs btjchakica Korsh. 



Amygdalaceae. 



From the Soviet Union. Seeds presented by 

 Dr. Boris Fedtschenko, Botanic Institute 

 of the Academv of Sciences, Leningrad. 

 Received February 10, 1936. 



A wild almond, native to the hot dry re- 

 gions of Turkistan, with fruits about 1 inch 

 long. 



For previous introduction see 106838. 

 113735 to 113738. 



From the Soviet Union. Seeds presented by 

 the Institute of Plant Industry, Lenin- 

 grad. Received February 10, 1936. 



Seeds collected by a Mr. Dessiatkin in the 

 Altai Mountain region, Turkistan. 



113735. Allium fistulosum L. Liliaceae. 



Welsh onion. 



A very hardy wild strain ; the bulbs 

 and young leaves are edible. 



For previous introduction see 113301. 



113736. Hippophae rhamnoides L. Elae- 

 agnaceae. Common sea-buckthorn. 



A large-fruited variety with high sugar 

 content. 



For previous introduction see 109295. 



113737. Ribes hispidulum (Jancz.) Pojar- 

 kova. Grossulariaceae. 



A wild red currant, native to Turkistan. 



113738. Ribes petraeum Wulf. Grossu- 

 lariaceae. 



A large-fruited, frost-resistant red cur- 

 rant. 



113739 to 113748. Zea mays L. Poa- 

 ceae. Corn. 



From Australia. Seeds presented by the 

 Department of Agriculture and Stock, 

 Brisbane, Queensland. Received February 

 14, 1936. 





