12 PLANT INVENTORY NO. 137 



130735. Calocarpum sapota (Jacq.) Merr. Sapotaceae. Sapote. 



From the Canal Zone. Seeds presented by the Canal Zone Experiment Garden, 

 Summit. Received October 27, 1938. 



For previous introduction see 103411. 



130736. Pigafettia elata (Mart.) Wendl. Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



From Sumatra. Seeds presented through Col. R. H. Montgomery, Coconut Grove, 

 Fla. Numbered October 28, 1938. 



A tall ornamental palm with a stout trunk, spiny on the upper part and with 

 spreading pinnate foliage resembling that of the coconut palm. Native to the 

 East Indies. 



For previous introduction see 98504. 



130737 to 130739. Citrus auranttfolia (Christm.) Swingle. Ruta- 

 ceae. 



From Trinidad, British West Indies. Scions presented by C. C. Skeete, As- 

 sistant Commissioner of Agriculture, Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain. 

 Received October 28, 1938. 



130737. T-U t 5. 130739. Kudzi Nebu. 



130738. Spineless. 



130740. Hordeum vulgare var. coeleste L. Poaceae. 



Six-rowed barley. 



From the Orkney Islands. Seeds presented through Collingwood Ingram, Benen- 

 den, Kent, England. Received October 31, 1938. 



Bere. From the island of Hoy. A barley which requires (or at least thrives 

 under) warm, rainy, and rather sunless conditions. 



130741. Zephyranthes citrina Baker. Amaryllidaceae. 



From Nassau, British West Indies. Seeds presented by William A. Geiger, Miami 

 Beach, Fla. Received in 1937. Numbered November 9, 1938. 



A zephyranthes with a lemon-chrome (Ridgway) flower about 2 inches across, 

 borne on a stalk 10 or 12 inches high. The plant grows wild in the fields in the 

 vicinity of Fort Fincastle, Nassau. It is very attractive for mass planting, and 

 it seeds freely. 



130742. Ptychoraphis augusta (Kurz) Beccari. Phoenicaceae. 



Palm. 



From the Canal Zone. Seeds presented by the Canal Zone Experiment Gardens, 

 Summit. Received October 31, 1938. 



A very tall feather palm from 80 to 100 feet high and 1 foot in diameter at 

 the base. The crown of leaves, 8 to 12 feet long, with leaflets 2 to 3 feet long, 

 makes a most graceful object in the landscape. Native to the Nicobar Islands, 

 India. 



For previous introduction see 99629. 



130743. Berberis sp. Berberidaceae. • Barberry. 



From Nepal. Seeds presented by Collingwood Ingram, Benenden, Kent, England. 

 Received November 2, 1938. 



130744. Myrciaria cauliflora (Mart.) Berg. Myrtaceae. 



Jaboticaba. 



From Florida. Plants growing at the United States Plant Introduction Garden, 

 Coconut Grove. Numbered November 5, 1938. 



A tree up to 35 feet high, with narrowly elliptic, acuminate leaves, short 

 pedicelled flowers produced directly from the bark of the trunk and branches, 

 and purplish-violet, globose, edible fruits up to nearly 2 inches in diameter. 

 Native to Brazil. 



For previous introduction see 114690. 



