UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



INVENTORY No. 127 



Washington, D. C. w Issued March 1941 



PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED BY THE DIVISION OF PLANT EX- 

 PLORATION AND INTRODUCTION, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, 

 APRIL 1 TO JUNE 30, 1936 (NOS. 114314^116965) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introductory statement- 1 



Inventory -3 



Index of common and scientific names 87 



INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 



This inventory, No. 127, records the plant material (Nos. 114314r- 

 116965) received by the Division of Plant Exploration and Intro- 

 duction during the period from April 1 to June 30, 1936. 



More than 2,600 introductions mark this second quarter of 1936; 

 a large percentage of these are the result of the activities of three 

 agricultural explorers who were in the field at that time. 



Walter Koelz was traveling in India from Ceylon north through 

 the Bombay Presidency and the United Provinces to the Punjab and 

 the North West Frontier Province, with the definite object of col- 

 lecting material for the fruit- and vegetable-breeding projects of the 

 Bureau. He visited many villages and small towns, collecting from 

 native markets and local garden plots seeds of all available types 

 of fruits and vegetables, with notes of their special characteristics 

 and local uses. 



In Mexico, W. A. Archer covered the territory from the south- 

 eastern State of Tabasco through Veracruz and northward to the 

 State of Durango, collecting seeds of local strains of tobacco. At the 

 same time Raymond Stadelman was carrying on a similar type of 

 exploration in Peru and Ecuador, where he collected not only com- 

 mon tobacco but also closely related species of Nicotiana which have 

 since proved of unusual interest to our plant breeders working for 

 disease-resistant tobacco strains. 



Through the courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, 

 England, 111 lots of cowpeas (Vigna sinensis, Nos. 115666 to 115776), 

 representing native strains from Ceylon, Mauritius, and Africa, were 

 received. These have proved of interest chiefly from the genetical 

 standpoint. The African forms came originally from the Anglo- 



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