JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 1938 7 



126601 to 126799. Euchlaena mexicana SchracL Poaceae. Teosinte. 



From Guatemala. Seeds collected by Raymond Stadelman, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. Received January 10, 

 1938. 



126601 to 126741. Collected in the vicinity of Los Chilamates. 



126742 to 126747. Collected in the vicinity of Jutiapa. 



126748 to 126799. Collected in the vicinity of El Progreso. 



126800. Solanum tuberosum L. Solanaceae. Potato. 



From Ecuador. Tubers presented by the Director, Instituto de Fomento Ag- 

 ricola, Cuenca. Received January 11, 1938. 



Chio potato. 



126801 to 126810. Triticum aestivum L. Poaceae. Common wheat. 



From India. Seeds presented by the Imperial Economic Botanist, Imperial Ag- 

 ricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. Received January 11, 1938. 



126801. Pusa b. 126806. Pusa 111. 



126802. Pusa 12. 126807. Pusa 114. 



126803. Pusa 52. 126808. Pusa 120. 



126804. Pusa 80-5. 126809. Pusa 125. 



126805. Pusa 101. 126810. Pusa 165. 



126811 to 126818. 



From Italy. Plants purchased from Arturo Ansaloni, Bologna. Received 

 January 19, 1938. 



126811 to 126815. Prunus avium L. Amygdalaceae. Sweet cherry. 



126811. Bella di BarbanU. 126814. Durona delVAnella. 



126812. Di Modena Precoce. 126815. Durona di Cesena. 



126813. Di Modena Tardiva. 



126816 to 126818. Pyrus communis L. Malaceae. Common pear. 



126816. Francescina. 126818. Spadoncino. 



126817. Mora. 



126819 and 126820. Arum spp. Araceae. 



From the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Seeds presented by Prof. A. A. 

 Grossheim, Director, Botanic Garden, Baku. Received January 22, 1938. 



126819. Arum orientale Bieb. 



An arum with a discoid tuber and petioles 3 or 4 times as long as the blades, 

 which are often black-spotted, hastate-sagittate, the lobes ovate-triangular, 

 often obtuse. The spathe has an oblong tube y 2 to % as long as the intensely 

 purple or black lamina. The spadix is half as long as the spathe, with a stalk 

 dilated into a club-shaped purplish appendix. Native to the Caucasus region. 



126820. Arum elongatum Stev. 



An arum about a foot high,, with brownish, broadly hastate-sagittate leaves. 

 The spathe tube is oblong-ovoid, white within, with the limb intensely black 

 purple. Native to Asia Minor. 



126821. Solanum tuberosum L. Solanaceae. Potato. 



From Peru. Tubers collected by H. L. Blood, Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Logan, Utah, in cooperation with the Division of Fruit and Vegetable Crops 

 and Diseases, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of 

 Agriculture. Received January 21, 1938. 



[Received without notes.] 



