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153656. Lactuca sativa L. Cichoriaceae. Garden lettuce. 



From Arizona. Seeds presented by the Salt River Valley Vegetable Research 

 Farm, Tempe. Received March 5, 1946. 



Imperial 1+10. 



153657. Medicago sativa L. Fabaceae. Alfalfa. 



From Canada. Seeds presented by the Dominion Forage Crops Laboratory, 

 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Received March 5, 1946. 



Viking S-897. 



153658. Panicum maximum Jacq. Poaceae. Guinea grass. 



From Washington, D. C. Seeds presented by the Office of Foreign Agricultural 

 Relations, United States Department of Agriculture. Received Feb. 27, 1946. 



Originally from El Salvador. 



153659. (Undetermined.) 



From China. Trees presented by Maj. R. D. Wolcot, Port Command, HQ, 

 Shanghai. Received March 6, 1946. 



Received under the name "Chinese plum." 



153660 to 153676. 



From Africa. Seeds presented by C. J. J. van Rensburg, Rietondale Station, 

 Pretoria, Transvaal, Union of South Africa. Received Feb. 18, 1946. 



Unless otherwise mentioned, material was collected in the Transvaal. 



153680. Acacia caffra (Thunb.) Willd. Mimosaceae. 



Wait-a-bit. 



153661. Acacia galpinii Burtt-Davy. 



A tree about 40 feet high, with sharply hooked spines at the base of the 

 pinnate leaves, which are 3 to 5 inches long. The flowers are light yellow, and 

 are in axillary fascicled spikes about 2 inches long. 



153662. Digitaria sp. Poaceae. 



Woolly Finger Grass. Border of the Kalahari Desert, Bechuanaland. 



153663. Digitaria smutsii Stent. 



153664. Digitaria violascens Link. 



153665. Panicum sp. Poaceae. 



Kabulabula, on the Chobi River, Kalahari Desert, Bechuanaland. 

 153666 to 153670. Panicum maximum Jacq. Guinea grass. 



153666. A Rhodesian strain. 



153667. Duwenya, Nyasaland. 



153668. Nanyuki, on the border of the Yukama Desert, northern Kenya. 



153669. Kavorondo, swamps of Lake Victoria, Tanganyika. 



153670. Lilongue. 



153671 to 153673. Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link. Poaceae. 

 153871. Lysamas, Yurkana Desert, northern Kenya. 



153672. Ngamiland, Bababi Flats, Kalahari Desert, Bechuanaland. 



153673. Loliondo. 



153674 and 153675. Setaria sp. Poaceae. 

 Chobi River swamp area in the Kalahari Desert, Bechuanaland. 



153674. Kabulabula. 



153675. Kazungula. 



