PLANT MATEEIAL INTRODUCED 



95561 — Continued 



Cassia flower chestnut. Collected in the 

 foothills near Wusi. 



95562 to 95575. 



From the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- 

 lics. Seeds presented by the director, 

 Tiflis Botanic Garden, Tiflis, Georgia, 

 Caucasus. Received January 7, 1932. 



95562 to 95566. Acer spp. Aceraceae. 



Maple. 



95562. Acer hyrcanum Fisch. and Mey. 



A southern European maple of com- 

 pact habit, about 25 feet high, with 

 bright-green 5-lobed leaves and green- 

 ish yellow flowers which are followed 

 by winged fruits about an inch long. 



For previous introduction see 90590. 



95563. Acer monspessulanum iberi- 

 cdm (Bieb.) Pax. (A. ibericum Bieb.). 



A form of the Montpelier maple with 

 larger leaves, having the inner lobes 

 slightly 3-lobed and obtuse. It is 

 native to the Caucasus region. 



For previous introduction see 90952. 



95564. Acer insigne Boiss. and Buhse. 



A large tree with deeply cordate 

 leaves 5 to 10 inches across, having 

 coarsely crenate-serrate lobes. The 

 flowers are borne in large erect pani- 

 cles. It is native to the Caucasus 

 region and northern Persia. 



For previous introduction see 90591. 



95565. Acer cappadocicdm Gleditsch 

 (A. laetum Meyer). Coliseum maple. 



A tree up to 50 feet high, native to 

 the Caucasus region a.nd eastward to 

 western China. The 5- to 7-lobed, 

 cordate leaves are 3 to 6 inches 

 across, and the yellow-green flowers, 

 in upright corymbs, are followed by 

 spreading winged fruits. 



For previous introduction see 93076. 



95566. Acer divergens Koch and Pax 

 (A. quinquelobum Koch). 



A tree, native to the Caucasus, with 

 ash-brown bark and leathery 5-lobed 

 leaves which are dark green above and 

 pale beneath. 



For previous introduction see 90589. 



95567 to 95570. Allium spp. Liliaceae. 



Onion, 



95567. Allium albidum Fisch. 



A species with clustered oblong bulbs, 

 very narrow semiterete leaves, and 

 white or yellow-white flowers. Native 

 to the southern part of the Union of 

 Soviet Socialist Republics. 



For previous introduction see 90594. 



95568. Allium lepidum Kunth. 



A rather small onion with semi- 

 terete leaves 3 to 4 inches high and a 

 shorter scape bearing an umbel of 

 purplish flowers. It is native to the 



Caucasus. 



For previous introduction see 90601. 



95569. Allium pseudostrictum Albow. 



An alpine onion about 8 inches high 

 with flat linear leaves and pale-rose 

 flowers in a small dense globular head 



95562 to 95575 — Continued 



on a scape 10 inches high. Native to 

 the southern part of the Union of 

 Soviet Socialist Republics. 



For previous introduction see 90602. 



95570. Allium victorialis L. 



One of the most distinctive species 

 of European onion with stems about 2 

 feet high, leaves resembling those of 

 the lily-of-the-valley, and white or 

 greenish-white flowers. 



95571. Ecballium elaterium (L.) A. 

 Rich. Cucurbitaceae. 



Squirting-cucumber. 



A perennial trailing vine native to the 

 Mediterranean countries, which is cul- 

 tivated as an annual in gardens of the 

 Temperate Zone. It is a curiosity be- 

 cause of its peculiar habit of violently 

 ejecting its seeds and juice. A drug, 

 elaterium, is obtained from the juice. 

 In flower and foliage characters the 

 plant closely resembles the cucumber, and 

 the fruit is like a small green elliptical 

 gourd covered with soft greenish prickles. 



For previous introduction see 64188. 



95572. Solanum nigrum L. Solanaceae. 



Black nightshade. 



95573. Solanum dulcamara L. Solana- 

 cete. Bitter nightshade. 



Received as Solanum persicum, which 

 is a form with ovate-cordate, entire 

 leaves. 



95574. Tamarix hohenackeri Bunge. 

 Tamaricaceae. Tamarisk. 



An evergreen tree, native to the Cau- 

 casus, with very small linear acute 

 leaves and small flowers in racemes 1 or 

 2 inches long, appearing in the spring. 



95575. Tamarix pentan'dra Pall. (T. 

 pallasii Desv.). Tamaricaceae. 



Tamarisk. 



A shrub or small tree with usually 

 purple branches ; the lanceolate to ovate 

 leaves are glaucous or pale green ; the 

 large panicles of pink flowers are in 

 dense racemes 1 to 2 inches long and 

 appear in July and August. This tama- 

 risk is found wild from the Balkan 

 Peninsula through southern Europe to 

 Turkistan and from Asia Minor to 

 Persia. 



For previous introduction see 42443. 



95576 to 95579. Castanea ceenata 

 Sieb. and Zucc. Fagaceae. 



Japanese chestnut. 



From Japan. Seeds purchased from the 

 Yokohama Nursery Co., Yokohama. Re- 

 ceived January 7, 1932. 



A collection of chestnuts introduced for 

 the use of Department specialists. 



95576. No. 1. 



95577. No. 2. 



95578. No. 3. 



95579. No. 4. 



95580. Citkullus vulgaeis Schrad. 

 Cucurbitaceae. Watermelon. 



From India. Seeds presented by Jai Chand 

 Luthra, professor of botany, Lyallpur, 

 Punjab. Received January 11, 1932. 



A mixed sample, purchased in the market. 



