2 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED 



bureau who are carrying on experiments with small-seeded strains of chick- 

 peas as a stock feed in the Southwest, material was introduced from a number 

 of agricultural institutions in India ( Gicer arietinum, Nos. 61066 to 61073 ; 

 61074 to 61081 ; 61082 and 61083 ; 61356 to 61365). 



Seeds of a number of rubber-producing plants, introduced for bureau 

 specialists seeking new sources of rubber, were received in a shipment from 

 Alleyne Leechman, director of the Biological and Agricultural Institute at 

 Amani, Tanganyika Territory, Africa. Among these may be mentioned 

 Castilla elastica (No. 61483), Funtumia elastica (No. 61491), Landolphia kirkii 

 and L. stolzii (Nos. 61492 and 61493), Manihot glazlovii (Nos. 61496 and 61497), 

 and Mascarenhasia elastica (No. 61498). 



Of especial interest to fruit breeders should be a prune (Prunus domestica, 

 No. 60973), very similar to the French prune in character of fruit, which thrives 

 in the latitude of Washington, D. C. Such a tree is growing in the garden 

 of Dr. Ales Hrdlieka in Washington, and bears large crops each fall. The tree 

 came originally from Czechoslovakia. 



A new hybrid peach (Amygdalus persica X persica nectarina, No. 61302) 

 originated at the Plant Introduction Garden, Chico, Calif., by hybridizing with 

 foreign material gives promise of being a good home fruit. The round, light 

 greenish yellow clingstone fruits, 2 inches in diameter, have white, firm, juicy 

 flesh of a pleasing peachy flavor. 



The botanical determinations of introductions have been made and the 

 nomenclature determined by H. C. Skeels, and the descriptive matter has been 

 prepared under the direction of Paul Russell, who has had general supervision 

 of this inventory. 



Roland McKee, 

 Acting Senior Agricultural Explorer in Charge. 



Office of Foreign Plant Introduction, 

 Washington, D. C, August 19, 1926. 



