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127519 to 127621— Continued 



127597. No. 4165. Pilau Kadu. From Herat, November 12, at 3,000 feet 

 altitude. Fruit with neck, 12 inches long, pink buff with more or less 

 clouding of green, ribs indented ; flesh orange, 1 inch thick, texture good. 



Nos. 12759S to 127602. From Maimana, October 15 to 18, at 2,000 feet 

 altitude. 



127598. No. 4212. Pilau Kadu. Fruit with neck, 18 inches long, buff pink, 

 blotched with paler pink ; flesh orange. 



127599. No. 4213. Pilau Kadu. Fruit triangular spheroid, 12 inches in diam- 

 eter, orange buff, blotched with paler buff, ribs deep and irregular; flesh 

 orange, 1% inches thick. 



127600. No. 4215. Tambal Kadu. Fruit subglobose, 12 inches in diameter, 

 gray green, indented at stem end ; ribs obscure ; flesh 2 inches thick, bright 

 orange. 



127601. No. 4228. MaJcai Kadu. Fruit 16 by 14 inches, gray green, ribs 

 broad and deep ; flesh 2V 2 inches thick, bright orange. 



127602. No. 4231. Fruit 15 by 14 inches, pale coral pink with some greenish 

 blotchings ; rib stripes of light green ; flesh 2% inches thick, orange. 



127603. No. 4029. From Kandahar, October 23, at 5,000 feet altitude. Fruit 

 subglobose, 4 inches in diameter ; shell hard, orange, slightly warty ; flesh 

 orange to green next the rind, not bitter and said to be edible, probably 

 when young and tender. 



127604 to 127621. Cuctjrbita fepo L. Pumpkin. 



127604. No. 3946. From Ghazni, October 8, at 8,000 feet altitude. Fruit 12 by 

 7 inches, cream ; ribs obscurely indented ; flesh l 1 /-? to 3 inches thick, creamy 

 white, texture good. 



127605. No. 3954. From Mukkur, October 10, at 8,500 feet altitude. Fruit 

 yellow with confused and overlapping netting of green ; rib lines green, 

 more or less clearly marked ; flesh l 1 /^ inches thick, pale yellow. 



Nos. 127606 and 127607. From Andkhin, October 23 and 24, at 1,500 feet 

 altitude. 



127606. No. 4263. Fruit 10 by 5 inches, orange mottled with paler orange 

 and striped with yellow, shell hard ; flesh orange, l 1 /^ inches thick. 



127607. No. 4268. Fruit 12 by 6 inches ; shell hard, ocher, mottled with yel- 

 low; flesh 1% inches thick, orange. 



127608. No. 3923. Kadu. From Ghazni, October 7, at 8,000 feet altitude. 

 Fruit 12 by 10 inches, whitish and heavily hairlined with grass green ; ribs 

 broadly spaced and faintly indented, often broken ; flesh pale orange yellow, 

 2y 2 inches thick, not sweet ; texture good. 



127609. No. 3960. From Chahjui, October 12, at 8,000 feet altitude. Fruit 12 

 by 8 inches, orange red, rib stripes narrow, greenish ; flesh 1 inch thick, 

 yellow. 



127610. No. 3993. KaTyuli Kadu. From Khalat, October 13, at 8,000 feet 

 altitude. Fruit 20 by 11 inches, orange red with narrow and broken 

 streaks of yellow; ribs obscurely indented, belly green; flesh yellow, 1% 

 inches thick on belly to 3 inches thick on back. 



127611. No. 4058. From Kandahar, October 23, at 5,000 feet altitude. Fruit 

 acorn-shaped, 1 foot across, splashed and rib lined with green, ribs obscure ; 

 flesh orange, 1% inches thick, texture good. 



Nos. 127612 and 127613. From Girishk, October 27. 



127612. No. 4075. Fruit 18 by 9 inches, orange with narrow, often incom- 

 plete stripes, rather regular and whitish; belly gray green; flesh 2 

 inches thick, yellow. 



