UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



INVENTORY No. 109 



Washington, D. C. ▼ Issued June, 1933 



PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED BY THE DIVISION OF FOREIGN 

 PLANT INTRODUCTION, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, OCTOBER 1 

 TO DECEMBER 31, 1931 (Nos. 94283-95551) 



CONTENTS Page 



Introductory statement 1 



Inventory 3 



Index of common and scientific names 33 



INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 



This inventory, covering the period from October 1 to December 31, 1931, 

 and containing 1,269 numbers (94283-95551), records almost altogether mate- 

 rial that was brought in for department workers. This is particularly exem- 

 plified by the enormous collections of cereals presented by the Union of Soviet 

 Socialist Republics through J. G. Dickson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 

 Wis. This remarkable collection contains 815 numbers (94302-94762, 94787- 

 94922, 95091-95308) of barley, emmer, and many types of wheat, not only culti- 

 vated forms and hybrids produced in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 

 but wild examples from many original sources. 



The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has also contributed a valuable 

 collection of pistache seeds from Turkmenistan, including fruits from wild 

 and from cultivated trees (94939-95046), an extensive and useful collection of 

 wild and cultivated plums (95049-95063) collected through the Caucasus, and 

 a collection of herbaceous plants and grasses (94923-94936) of possible value 

 as sand binders or as grasses for poor and arid land. 



The study of Ficus species is augmented by the introduction from the 

 Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, Java, of Ficus Jcorthalsii, F. procera crassiramea, 

 F. pseudo-acamptophylla, F. recurva, and F. rigida (94296-94300) ; from R. E. 

 Holttum, Director, Singapore Botanic Garden, Straits Settlements, of F. alba 

 and F. chrysocarpa (95089, 95090) ; from Arthur F. Fischer, Director of For- 

 estry, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Philippine Islands, 

 of F. minahassae, F. nota, and F. odorata (95369-95371). 



The studies in palms are represented by Coceothrinax argentea and Paurotis 

 tvrightii (95047-95048), from Mrs. F. S. Earle, Herradura, Cuba; Livistona 

 mariae (95077), from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Can- 

 berra, Australia; and Livistona hoogendorpii (95088), from Dr. Robert M. 

 Grey, Harvard Botanic Garden, Soledad, Cuba. 



Various ornamentals have been received, notably an interesting set of 

 Australian plants from Ida Richardson, Perth, Western Australia (95314- 

 95344), including some less-known Acacias, Eucalyptus, Hakea, Melaleuca, 

 and Hibiscus. But possibly the most interesting contributions are the seeds 

 presented by Maj. Lionel de Rothschild, London, England, from his share in 

 the Forrest Expedition to China, the last exploring trip of that veteran plant 

 collector. 



The botanical determinations of these introductions have been made and the 

 nomenclature determined by H. C. Skeels, who has had general supervision 

 of this inventory. Knowlbs A. Ryebson, 



Principal Horticulturist, in Charge. 



Division op Foreign Plant Introduction, 

 Washington, D. C, November 10, 1932. 



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