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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



88348 to 88363— Continued. 



reddish-yellow bean which is planted 

 about June 1 and harvested the first 

 week in October. 



88362. No. 5731. Pakute (white). A 

 medium-small, oblong, slightly flat- 

 tened, glossy, yellow bean with brown 

 hilum which is planted June 15 and 

 harvested the first week in October. 



88363. No. 5732. Purukon (yellow). A 

 medium-large, oval, yellowish-brown 

 bean with yellow germ, which is 

 planted late in June and harvested 

 late in October. 



88364 to 88370. 



Prom Victoria, Cameroon, Africa. Seeds 

 presented by T. D. Maitland, Superin- 

 tendent. Botanic Gardens. Received 

 June 17, 1930. 



88364. Aristolochia goldieana Hook. f. 

 Aristolochiaceae. 



A perennial vine up to 20 feet long 

 with triangular-cordate leaves and large 

 flowers, greenish with red-purple ribs 

 outside and brown and yellow mottled 

 inside. The tube is more than a foot 

 long, and the spreading limb is a foot 

 in diameter. It is native to tropical 

 Africa. 



88365. Cacara erosa (L.) Kuntze (Pachy- 

 rMzu8 atigulatus Rich.). Pabaceae. 



Yam bean. 



Jacatupe. A twining, wiry-stemmed 

 plant occasionally grown in the West 

 Indies. The large, tuberous roots con- 

 tain much starch. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 76489. 



88366. Diospyros ebenaster Retz. Dios- 

 pyraceae. - Black sapote. 

 One of the most popular fruits of 



Mexico. In favorable situations the tree 

 is 60 feet high. The bright-green, shin- 

 ing leaves are 4 to 8 inches long. The 

 oblate, olive-green, thin-skinned fruit is 

 2 to 5 inches in diameter. The soft, 

 unctuous, dark chocolate-brown pulp is 

 of sweet flavor, somewhat similar to that 

 of the^kaki, but scarcely as pleasant. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 52377. 



88367. Funtumia elastica (Preuss) Stapf. 

 Apocynaceae. Lagos rubbertree. 

 A large forest tree widely distributed 



throughout central Africa and the source 

 of Lagos rubber, which is of excellent 

 quality. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 77393. 



88368. Gossypium sp. Malvaceae. 



Cotton. 



88369. Parkia filicoidea Welw. Mimosa- 

 ceae. 



A tropical tree up to 60 feet high, with 

 bipinnate leaves 1 to 2 feet long, made 

 up of six to nine pairs of pinnae, each 

 bearing 16 to 24 pairs of oblong leaflets 

 about an inch long. The scarlet flowers 

 are borne in club-shaped heads about 3 

 inches long and appear before the leaves. 

 It is native to tropical Africa. 



88370. Physostigma venenosdm Balfour. 

 Pabaceae. Calabar-bean. 

 A woody vine with trifoliolate leaves 



having broadly cordate leaflets 5 inches 

 long, and lax, drooping racemes 4 inches 



88364 to 88370— Continued. 



long, of beautifully veined pale-pink flow- 

 ers. The polished chestnut-brown seeds, 

 borne in a thick pod 5 to 7 inches long, 

 are the ordeal beans of the Calabar coast 

 of Africa where this vine is native. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 21481. 



88371. Arisaema polyphyllum (Blan- 

 co) Merr. Araceae. 



From the Philippine Islands. Seeds pre- 

 sented by P. J. Wester, Department of 

 Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ma- 

 nila. Received June 19, 1930. 



A herbaceous perennial about 2 feet high, 

 with a leaf palmately divided into about 12 

 lanceolate entire leaflets 2 inches long and 

 a spathe and spadix resembling those of 

 the well-known American Indian turnip, A. 

 triphylium.. It is native to the Philippine 

 Islands. 



88372. Manihot glaziovii Muell. Arg. 

 Euphorbiaceae. Ceara rubber. 



From Jamaica. Seeds presented bv M. S. 

 Goodman, Superintendent. Hope Gardens, 

 Kingston. Received June 21, 1930. 

 A tree, native to Brazil, which grows to 

 a height of about 30 feet with a round 

 head. It has 3-lobed to 7-lobed gray-green 

 leaves, in shape and size resembling those 

 of the castor-bean plant. The tree may be 

 tapped for rubber when the trunk is 4 or 5 

 inches in diameter. The rubber collector 

 first scrapes the loose dirt and stones away 

 from the roots of the tree and then covers 

 the ground with broad leaves in order to 

 catch the dripping sap. He then strips the 

 bark from the trunk to a height of 4 or 5 

 feet, making a number of spiral incisions. 

 The thick, viscid milk flows from these inci- 

 sions, some of it runs down to the ground, 

 but most of it dries on the trunk. After 

 several days, when the sap is completely 

 dry, it is broken off in long, stringlike 

 pieces, which are rolled into a ball and 

 packed in sacks. The product is then ready 

 for market. 



For previous introduction see No. 72978. 



88373 and 88374. Medicago sativa L. 

 Fabaceae. Alfalfa. 



Prom Santiago, Chile. Seeds presented by 

 Alberto J. Wiedmaier, Director, EstaciCn 

 Experimental de la Sociedad Nacional de 

 Agricultura. Received June 24, 1930. 

 Varieties that are native to Cbilp. 



88373. Chilena de rulo de Polpaico. 



88374. Chilena de Vallenar. 



88375 to 88416. Lens esculenta 

 Moench. Fabaceae. Lentil. 



From Pusa, Bihar, India. Seeds presented 

 by F. J. F. Shaw, Imperial Economic 

 Botanist, Imperial Institute of Agricul- 

 tural Research. Received June 24, 1930. 



88375. No. 3. 



88376. No. 4. 



88377. No. 5. 



88378. No. 8. 



88379. No. 11. 



88380. No. 12. 



88381. No. 14. 



88382. No. 16. 



88383. No. 17. 



88384. No. 18. 



88385. No. 22. 



88386. No. 23. 



88387. No. 24. 



88388. No. 25. 



88389. No. 29. 



88390. No. 30. 



88391. No. 31. 



88392. No. 33. 



