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118437 to 118443— Continued. 

 118438 and 118439. Hippeastrum. 



Hybrid hippeastrums purchased at Sao 

 Paulo, September 14, 1936. Cultivated 

 types. 



118438. No. 4015. Flowers dark red. 



118439. No. 4016. Flowers pink. 



118440. Hippeastrum psittacinum (Ker) 

 Herb. 



No. 4017. From Sao Paulo, September 

 14, 1936. A robust hippeastrum with 6 

 to 8 strap-shaped leaves about 2 feet long 

 and a 2- to 4-flowered umbel on a stout 

 peduncle. The perianth limb is 4 to 5 

 inches long, and the segments are apple- 

 green with profuse crimson markings. 

 Native to Brazil. 



118441. Hippeastrum calyptratum (Ker) 

 Herb. 



No. 4018. From Sao Paulo, September 

 14. 1936. A Brazilian hippeastrum with 

 5 or 6 strap-shaped leaves up to 2 feet 

 long and an equally long peduncle with 2 

 or 3 pale-yellow flowers with green stripes ; 

 the segments are about iy 2 inches wide. 



118442. Hippeastrum decoratum Lorn. 



No. 4019. A Brazilian hippeastrum 

 closely allied to Hippeastrum psittacinum. 

 It has about 10 linear leaves over 2 feet 

 long and large flowers with pale-green 

 segments tipped with purplish red. 



118443. Hippeastrum. 



No. 4020. A hybrid hippeastrum with 

 white and yellow flowers' with red stripes. 



118444 and 118445. Aktocaeptjs commu- 

 nis Forst. (Artocarpus incisa L. f.). 

 Moraceae. Breadfruit. 



From Trinidad, British West Indies. Root 

 cuttings presented by the manager of the 

 St. Augustine Nursery. Received No- 

 vember 2, 1936. 



118444. A white variety. 



118445. A yellow variety. 



118446. Aktocaeptjs sp. Moraceae. 



From China. Seeds presented by F. G. 

 Walsingham, Atkins Institution of the 

 Arnold Arboretum, Soledad Cienfuegos, 

 Cuba. Received October 30, 1936. 



Originally from the Botanical Gardens, 

 Hong Kong, China. 



118447. Paeonia sp. Ranunculaceae. 



Peony. 



From Turkey. Roots collected by H. L. 



Westover and F. L. Wellman, Bureau of 



Plant Industry. Received November 2, 

 1936. 



No. 1046. From the mountains 20 km. 

 south of Inebolu, near Samsun, August 14, 

 1936. 



118448. Coffea akabica L. Rubiaceae. 



Arabian coffee. 



From Puerto Rico. Seeds presented by the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Maya- 

 guez, and grown at the United States 

 Plant Introduction Garden, Coconut 

 Grove, Fla. Numbered in October 1936. 



Variety Erecta. This species, as it grows 

 wild is a handsome small tree, 10 to 15 

 feet high, with somewhat thin, oblong, 

 glossy leaves 3 to 6 inches long and about 



1 18448 — Continued. 



one-third as wide, abruptly narrowed to a 

 rather short point at the apex. The fra- 

 grant white flowers are clustered in the ax- 

 il?. The variety Erecta is described as 

 having a more upright habit, smaller leaves, 

 and shorter joints than the type and is 

 supposed to be better adapted to situations 

 exposed to wind. 



118449. Inodes exul O. F. Cook. Phoe- 

 nicaceae. Victoria palmetto. 



Plants growing at the United States Plant 

 Introduction Garden, Coconut Grove, Fla. 

 Numbered in October 1936. 



P. I. G. Nos 7786 and 7787. This is a 

 new palmetto occurring in cultivation in 

 some parts of Texas. It is distinguished 

 from related species by its large size, the 

 deep-green foliage, the thickened branch- 

 lets of the inflorescence, the solitary fruit, 

 and the large seed, not wrinkled above nov 

 hollowed out below. 



For previous introduction see 44345. 



118450. Styloma sp. Phoenicaceae. 



Palm. 



From Washington. D. C. Seeds collected 

 at the National Botanic Garden, Wash- 

 ington, by O. F. Cook, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. Received October 8, 1936. 



Fruits ripened in the United States Bo- 

 tanic Garden, October 1936. This is one 

 of the Pacific Island palms, of the group 

 commercially known as Pritchardia, prob- 

 ably from one of the eastern archipelagos — ■ 

 Tahiti, Marquesas, or Hawaii. 



The leaves are smaller than those of 

 Styloma paoifica, the segments more deeply 

 divided, and split at the ends. The fruits 

 have a soft fibrous pericarp instead of the 

 thick woody shell of many of the Hawaiian 

 8. eriophora, including a brown tomentum 

 covering the leaf sheaths, petioles, and in- 

 llorescenses, and the calyx is not swollen 

 nor indurated. 



118451 to 118463. Aeachis spp. Faba- 

 ceae. Peanut. 



From Brazil. Seeds collected by W. A. 

 Archer, Bureau of Plant Industry. Re- 

 ceived October 9, 1936. 



118451. Arachis hypogaea L. 



No. 3963. From Campo Grande, east- 

 ern Matto Grosso, September 1, 1936. A 

 cultivated peanut. 



118452. Arachis sp. 



No. 3965. From the streets of Campo 

 Grande, eastern Matto Grosso, Septem- 

 ber 2, 1936. Received under the specific 

 namie "rastreiro," for which a place of 

 publication has not been found. 



118453 to 118455. Arachis diogoi Hoehne. 



A prostrate herb about 1 foot long, 

 with leaves composed of 4 linear-oblong 

 leaflets and yellow flowers in small axil- 

 lary clusters. Native to Brazil. 



118453. No. 3966. From Campo Grande, 

 eastern Matto Grosso, September 2, 

 1936. Collected along the streets. 



118454. No. 3967. From Fazenda Xar- 

 queada Velha, Campo Grande, east- 

 ern Matto Grosso, September 3, 1936. 

 Four pods were double-seeded. 



118455. No. 3968. Variety Minor. From 

 Lagoinha, on the road between 

 Campo Grande and Capao, eastern 

 Matto Grosso, September 6, 1936. 



