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79568 and 79569 — Continued. 



79568. GlGANTOCHLOA VERTICILLATA 



(Willd.) Munro. Poaceae. Bamboo. 



No. 732. Boeloeh Regen, Boeloeh Be- 

 langke. Sibolangit Botanic Garden. 

 March 28. 1926. A bamboo plant with 

 culms over 4 inches in diameter, wbich 

 is not the best of the giant clump bam- 

 boos in the mountains of Sumatra, but 

 is largely grown in the lowlands about the 

 kampongs because of its useful timber. 



79569. Globba sp. Zinziberaceae. 



No. 437. Sibolangit Botanic Garden. 

 February 24, 1926. Stolons of a herba- 

 ceous gingerlike plant with attractive 

 pink flowers, which should be useful as 

 a border plant in southern Florida and 

 Panama. 



79570. Livistona oliyaeformis Mart. 

 Phoenicaceae Palm. 



From Singapore. Straits Settlements. 

 Si eds collected by David Fairchild, agri- 

 cultural explorer. Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustrv, with the Allison V. Armour ex- 

 pedition. Received Julv 29. 1926. Num- 

 bered in March. 1929. 



No. 848. Singapore Botanic Gardens. 

 May 30. 1926. A small handsome fan- 

 leaved palm with olive-shaped, green to 

 purplish-green fruits. Native to Java. 



79571. MlLLINGTONIA HORTENSIS L. f. 



Bignoniaceae. 



From Peradeniya. Ceylon. Plants collected 

 by David Fairchild. agricultural explorer. 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, with the Alli- 

 son V. Armour expedition. Received 



Julv 19, l!'-'< : . 

 1929. 



Numbered in March, 



No. 893. Indian cork tree. Peradeniya 

 Botanic Garden, June 9, 1926. A tropical 

 avenue tree of erect habit, becoming 50 

 feet or more high. It has finely divided 

 leaves and pure-white fragrant long tubular 

 flow< rs which are borne twice a year, dur- 

 ing November and June. 



79572. Scibpus supinus L. Cypera- 

 ceae. Sedge. 



From Gold Coast. Africa. Plants collected 

 by David Fairchild. agricultural ex- 

 plorer. Bureau of Plant Industry, with 

 the Allison V. Armour expedition. Re- 

 ceived April 29. 1927. Numbered in 

 March. 1929. 



No. 1267. Dialamara. A sedge native to 

 tropical Africa, forming a solid field in a 

 moist boggy spot, several acres in extent. 

 north of Mamou. French Guinea. March 10, 

 1927. The natives say that in the dry sea- 

 son the cattle eat this to the exclusion of 

 other grasses which are at that time dried 

 up. Its succulent stems form a regular 

 turf on which the cattle walk. It should 

 be tried as fodder on swampy land. 



79573 to 79903. 



From Manchuria. Seeds presented by P. F. 

 Constatinoff. Harbin, through E. D. Mer- 

 rill, dean of the College of Agriculture 

 of the University of California. Berkeley. 

 Calif. Received in February, 1929. 



79573 to 79576. Chaetochloa italica 

 (L.) Scribn. (Setaria italica Beauv.). 

 Poaceae. Millet. 



From the Harbin Experiment Station. 

 79573. N 6. 79574. N 7. 



79573 to 79903— Continued. 



79575. N 11. 79576. N 23. 



79577. HORDEUM VULGARE PALLIDUM 



Seringe. Poaceae. Six-rowed barley. 



79578. Panicum miliacedm L. Poaceae 



Proso. 



N 6. From the Harbin Experiment 

 Station. 



79579 and 79580. Phaseolus angularis 

 (Willd.) W. F. Wight. Fabaceae. 



Adzuki bean. 



79579. N 257/1243. From the Anta 

 Experiment Station, Chinese Eastern 

 Railway. 



79580. From Fugdin, on the Sungari 

 River. 



79581 and 79582. Phaseolus aureus 

 Roxb. Fabaceae. Mung bean. 



79581. From Fugdin, on the Sungari 

 River. 



79582. N 297. From the Anta Experi- 

 ment Station, Chinese Eastern Rail- 

 way. 



79583 to 79887. Soja max (L.) Piper 



{Glycine hispida Maxim.). Fabaceae. 



Soybean. 



79583 to 79610. From the Anta Experi- 

 ment Station, Chinese Eastern Rail- 

 way. 



79583. N 42/1146. 



79584. N 123. 



79585. N 235/149 A. 



79586. N 236/149 G. 



79587. N 251/1261. 



79588. N 252/1263. 



79589. N 265/287 A. 



79590. N 254/1148. 



79591. N 260/75. 



79592. N 262/93. 



79593. N 265/100. 



79594. N 267/1229. 



79595. N 268/1230. 



79596. N 270/1234. 



79597. N 272/1236. 



79598. N 277/44. 



79599. N 279/56. 



79600. N 282/61. 



79601. N 286/3. 



79602. N 287/11. 



79603. N 288/12. 



79604. N 298/13. 



79605. N 240/225. 



79606. N 291/18. 



79607. N 292/21. 



79608. N 293/22. 



79609. N 247/1250. 



79610. N228. 



79611 to 79642. From the Echo Experi- 

 ment Station. 



79611. 



