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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



116897 to 116964— Continued. 



116962. No. 903. "Seedless" raisins 

 said to grow where the winter tem- 

 peratures are zero. They have been 

 seen as flourishing grapevines with 

 trunks a foot in diameter. The rais- 

 ins are of fine flavor and high sugar 

 content. 



116963. (Undetermined.) 



No. 837. From Parachinar, Kurram 

 Agency, North West Frontier Province. 

 Bulbs having blue-purple flowers. 



116964. (Undetermined.) 



No. 837-B. From Parachinar, Kurram 

 Agency, North West Frontier Province. 

 Seeds of No. 837 [P. I. 116963]. 



116965. Phyixostaohys flexuosa A 

 and C. Riviere. Poaceae. Bamboo. 



Plants growing at the Barbour Latbrop 

 Plant Introduction Garden, Savannah, Ga. 

 Numbered in June 1936. 



A bamboo about 10 feet high with two or 

 three leaves on a branchlet. The leaves are 

 2 to 4 inches long by about one-half inch 

 wide. The culm sheaths are a dull green, 

 often suffused with dull brown, and spotted 

 with deeper brown. 



These plants have been carried under P. I. 

 No. 38912, but this bamboo is not the spe- 

 cies there listed. The original source of the 

 plants is uncertain. 



See also P. I. No. 89715. 



