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44116. Ficus padifolia H. B. K. Moracese. 



Prom El Coyolar, Costa Rica. Presented by Mr. Carlos Werckle. Received 

 January 29, 1917. 

 " This tree differs completely from the rest of the genus in its superb form*. 

 It is very large and very dense and of an exceptionally beautiful color. It is 

 evergreen, while nearly all the other species are bare for a longer or shorter 

 time during the dry season. The fruit is apparently very much liked by birds, 

 and the trees are always full of little parrots. Plant in fibrous fern peat or in 

 turf with a little old mortar (ground) and a little charcoal dust or in common 

 vegetable peat with ground mortar (sand and lime) and charcoal dust." 

 (WerckU.) 



44117. Lycoperstcon esculentum Mill. Solanacese. Tomato. 



Prom Lima, Peru. Presented by Mr. E. E. Wright, at the request of Mr. 

 W. G. Bixby, Brooklyn, N. Y. Received February 16, 1917. 

 ''Cultivated Peruvian tomato from Lurin Valley." {Wright.) 



44118. Rhynchosia sp. Fabaceae. 



Prom El Coyolar, Costa Rica. Presented by Mr. Carlos Werckle. Re- 

 ceived January 29, 1917. 

 "Yellow retell. A small blooming annual forage plant, growing now in the 

 dry season, while the yellow sensitiva [S. P. I. No. 44113] is completely dried. 

 After the yellow sensitiva. our best soil enricher." (Werckle'.) 



44119. Psychotria bacteriophila Valet. Rubiacese. 



Prom Buitenzorg, Java. Roots presented by Mr. P. J. S. Cramer, chief, 

 Plant Breeding Station. Received February 14, 1917. 



A shrub, 2 to 3 meters high, native of the Comoro Islands, Madagascar. The 

 elliptic or ovate-oblong, fleshy, dark-green leaves are short petioled and usually 

 thickly covered with little tubercles formed by bacteria. The greenish white 

 flowers are in numerous dense thyrses up to 3 inches long, and the frirts are 

 subglobular drupes about a quarter of an inch in diameter. (Adapted from 

 Valeton, Icones Bogorienses, vol. 3, pi, 271.) 



See also S. P. T. No. 44295 in this inventory for notes on these bacterial leaf 

 nodules in the Rubfacese. 



44120 to 44122. Chayota edulis Jacquin. Cucurbitaceae. 



(Sechium edule Swartz.) Chayote. 



From Funcbal. Madeira. Presented by Mr. J.. E. Blandy. Received Febru- 

 ary 12, 1917. 

 'Pipinella or chu-chu." (Blandy.) 



44120. Large smooth green. 44122. Large smooth white. 



44121. Medium spiny green. 



44123 to 44126. 



From Cairo, Egypt. Presented by the director, Horticultural Division, 

 Ministry of Agriculture, Gizeh Branch. Received January 5, 1917. 

 44123. Cassia bicapsulaeis L. Causal piniaceae. 



A shrub, found throughout tropical and subtropical South America 

 and cultivated in tropical Asia, .2 to 3.5 meters high, with compound 



