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134416. Arenga wightii Griff. Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



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

 Coconut Grove. Numbered November 10, 1939. 



A monoecious palm forming dense clumps with gray trunks 3 to 30 feet high 

 and 1 foot in diameter ; the leaves, 12 to 28 feet long, dark green above and white 

 beneath, are composed of linear-ensiform, auricled leaflets 1 to Sy 2 feet long; 

 the pendulous spadices are nearly 4 feet long and the globose fruits are 1 inch in 

 diameter. Native to the Deccan Peninsula at altitudes of 500 to 3,000 feet. 



134417 and 134418. Lycopersicon hirsutum Humb. and Bonpl. 

 Solanaceae. Tomato. 



From Ecuador. Seeds presented by G. M. Dyott, through A. T. Nester, American 

 Consul, Guayaquil. Received November 10, 1939. 



Wild tomato seed from the Hacienda Tambo Grande, Km. 38, Ferrocarril a la 

 Costa, Guayaquil, October 1939. 



134417. Fruit greenish yellow with no purple tint, but soft and apparently ripe. 



134418. Fruit green with purple lines and flush. 



134419. Saccharum. Poaceae. Sugarcane. 



From Australia. Cuttings presented by Garage A. Roger, Noumea, New Cale- 

 donia, through C. Sullivan, Ltd., Sydney. Received November 10, 1939. 



134420 to 134438. 



From New Zealand. Plants purchased from Arthur Yates & Co., Ltd., Auckland. 

 Received November 13, 1939. 



134420 to 134426. Amygdalus persica L. Amygdalaceae. Peach. 



134420. Delicious. 134424. Pink Double Flowering. 



134421. Golden Beauty. 134425. Scarlet Double Flowering. 



134422. Nahuta. 134426. White Double Flowering. 



134423. Paragon. 



134427 and 134428. Amygdalus peesica var. nectaeina Ait. Nectarine. 



134427. Neiv Boy. 134428. Twyford Surprise. 



134429 to 134432. Malus sylvesteis Mill. Malaceae. Apple. 



134429. Albany Beauty. 134431. Mobb's Royal. 



134430. Kidd's Orange Red. 134432. Paulin's Beauty. 



134433. Petjnus aemeniaca L. Amygdalaceae. Apricot. 



Roxburgh Red. 

 134434 to 134437. Petjnus spp. 



134434 and 134435. Peunus domestica L. Plum. 



134434. Golden Prune. 



134435. Jenkins Seedling Prune. 



134436. Peunus. 

 Christmas Red Plum. 



134437. Peunus salicina Lindl. Japanese plum. 

 Satsuma Hybrid. 



134438. Rheum bhaponticum L. Polygonaceae. Common rhubarb. 



Champion Seedless. 



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