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kilos. I think from what I have personally seen for years that the climate of 

 southern California may be a little colder than that of the Riviera, since so 

 many plants suffer in southern California which do not suffer here, and my 

 California correspondents confirm my earlier personal experience. Still I 

 think that the bamboo in question will grow, at least in all the sheltered parts 

 of southern California, and undoubtedly in places such as Santa Barbara and 

 3an Diego, where, as my correspondents write me, the same species resist as here 

 on the Riviera." (Proschoivsky.) 



40937. Meltlotus alba Desr. Fabacese. Melilot. 



From Changchun, Manchuria. Presented by Dr. R. J. Gordon, Irish Pres- 

 byterian Mission. Received July 8, 1915. 



40938 to 40969. Triticum spp. Poacese. Wheat. 



From Lyallpur, Punjab, India. Presented by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. Received July 15, 1915. 

 Quoted notes from Albert and Gabrielle L. C. Howard, Memoirs of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in India, vol. 2, no. 7. (The abbreviation D. means density 

 of ear. ) 



40938 to 40940. Triticum durum Desf. Durum wheat. 



40938. " Type No. 1. Var. melanopus Al. Awns long, black, but the 

 black colour is lost very easily ; chaff densely felted, white with a 

 pinkish tinge, often spotted with mould fungi ; grains long, amber, 

 generally hard and flinty, although occasionally mottled ones are 

 found ; density varies with the rankness of growth ; straw tall, 

 slender but stiff; somewhat liable to rust; ripens late. This is the 

 common macaroni wheat of the Punjab and was found in the Wada- 

 nak of Zira, Wadanak of Sialkot, Wadanak of Batala, Wadanak 

 Kaichingari of Montgomery, Wadanak of Amritsar, Dagar of Pind 

 Dadan Khan, Dagar of Wazirabad, Dagar of Shahpur, Pamman 

 of Ferozepore, Dagar of Muzaffargarh, Dagar of Multan, Dagar 

 of Montgomery, in the Wadanaks of Lyallpur, Ferozepore, and 

 Amritsar, and the Palestine of Lahore." 



40939. " Type No. 2. Var. africanum Kcke. Similar in most re- 

 spects to type 1, but the ears taper to a point and are slightly 

 longer ; grain very dark red, hard on the whole, with a very few 

 mottled grains ; length of ear 84 mm. ; D. [density of the ear]= 28. 

 This type is more liable to rust than type 1. This type was only 

 met with as an impurity in Wadanak Kaichingari of Montgomery." 



40940. " Type No. 3. Var. leucurum Al. Awns long, white with a 

 reddish tinge ; chaff smooth, shiny, white with a pinkish tinge due 

 to the veins on the glumes being red ; grain very long and thin, 

 white, much lighter in colour than type 1, generally very hard and 

 translucent, hardly a mottled grain to be found ; length of ear, 75 

 mm. ; D. = 22 ; straw good ; ripens late ; not so liable to rust as type 

 1. This type was only found as an impurity in the Wadanak of 

 Lyallpur in very small quantity. The grains of this wheat are so 

 long that in cleaning prior to grinding they would pass over standard 

 sieves with the large impurities," 



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