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263255. ERMOCITRUS GLAUCA Swingle Rutaceae. 
Australian desert kumquat. 
From Australia. Seeds presented by the Commonwealth Scientific and In- 
dustrial Research Organization, Canberra. Numbered Jan. 21, 1960. 
Soil limestone, sandy loam. Shrub to about 10 feet high. 
263256 and 265257. 
From Great Britain. Seeds presented by E. J. Williams, St. Austell, Corn- 
wall, England. Numbered Jan. 25, 1960. 
263256. MAGNOLIA NITIDA W. W. Smith. Magnoliaceae. 
263257. MICHELIA CHAMPACA L. Magnoliaceae. 
‘Doltsopa’. : 
263258. CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS L. Solanaceae.  § Redpepper. 
From the Union of South Africa. Seeds presented by the Wonderhoogte 
Farm, Utrecht, Natal. Numbered Jan. 25, 1960. 
From India but grown in South Africa for years. Collected in sheltered 
location at 6,000 feet elevation. Plant perennial, lives about 6 years, gener- 
ally deciduous. 
263259 to 263269. RAPHANUS SATIVUS L. Brassicaceae. 
Radish. 
From Japan. Seeds presented by the Fujita Seed Company, Osaka. Num- 
bered Jan. 25, 1960. 
263259. ‘Ishikawa’. 
263260. ‘Minokunichi Improved’. Spring type. Selection from 
‘Minowase’. Roots cylindrical, glistening, pure white; flesh fine 
grained; leaves light green. 
263261. ‘Mino-Yombai’ or ‘Mino Tetra’. Tetraploid fall type. Plants 
vigorous, long standing, resistant to clubroot (Plasmodiophora brasst- 
cae); roots cylindrical, to 26 inches long and 3.5 inches in diameter, 
weighing to 8 lbs, white, sweet, fine grained. 
263262. ‘Minowase’. Summer type, heat and disease resistant; roots cy- 
lindrical, to 26 inches long, 3.5 inches diameter, juicy, crisp, mildly 
pungent. Matures in 50 to 53 days from summer sowing and 53 to 58 
days from spring or fall sowing. 
263263. ‘Miyashige’. Fall type. Roots to 17 inches long, 2.5 inches di- 
ameter, cylindrical, white with green top; flesh white, solid, crisp, 
pungent. Matures in 80 to 92 days. 
263264. ‘Osaka Shijyunichi’. Early spring type. Roots to 11 inches 
long, 1.75 inches diameter, white; leaves soft, hairless, unlobed, light 
green. Matures in 50 days. 
263265. “Sakurajima Mammoth’. Winter type. Root globe shaped, 
weighing to 65 pounds in mild winter climate; flowers purple. Matures 
in 182 days. 
263266. ‘Shogoin’. Fall type. Root globe shaped, to 7.5 lbs.; flesh white, 
crisp, juicy, sweet; used as cooked vegetable. Sown mid-August, ma- 
tures late October. 
263267. ‘Temna’. 
263268. ‘Tokinashi-All Season’. Roots to 15 inches long, 2.5 inches diam- 
eter, tapering to sharp tip; flesh fine grained, crisp, very pungent. May 
be planted whenever temperature is above freezing. 
263269. ‘Wakayama’. 
