APRIL 1 TO JUNE 3 0, 193 9 19 



132583 to 132586. Prunus spp. 



132583. Received as Cerasus mawimoviczii, a name for which a place of 

 publication has not been found. 



132584. Kosloivskaje. 



132585. Ozimaja Krasnaja, a plum. 



132586. Renclod Be forma, a plum. 



132587 and 132588. Prunus spinosa L. Sloe, blackthorn. 



132587. Tern Sladkyi. 



132588. Tern Dessertny. 



132589. Pyrus. Malaceae. Pear. 



Finlandskaja Zholtaja. 



132590. Sorghum sp. Poaceae. 



From British East Africa. Seeds presented by D. C. Edwards, Officer in Charge, 

 Grassland Improvement, Nairobi. Received April 11, 1939. 



A variety cultivated by the natives as a food crop. It is apparently perennial 

 and may have possibilities as a forage crop. 



132591 and 132592. 



From Puerto Rico. Seeds presented by Claud L. Horn, Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Mayaguez. Received April 11, 1939. 



132591. Persea krugh Mez. Lauranceae. 



Collected in the Maricao Forest. An evergreen tree, sometimes 45 feet high, 

 with oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, leathery leaves 2 to 4 inches long and globular, 

 black drupes about % inch in diameter. Native to Puerto Rico. 



132592. Tabebuia glomerata Urban. Bignoniaceae. 



A handsome tree about 30 feet high, with long-petioled 5-foliolate leaves with 

 obovate leaflets 2 to 6 inches long, acuminate at the apex. In late February, 

 when nearly leafless, it is covered with clusters of bright-yellow flowers about 

 % inch long. Native to Trinidad and Tobago. 



132593 to 132611. 



From England. Seeds presented by the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 

 Surrey. Received April 10, 1939. 



132593. Allium farreri W. T. Stearn. Liliaceae. 



An onion native to Siku, China, with 4 to 6 linear leaves 10 to 15 inches long 

 and lax umbels of 6 to 20 campanulate red-purple flowers. 



For previous introduction see 132067. 



132594. Acer griseum (Franch.) Pax. Aceraceae. Paperbaark maple. 

 A handsome maple up to 30 feet in height, native to western China. The 



coarsely toothed trifoliolate leaves are 1 to 2 inches long. The striking feature 

 of this maple is the cinnamon-brown papery bark which flakes off like that of 

 the river birch. 



For previous introduction see 97500. 



132595 to 132597. Deutzia spp. Hydrangeaceae. 



132595. Deutzia monbeigii W. W. Smith. 



For previous introduction and description see 132364. 



132596. Deutzia scabra Thunb. Fuzzy deutzia. 



132597. Deutzia sieboldiana Maxim. Siebold deutzia. 



This is the lowest growing of all the deutzias, of a very compact habit, 

 with small white, loose flower panicles which are not very conspicuous. Na- 

 tive to Japan. 



For previous introduction see 49943. 



