A PLANT INVENTORY NO. 141 



134297. Crocus sativus L. Iridaceae. 



From India. Bulbs purchased from G. Ghose & Co., Townend, Darjeeling. 

 Received October 28, 1939. 



A form with very dark-purple flowers. Introduced as Crocus Tcashmeriana ; 

 considered a form of the above. 



For previous introduction see 112110. 



134298. Amygdalus sp. Amygdalaceae. 



From Afghanistan. Seeds collected by Wilbur V. Harlan, collaborator, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. Received 

 September 22, 1939. Numbered in October 1939. 



Collected June 23, 1939, on a dry hillside above the lake on the Khalsijabbar 

 road to Jalalabad. 



134299. Pruntjs cerasus L. Amygdalaceae. Sour cherry. 



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

 United States Department of Agriculture. Received October 26, 1939. 



No. 4475. Alulalu. From Kabul, August 13, 1939. A somewhat flattened, 

 dark-red cherry about % inch in diameter. 



134300 and 134301. Hibiscus cannabinus L. Malvaceae. 



Ambari hemp. 



From India. Seeds presented by the Senior Marketing Officer, Civil Lines, Delhi, 

 through B. P. Pal, Imperial Economic Botanist, New Delhi. Received 

 October 27, 1939. 



For previous introduction see 133728. 



134302 to 134304. Amygdalus persica L. Amygdalaceae. Peach. 



From California. Plants growing at the United States Plant Introduction 

 Garden, Chico. Numbered November 1, 1939. 



134302. Selection (D-25-25) from P. I. 100633. 



134303. Selection from P. I. 87637. 



134304. C-27059. Bokhara, peach. 



134305. Centatjrea rothrockii Greenm. Asteraceae. 



From Maryland. Plants growing at the United States Plant Introduction Gar- 

 den, Glenn Dale. Numbered October 26, 1939. 



Originally collected as seeds in Colorado, Chiapas, Mexico, in 1936 by J. H. 

 Kempton, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. 



An annual with sparingly branched stems 1 to 3 feet high, lanceolate to oblong-* 

 lanceolate, sessile and often clasping leaves up to 5 inches long and large flower 

 heads with conspicuous, usually purple, rays much exceeding the lemon-yellow 

 disk flowers. Native to Arizona and Mexico. 



134306 to 134311. 



From Mexico. Seeds collected by Peter Heinz, Brownsville, Tex. Received 

 October 2, 1939. 



134306. Angelonia angusttfolia Benth. Scrophulariaceae. 



From a swamp in Tuzapan, Puebla. A glabrous herbaceous perennial up to 

 1 foot high with narrow-lanceolate toothed leaves and showy violet or purple 

 flowers in terminal racemes. Native to Mexico. 



134307. Castela texana (Torr. and Gray) Rose. Simaroubaceae. 



A dense shrub 3 to 8 feet high, with stiff whitish branches, simple leaves 

 about % inch long, small bright-red or purplish flowers, followed by small red 

 fruits. Native to southwestern Texas and Mexico. 



