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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



118905 to 118919. Phaseolus vulgaris 

 L. Fabaceae. Common bean. 



Fro Ti the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- 

 lics. Seeds presented through the Insti- 

 tute of Plant Industry. Leningrad. Re- 

 ceived November 18, 1936. 



A collection of beans which bave proved 

 resistant to mosaic disease and bacteriosis, 

 from the Ukraine and Transcaucasus. 



118913. No. 3393. 



118914. No. 3688. 



118915. No. 4889. 



118916. No. 4891. 



118917. No. 4904. 



118918. No. 6732. 



118919. No. 6900. 



118905. No. 1458. 



118906. No. 1475. 



118907. No. 1527. 



118908. No. 1571. 



118909. No. 3009. 



118910. No. 3076. 



118911. No. 3078. 



118912. No. 1921. 



118920 to 118925. 



From Turkey. Bulbs and seeds collected by 

 H. L. Westover and F. L. Wellman, Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry. Received Novem- 

 ber 13, 1936. 



118920. Allium sp. Liliaceae. 



No. 1028. Bulbs collected 32 km. east 

 of Chanakkale, September 19, 1936. 



118921. Allium sp. Liliaceae. 



No. 1019. A mixed collection of bulbs 

 from the mountains 35 km. east of Chanak- 

 kale, September 19, 1936. 



118922. Castanea sativa Mill. Fagaceae. 



Spanish chestnut. 



No. 1025. Purchased in Istanbul ; (orig- 

 inally from large trees at Burma). Sep- 

 tember 30, 1936. 



For previous introduction see 103975. 



118923. Pinus halepensis Mill. Pinaceae. 



Aleppo pine. 



No. 1026. Fronj the mountains 17 km. 

 north of Izmir, September 24, 1936. 



118924. Pistacia sp. Anacardiaceae. 



No. 1018. From large shade trees in a 

 park at Balikesir, September 20, 1936. 



118925. Quercus coccifera L. Fagaceae. 



Kermes oak. 



No. 1014. From 7 km. southeast of 

 Kemal Pasha, September 25, 1936. An 

 evergreen shrub or small tree of dense 

 habit with stiff, spiny, broad-elliptic to 

 ovate-oblong, hollylike leaves one-half to 

 1% inches long. Native to the Mediter- 

 ranean region. 



118926. Phyllostachys sp. Poaceae. 



Bamboo. 



From Canada. Plants presented by J. Basil 

 Keys, Victoria. British Columbia. Received 

 November 24, 1936. 



A moderately hardy bamboo obtained sev- 

 eral years ago. under the name Phyllostachys 

 mitis, by Mr. Keys from a local nursery. 



118927. Securidaca longipedunculata 

 Fres. Polygalaceae. 



Ehodesia violet-tree. 



From Southern Rhodesia, Africa. Seeds pre- 

 sented by R. H. B. Dickson. Maienji, Odzi. 

 Received November 24, 1936. 



118927 — Continued. 



A much-branched divaricate shrub or small 

 tree native to tropical Africa. The coriaceous 

 leaves are ovate-elliptic, and the flowers, in 

 terminal spreading racemes, are rose, shades 

 of purple, or violet and variegated with 

 white. 



For previous introduction see 103920. 



118928. Citrus limonia Osbeck. Ruta- 

 ceae. lemon. 



From the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 

 Budsticks presented by A. M. Troyer, Insti- 

 tute of Wet Subtropics, Sukhum, Abkhazia. 

 Received November 24, 1936. 



Kusner. A lemon reputed to be consider- 

 ably more hardy than the Eureka or Lisbon. 



118929 to 118932. 



From California. Seeds collected in Death 

 Valley by French Gilman, of the National 

 Park Service. Received November 11, 1936. 



118929. Aectomecon merriami Coville. 

 Papaveraceae. 



118930. Enceliopsis covillei (A. Nels.) 

 Blake. Asteraceae. 



118931. Salvia funerea M. E. Jones. Men- 

 thaceae. 



118932. Salvia pachyphylla Epling. Men- 

 thaceae. 



118933 and 118934. 



From Peru. Bulbs collected by Mrs. Ynes 

 Mexia, Bureau of Plant Industry. Re- 

 ceived November 21, 1936. 



118933. Hippeastrum reginae (L.) Her- 

 bert. Amaryllidaceae. 



No. 8211-A. Cebolleta. September 18, 

 1936. Hacienda San Carlos, Distrito Churu- 

 bamba, Departamento Huanuco, along the 

 trail from Rio Ysabel to San Carlos, in an 

 open field at 1,450 m. altitude. Flowers 

 crimson with white at the center. 



118934. Urceolina urceolata (Ruiz and 

 Pav.) Asch. and Graebn. Amaryllida- 

 ceae. 



No. S305-A. October 17, 1936. From 

 the Departamento Huanuco. along the left 

 bank of the Rio Huallaza, among rocks in 

 dense forest, at 805 m. altitude. A tender 

 bulbous plant with wide oblong leaves 1 

 foot long and a solitary scape with an 

 umbel of 4 to 6 nodding canary-yellow 

 flowers striped with pale green. Native 

 to the Andes of Peru. 



118935. Cotoneaster sp. Malaceae. 



From England. Plants presented by Sir Lio- 

 nel de Rothschild, St. Switbins Lane, Lon- 

 don. Received November 27, 1936. 



Received under the specific name "cornu- 

 bia," for which a place of publication has not 

 been found. Said to be a handsome coto- 

 neaster closely allied to G. frigida, but it is 

 much more fructiferous, with larger and 

 brighter berries, and has smaller, more acumi- 

 nate leaves. 



118936 to 118939. Cinchona spp. Ru- 

 biaceae. 



From the Philippine Islands. Seeds presented 

 by Arthur P. Fischer, Director of Forestry, 

 Bureau of Forestry, Manila. Received No- 

 vember 23, 1936. 



118936. Cinchona officinalis L. 



For previous introduction and descrip- 

 tion see 118797. 



