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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



76610 to 76634— Continued. 



76627. (Undetermined.) 



No. 182. September, 1925. Growing at 

 Kisaran, Asahan, at an altitude of 50 feet. 



76628. (Undetermined.) 

 No. 183. 



76629. (Undetermined.) 



No. 184. September, 1925. Growing at 

 Kisaran, Asahan, at an altitude of 50 feet. 



76630. (Undetermined.) 



No. 195. October, 1925. Growing at Marbau, 

 Koealoe, at an altitude of 50 feet. 



Nos. 76631 to 76633. August, 1925. Growing at 

 Poeloe Mandi, Asahan, at an altitude of 75 feet. 



76631. (Undetermined.) 

 No. 295. 



76632. (Undetermined.) 

 No. 297. 



76633. (Undetermined.) 

 No. 298. 



76634. (Undetermined.) 



No. 299. July, 1925. Growing at Bandar 

 Poeloe, Asahan, at an altitude of 400 feet. 



76635. Adansonia digitata L. Bom- 

 bacaceae. Baobab. 



From St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Seeds presented 

 by J. B. Thompson, Director of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at St. Croix. Received 

 April 24, 1928. 



Guinea Tamarind tree. An African tree about 

 60 feet high and sometimes 30 feet in diameter, with 

 palmate leaves divided into five to seven lanceolate 

 leaflets, large white flowers fi inches across, and large 

 gourdlike fruits the pulp of which is edible. The 

 tree from which these seeds were taken measures 

 40 feet in circumference. 



For previous introduction see No. 70895. 

 76636 to 76642. 



From Blackwood, South Australia. Seeds pre- 

 sented by Edwin Ashby. Received April 27, 

 1928. 



76636. Banksia coccinea R. Br. Proteaceae. 



An erect shrub, 12 to 15 feet high, native to 

 Western Australia, with broadly ovate leaves 

 2 to 3 inches long, and globular spikes, 2 inches 

 in diameter, of brilliant red flowers. 



76637. Beaufortia purpurea R. Br. Myrta- 



A Western Australian evergreen shrub with 

 wandlike branches, opposite lanceolate leaves 

 one-fourth of an inch long, and small purple 

 flowers in dense heads. 



76638. Cassia sp. Caesalpiniaceae. 



A shrub or small tree native to Western 

 Australia, with very graceful pinnate leaves. 



76639. Grevillea banksd. R. Br. Proteaceae. 



Variety Fosteri. An Australian evergreen 

 shrub, 6 to 8 feet high, with red flowers. 



For previous introduction see No. 75563. 



76640. Grevillea pritzeiu Diels. Proteaceae. 



An Australian evergreen shrub with brownish 

 pubescent branchlets, linear falcate leaves 3 to 5 

 inches long, and racemes, 2 to 3 inches long, of 

 white flowers covered with dense white tomen- 

 turn. 



76636 to 76642— Continued. 



76641. Hovea pungexs Benth. Fabaceae. 



A rigidly erect evergreen shrub 1 to 2 feet 

 high, native to Western Australia, with linear- 

 lanceolate coriaceous sharp-pointed leaves less 

 than an inch long, and axillary clusters of small 

 purplish flowers. 



76642. Hovea trisperma Benth. Fabaceae. 



A Western Australian evergreen undershrub, 

 1 to 2 feet high, with ovate to linear leaves 1 to 3 

 inches long and axillary clusters of rather large 

 bluish flowers. 



76643 to 76645. 



From Mafeteng, Basutoland, South Africa. Pre- 

 sented by Sister Mary Prisca Oswald, Mount 

 Olivet Mission. Received May 4, 1928. 



Iris sp. Iridaceae. 

 Roots of an African variety. 



76644. (Undetermined.) 

 Bulbs. 



76645. (Undetermined.) 

 Roots. 



76646 and 76647. Saccharum offici- 

 narum L. Poaceae. Sugarcane. 



From Cheribon, Java. Cuttings presented by 

 Dr. G. Wilbrink. Received May 7, 1928. 



76646. [Received without notes.] 



76647. Glagah. 



76648 and 76649. 



From China. Rhizomes collected by F. A. 

 McClure, agricultural explorer, Bureau of Plant 

 Industrv. Received January 26, 1926. Num- 

 bered May, 1928. 



76648. Arundinaria sp. Poaceae. Bamboo. 



No. 243. November 20, 1925. Man lei chuk. 

 Rhizomes (some with plants attached) obtained 

 about 3 miles southwest of Yunghui, Kwangsi, 

 where the bamboo was found growing half 

 cultivated on a steep, somewhat eroded hillside. 

 This is a very straight, rather smooth jointed 

 bamboo with stiff, upright branches in fascicles 

 at the nodes and with thick leaves. In good soil 

 it grows 5 or 6 meters high and. 1.5 to 2.5 centi- 

 meters in diameter. The young stems have 

 pith, and in the mature stems remnants of the 

 pith diaphrams persist. The walls of the culms 

 are medium in thickness. The smallest culms, 

 2 to 3 meters long, are used to make Chinese 

 pens, and the larger ones are used as clothes- 

 drying poles and mosquito-net poles. The 

 shoots" are edible. The rhizomes were found to 

 be growing in a granular, yellow-brown residual 

 soil. This bamboo is said to thrive best in a 

 loose, rich, well-drained soil where there is a 

 plentiful supply of moisture. Unlike those of 

 most of the bamboos of the monopodial type, the 

 rhizomes of this bamboo do not seem to have a 

 bud at every node, but only at infrequent 

 intervals. Also this bamboo has a tendency to 

 sprout up from the base of the plant, after the 

 fashion of bamboos of the sympodial type. It 

 may be. therefore, that this bamboo may best be 

 propagated by means of sections of rhizomes 

 to which a young plant is attached. 



76649. Phyllostachys sp. Poaceae. Bamboo. 



No. 248. November 22, 1925. Kan chuk. A 

 small monopodial bamboo growing wild along 

 the banks of the West River, near Wuchow, 

 Kwangsi. The culms are 1 to 1.5 meters high 

 and 1 to 1.5 centimeters in diameter. The 

 3-oung shoots, which begin to appear in April, 

 are edible and are considered very delicious by 

 the Chinese: it is not necessary to parboil them. 



