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131720 to 131743.— Continued. 



131729. Comandante. 



131730. Dell' I sola. 



131731. 9 Maggio. 



131732. Prunus cerasus JL. Sour cherry. 



Marenone di Verona. 

 131733 to 131737. Prunus AVIUM L. Sweet cherry. 



131733. Marosticana. 



131734. Moretta di Cesena. 



131735. Neva di Bolzano. 



131736. Precoce di Boitzenburg. 



131737. Precoce di Bolzano. 



131738 to 131740. Prunus domestica L. Common pium. 



131738. Casalinga. 



131739. Delia Bosnia. 



131740. Di Francoforte. 



131741. Prunus salicina Lindl. Japanese plum. 

 Florenzia. 



131742 and 131743. Pyrus communis L. Malaceae. Common pear. 



131742. Armello. 



131743. Professor Molon. 



131744. Arachis hypogaea L. Fabaceae. Peanut. 



From China. Seeds presented by K. S. Liu, Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Tingfan, Kweichow, at the request of Dr. G. K. Middleton, Raleigh, N. C. 

 Received March 7, 1939. 



131745 to 131748. 



From Mexico. Seeds presented by Mrs. Natalie Balls, Oakfields, Knebworth, 

 Herts, England. Received February 28, 1939. 



131745. Calochortus barbatus (H. B. K.) Painter (C. flavits Schult. 1). 

 Liliaceae. 



B-5219. From Toluca at 8,000 feet altitude. A herbaceous perennial with 

 gray foliage, simple or branching slender stems up to 2 feet high, narrow 

 linear leaves, and nodding deep-yellow flowers. This differs from most of 

 the species native to the United States in having fibrous-coated bulbs. 

 Native to the plateau region of Mexico. 



131746. Cestrum sp. Solanaceae. 



B. 4367. A stiff, upright branching shrub up to 2 1/2 feet high, collected 

 on Mount Orizaba at 9,200 feet altitude, in the shade of hedgerows. The 

 tubular scarlet flowers are 1 1/2 inches long and the berries are red. 



131747. Lupinus geophilus Rose. Fabaceae. 



B. 5064. From Toluca at 9,700 feet altitude. A prostrate herbaceous 

 perennial, often forming a dense mat, with dark-blue flowers in dense 

 spikelike racemes about 4 inches long. Native to open places in central 

 Mexico. 



131748. Oxytropis sp. Fabaceae. 



B. 4462. From Sierra Negra at 10,400 feet altitude, found growing on 

 dry lands among rough grass and shrubs. A bushy tufted plant with both 

 stems and leaves gray hairy. The brilliant-scarlet flowers, 2 1/2 inches 

 long, are borne stiffly on upright stems 10 inches tall. 



