

JULY 1 TO SEPTEMBER 3 0, 193 



124771 to 124801— Continued. 



124789 to 124791. From Lima. Peru. 

 Seeds collected by Wilson Popenoe. 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. United 

 States Department of Agriculture. Re- 

 ceived September 6. 1921. 



124789. C. P. B. 11545-A. A long 

 date. 



124790. C. P. B. 11545-B. A large 

 plump date. 



124791. C. P. B. 11545-C. A small 

 round date. 



124792. C. P. B. 12744. From the Man- 

 deli Oasis, Iraq. Offshoots purchased 

 by R. W. Nixon. Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, United States Department of 

 Agriculture. Received in February 

 1929. 



124793. Phoenix ouseleyana Griff. 



C. P. B. 13119. From Hassenur Kotten- 

 dai, Coimbatore, India. Seeds collected by 

 the systematic botanist at Madras. India, 

 and presented by H. L. Sampson, Economic 

 Botanist. Royal Botanic Gardens. Received 

 September 13, 1933. 



124794 to 124799. Phoenix reclinata Jacq. 

 Senegal date palm, 



124794. C. P. B. 12160. From Uganda, 

 Africa. Seeds collected by H. L. 

 Shantz, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. Received August 1, 1924. 



124795. C. P. B. 12904. From the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. Stellenbosch, 

 South Africa. Received July 30, 1930. 



124796. C. P. B. 12975. Seeds collected 

 near Victoria Falls, Southern Rhodesia, 

 Africa, and presented by Dr. A. W. 

 Hill, Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew, 

 England. Received May 16, 1920. 



124797. C. P. B. 12993. From Santa 

 Barbara Mission, California. Seeds 

 collected by E. S. Kellot and presented 

 through R. W. Nixon, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, United States Department of 

 Agriculture. Received November 23, 

 1931. 



124798. C. P. B. 13021. Seeds collected 

 in Kampala, Uganda, by the assistant 

 botanist and presented by the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew. England. Re- 

 ceived September 20, 1932. 



124799. C. P. B. 13026. Seeds collected 

 in Nyasaland, Africa, and presented 

 by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 

 England. Received October 27, 1932. 



124800. Phoenix roebelenii O'Brien. 



C. P. B. 12630. Seeds presented by 

 Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie., Paris, France. 

 Received May 23, 1928. 



124801. Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb. 



C. P. B. 11891. From Sind. India. 

 Seeds presented by Prof. T. F. Main. Dep- 

 uty Director of Agriculture. Received 

 June 22, 1922. 



124802 and 124803. 



From New York. Seeds presented through 

 Sister M. Juliana, of the Foreign Mission 

 Sisters of St. Dominik, Maryknoll. Re- 

 ceived August 16. 1937. 



124802. BrassiCa 

 Brassicaceae. 



oleracea 



CAPITATA L. 



Cabbage. 



Originally from Japan. Japanese Rain- 

 tow cabbage, a variety with green, yellow, 

 and purple leaves mixed in the head. 



435769—42—2 



124802 and 124803— Continued. 



124803. VlGNA SESQUIPEDALIS (L.) Fru- 



wirth. Fabaceae. Asparagus-bean. 



Originally from China. Chinese Long 

 bean, a variety with long slender pods, 

 very good as "string beans." 



124804 and 124805. 



From Florida. Plants growing at the United 

 States Plant Introduction Garden. Coconut 

 Grove. Numbered in August 1937. 



124804. Congea tomentosa Roxb. Verbe- 

 naceae. 



A large deciduous climbing shrub with 

 ovate leaves about 3 inches long, heads of 

 3 to 9 small white flowers in immense ter- 

 minal panicles, and snowy white to violet 

 velvetlike involucral bracts. Native to In- 

 dia and Burma. 



124805. Manihot glaziovii Muell. Arg. 

 Euphorbiaceae. Ceara rubbertree. 



A medium-sized tree, native to southern 

 Brazil, with a rather dense crown of large 

 5-lobed peltate leaves, the lobes of which 

 are 3 to 4 inches long. The bark is 

 smooth, shiny brown, with a tendency to 

 peel loose around the trunk, strongly re- 

 sembling cherry-tree bark. The fruits are 

 round smooth capsules. 



For previous introduction see 88372. 



124806 to 124815. Solantjm tuberosum 

 L. Solanaceae. Potato. 



From Argentina. Tubers presented by the 

 Ministry of Agriculture. Buenos Aires. Re- 

 ceived August 18, 1937. 



124806. Runa. From Tilcara, Jujuy Prov- 

 ince. 



124807. Morada. From Tilcara, Jujuy Prov- 

 ince. 



124808. Runa. From La Banda, Tilcara, 

 Jujuy Province. 



124809. Collareja. From Tilcara, Jujuy 

 Province. 



124810. Collareja. From Tilcara, Jujuy 

 Province. 



124811. Criolla. From Potrero de Diaz, 

 Salta Province. 



124812. Silvestre. From Lago Pule, Chu- 

 but Territory. 



124813. Silvestre. From La Pampa. 



124814. Collareja. From Tilcara, Jujuy 

 Province. 



124815. Collareja. From Tilcara, Jujuy 

 Province. 



124816 to 124821. Triticum aestivum L. 

 Poaceae. Common wheat. 



From Australia. Seeds from the New Eng- 

 land Experiment Farm, Glen Innes, pre- 

 sented by Dr. H. Wenholz, Director of 

 Plant Breeding. Department of Agriculture, 

 Sydney, New South Wales. Received Au- 

 gust 16, 1937. 



124816. Svalofs Extra Koloen II C 10258. 



124817. Svalofs Fylgia C. 10261. 



124818. Cross No. 7 C. 10849. 



124819. Eng. 3 C. 5261. 



124820. Orhurhia C. 6538. 



124821. Vencedor C. 8682. 



