UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



INVENTORY No. 110 



Washington, D. C. T Issued November 1933 



PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED BY THE DIVISION OF FOREIGN PUNT 

 INTRODUCTION, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, JANUARY 1 TO 

 MARCH 31, 1932 (Nos. 95552-98256) 



CONTENTS Page 



Introductory statement 1 



Inventory 3 



Index of common and scientific names 90 



INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 



Inventory 110, recording plant material received by the Division of Foreign 

 Plant Introduction between January 1 and March 31, 1932 (nos. 95552-98256), is 

 conspicuous for two major groups — the one of soybeans containing 1,503 intro- 

 ductions, and the other the collections of the Allison V. Armour expedition to 

 the West Indies and South America on which both David Fairchild and P. H. 

 Dorsett collected for the Division a total of 371 numbers. 



No two collections could be cited that would more perfectly illustrate 

 the extremes of purposes that have to be pursued. The soybean collection is 

 part of an intensive study of soybean types and varieties inaugurated by P. H. 

 Dorsett and W. J. Morse during their explorations in 1929 L -30 when this crop 

 was studied in the field. If the present introductions add as much to the 

 advancement of this new crop as the former , introductions have done, this 

 collection, so dryly recorded here, will be of national importance. The other 

 mass of material represents a study of the flora native and introduced of the 

 islands and countries traversed, with the specific intent of establishing as many 

 new plants as possible in the comparable areas about the Gulf of Mexico and 

 in southern Florida. It embraces some duplicates, some one of wdiich may be 

 more suited than the rest for our conditions. 



Conspicuous among the many subtropical plants, both economic and orna- 

 mental in character, are included seeds of many kinds of palms (over 40 num- 

 bers) some of them from plants native to the country of collection, others from 

 exotic species established there. Plants raised from these seeds will be 

 planted for testing in the South to determine their suitability for our soils and 

 climates, and added to the present collection at Coconut Grove will make one 

 of the most important collections in the country. 



Through the courtesy of Maj. Lionel de Rothschild, London, England, the 

 Division has shared in some of the seeds from the last Forrest expedition in 

 China, which sent in, among other things, many rhododendrons; others who have 

 contributed to the rhododendron studies of the Division are the Hon. Henry 

 MacLaren and J. R. Stevenson, who have sent seeds of species and varieties 

 for test as to hardiness. 



Conspicuous additions of chestnut material from China are comprised in four 

 sets of material (95631-95648, 95663, 95664, 97853-97857, 98001-98009) from 

 Peter Liu and one from Japan (96390-96420) through R. Kent Beattie from 



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