46 PLANT INVENTORY NO. 134 



127519 to 127621— Continued 



127613. No. 4089. Fruit globose, 8 inches in diameter, orange red, ribs cream, 

 faintly indented, the whole fruit more or less blotched with gray green; 

 flesh 1 inch thick, pale yellow. 



Nos. 127614 and 127615. From Kang, November 4 and 5, at 1,700 feet 

 altitude. 



127614. No. 4152. Fruit 10 inches across, creamy white, ribs obscurely in- 

 dented; flesh 2% inches thick, yellow, texture good. 



127615. No. 4153. Fruit 18 by 7 inches, body green, washed with orange and 

 blotched with whitish stripes; ribs obscure; flesh orange, 1% inches 

 thick. 



Nos. 127616 and 127617. From Maimana, November 18, at 2,000 feet 

 altitude. 



127616. No. 4229. Fruit 12 by 9 inches with indented stem, coral pink with 

 gray green blotching; flesh 2% inches thick, bright orange. 



127617. No. 4230. Tamba Kadu. Fruit flattened, 14 by 10 inches, brown 

 green, flecked with paler green, ribbed and rib lined with lead green ; 

 flesh orange, 2% inches thick. 



Nos. 127618 and 127619. From Kabul, December 12 and 13. 



127618. Fruit flattened, 10 by 14 inches, cream tinged pink, ribs deep ; flesh 

 orange, 2 inches thick, texture good. 



127619. No. 4321. Fruit pear-shaped, 10 inches high, orange, very warty; 

 eaten while immature. 



Nos. 127620 and 127621. From Herat, November 12 and 13, at 3,000 feet 

 altitude. 



127620. No. 4162. Fruit 10 by 5 inches, whitish green with a soft rind ; flesh 

 l 1 /^ inches thick, creamy white. 



127621. No. 4184. Said to be white. 



127622. Brachiaria dictyoneura (Fig. and De Not.) Stapf. Poaceae. 



Grass. 



From Transvaal, Union of South Africa. Seeds presented by D. Meredith, 

 African Explosives and Industries, Ltd., Johannesburg. Received February 

 28, 1938. 



A tufted perennial with ascending stems iy 2 to 3 feet high. Native to tropical 

 Africa. The grass grows well on very poor soils, forming a dense, fairly palatable 

 sward, and has the advantage that it can be readily established from seed. 



127623 to 127632. 



From Scotland. Seeds presented by Sir William Wright Smith, Regius Keeper, 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Received February 26, 1938. 



127623. Colchicum sp. Melanthiaceae. 



Received under the name "fimbriatum," for which a place of publication has 

 not been found. 



127624. Impatiens roylei Walp. Impatientaceae. Snapweed. 



An erect annual 4 or 5 feet high, with ovate to ovate-lanceolate leaves and 

 dark-purple, short-spurred flowers on long stalks. Native to the temperate 

 slopes of the western Himalayas from Nepal to Marri, India, between 6,000 

 and 8,000 feet altitude. 



For previous introduction see 28221. 



127625. Lilitjm lankongense Franch. Liliaceae. 



A Martagon lily with rigid stem up to 4 feet high, many scattered oblong 

 to oblong-lanceolate leaves crowded on the basal half of the stem, and fragrant 

 white flowers flushed with rose purple, solitary, paired, or in racemes of 2 to 

 12. Native to alpine and subalpine regions of western China. 



