4 PLANT INVENTORY NO. 139 



132293. (Undetermined.) 



From China. Seeds presented by A. N. Steward, College of Agriculture and 

 Forestry, Nanking University, Nanking. Received April 30, 1934. Numbered 

 in April 1939. 



No. 75. Collected on a rocky slope at 600 feet altitude in Chang An, Yung 

 Hsien. A tree with green fruits. 



132294. Coccocypselum gakdneri Standley. Rubiaceae. 



From Brazil. Seeds collected by Dr. Doris Cochran, United States National 

 Museum, Washington, D. C. Received November 7, 1935. Numbered in 

 April 1939. 



No. 16. Collected at Ouro Preto, Minas Geraes. 



132295. (Undetermined.) 



From Ceylon. Seeds collected by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 United States Department of Agriculture. Received April 21, 1936. Num- 

 bered in April 1939. 



No. 172-C. From Kandy. A plant with clusters of pure-white flowers. 



132296 to 132298. 



From Brazil. Seeds collected by W. A. Archer, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 United States Department of Agriculture. Received in October 1936. Num- 

 bered in April 1939. 



132296. Cooos sp. Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



No. 4048. From Fazenda Morro Redondo, near Lavras, eastern Minas 

 Geraes, September 20, 1936. A dwarf palm. 



132297. Aeecasteum romanzoffianum (Cham.) Beccari. Phoenicaceae. 



Palm. 



No. 4044. From Lavras, Minas Geraes, September 19, 1936. A palm, native 

 to Brazil, with an unarmed trunk about 20 feet high and 1 foot in diameter, 

 bearing a crown of plumelike leaves 12 to 15 feet long. The fruit is a pale- 

 orange drupe about the size of a large acorn. 



For previous introduction see 119097. 



132298. Cocos sp. Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



No. 4078. From Mendanhya, September 24, 1936. A palm with nuts 1 

 inch long and about % inch in diameter. 



132299. Ptychosperma sp. Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



From Washington, D. C. Seeds collected by O. F. Cook, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 United States Department of Agriculture. Received June 11, 1937. Num- 

 bered in April 1939. 



Plants growing in the United States Botanic Garden ; origin not known, but 

 native to the Malay region. A slender pinnate-leaved palm with long narrow 

 pinnae, producing offshoots. The inflorescence has rather thick fleshy branches, 

 clothed at first with brownish scalelike material. The fruits, % inch long with 

 a narrow conic beak, are first pale green and turn scarlet when ripe. 



132300 to 132350. 



From France. Plants purchased from E. Turbat & Cie., Orleans. Received, 

 April 3, 1939. 



132300 to 132312. Ceanothtjs spp. Rhamnaceae. 



132300. Ceanothtjs. 

 Var. Aldus Plenus. 



132301. Ceanothtjs deliliantjs Spach. 

 132302 and 132303. Ceanothtjs caertji^etjs Lag. 



132302. Var. Grandiflorus. 



132303. Var. Intermedins, 



