PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



80036 to 80040. 



From Miyazaki, Japan. Cuttings presented 

 by Shigeki Matsubara, Miyazaki College 

 of Agriculture. Received May 6, 1929. 



80036. Pkdnds serrulata Lindl. Amyg- 

 dalaceae. Oriental cherry. 



Aohada. A variety used extensively 

 by the Japanese as a stock on which 

 tbe better varieties are grafted. 



80037 to 80040. Vitis vinifera L. Vita- 

 ceae. European grape. 



80037. Chikuma. 80039. KoshU. 



80038. Enshin. 80040. Zenkdji. 



80041. Castanopsis sp. Fagaceae. 



Evergreen chinquapin. 



From Sandakan, British North Borneo. 

 Seeds presented by D. D. Wood, Con- 

 servator of Forests. Received April 22, 

 1929. 



80042. Bauhinia malabaeica R o x b . 

 Caesalpiniaceae. 



From Manila, Philippine Islands. Seeds 

 presented by P. J. Wester, Bureau of 

 Agriculture, Manila. Received April 13, 

 1929. 



A small erect bushy tree, with thick 

 rigid deeply bifid somewhat heart-shaped 

 leaves 2 to 3 inches long. The small white 

 flowers are in dense sessile axillary clus- 

 ters. The rather turgid, straight, firm, 

 narrow pods are a foot long. Its native 

 habitat is the mountainous country of 

 northeastern India. 



For previous introduction see No. 52746. 



80043. Spaetina townsendi H. and J. 

 Groves. Poaceae. Grass. 



From London, England. Seeds presented 

 by Prof. F. W. Oliver,* University Col- 

 lege, through H. N. Vinall, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. Received May 6, 1929. 



Seeds gathered from plants growing in 



the Netherlands which had originated in 



roots obtained from Poole, England, in 

 1925. 



For previous introduction and descrip- 

 tion see No. 80033. 



80044. Pinus insulaeis Endl. Pina- 

 ceae. Pine. 



From Manila, Philippine Islands. Seeds 

 presented by P. J. Wester, Bureau of 

 Agriculture, Manila. Received April 24, 

 1929. 



A tall 3-needle tropical pine which grows 

 on the highlands in the Philippine Islands 

 between altitudes of 3,000 and 8,000 feet. 

 The flaccid slender leaves are 7 to 9 inches 

 long, and the ovoid cones are about 3 

 inches long. 



80045. (Undetermined,) 



From West Africa. Seeds presented by 

 G. W. Harley, Methodist Episcopal 

 Mission, Ganta, Liberia. Received May 

 6, 1929. 



A shrub or small tree growing in the 

 interior of Liberia at an altitude of 1,000 

 feet. The fruits resemble the American 

 cultivated black cherry in flavor, though 

 they are much more acid, perhaps more 

 closely approaching the flavor of tbe cran- 

 berry. 



80046. Ipomoea macalusoi Mattei. 

 Convolvulaceae. Morning-glory. 



From Italian Somaliland, Africa. Seeds 

 collected by Dr. Mario Calvino, San 

 Remo, Italy. Received May 7, 1929. 



A very floriferous morning-glory, native 

 to Italian Somaliland, with pubescent 

 woody stems, broadly cordate villous leaves 

 on long petioles, and axillary cymes of 

 large campanulate orange-colored flowers 

 margined with red. 



80047. Ficus conoea King. Moraceae. 



Tig. 



From Summit, Canal Zone. Cuttings pre- 

 sented by J. E. Higgins, Director, Canal 

 Zone Experiment Gardens. Received 

 May 3, 1929. 



A tree, native to New Guinea, with softly 

 pubescent branchlets, lanceolate entire 

 leaves 7 inches long, pubescent beneath, 

 and turbinate fruits, an inch in diameter, 

 borne on long flexuose leaflless branches 

 arising at the base of the trunk. 



For previous introduction see No. 77658. 



80048. Caeica catjlifloea Jacq. Papa- 

 ya aceae. 



From Vera Cruz, Mexico. Seeds presented 

 by Dr. C. A. Purpus, Zacuapam, Hua- 

 tusco, Vera Cruz. Received April 29, 

 1929. 



This relative of the papaya is a tree 9 

 to 12 feet high, which is cultivated and 

 probably native to Central America and 

 Mexico. The trunk is crowned with large 

 leaves that are cordate at the base and 

 have the tip lobed about half way down 

 into acuminate segments. The inconspicu- 

 ous inodorous flowers are followed by ovoid 

 yellow fruits 3 to 4 inches long. 



80049. Cyeilla racemifloea L. Cyril- 

 laceae. Leatherwood. 



From Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. Seeds 

 purchased from Conyers B. Fleu. Re- 

 ceived April 29, 1929. 



A shrub or small tree Up to 30 feet high, 

 native from Virginia to Florida and Texas 

 and extending to the West Indies and 

 northern South America. The lustrous 

 bright-green oblong leaves, 2 to 3 inches 

 long, are evergreen in the South and turn 

 to orange and scarlet in the northern de- 

 ciduous form which is hardy as far north 

 as New York. The small white flowers are 

 borne in graceful racemes. 



80050 and 80051. Oeyza sativa L. 

 Poaceae. Rice. 



From Pargannas District, Bengal, India. 

 Seeds obtained through Robert Frazer, 

 American Consul General, Calcutta, 

 India. Received April 29, 1929. 



80050. Dakhina Patnai. A variety grown 

 in the saline southern tracts of Par- 

 gannas District, especially in the 

 Sunderbuns, the delta of the Ganges. 



80051. Uttara Patnai. A sweet variety 

 grown in the northern tract of Par- 

 gannas District. 



80052. Degtjelia trifoliata (Lour.) 

 Taub. (Derris uliginosa Benth.). 

 Fabacoae. 



From Buitenzorg, Java. Seeds presented 

 by Dr. W. M. Docters van Leeuwen, Di- 

 rector of the Java Botanic Gardens. Re- 

 ceived April 24, 1929. 



