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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED 



62873 to 62896— Continued. 



62890. Pyrus sp. 



No. 1963. February 2, 1925. Ch'iu 

 Li (autumn pear), a very good keeper. 

 The pale-yellow fruits, 3 or more inches 

 in diameter, ripen in September. 



62891. Pyrus sp. 



No. 1966. February 2, 1925. Hsiang 

 Shut Li (fragrant water pear). The 

 fruits become yellow when ripe, which 

 is during August, and are 3 or more 

 inches in diameter. 



62892. PYRUS sp. 



No. 1977. February 3. 1925. Pan 

 Chi'i Bu Li (half-catty brittle pear). 

 A yellow-fruited variety, 2y 2 to 3 

 inches in diameter.- which ripens dur- 

 ing the middle of September. The 

 fruits sometimes have a pink blush. 



62893. Pyrus sp. 



No. 1979. Tsanfengying, near Huai- 

 lai. February 3, 1925. A variety 

 called Ch'iu Li (autumn pear). The 

 fruits are yellow with dark-colored 

 spots and are 2 to 3 inches in diame- | 

 ter. Ripens in September. 



62894. Pyrus sp. 



No. 2017. Tung Hua Ssu temple, 

 near Huailai. February 4, 1925. Huai 

 Lai Ta Kuang Li (broad duck pear of 

 Huailai). Yellow fruits which ripen 

 in September. 



62895 and 62896. Solaxum tuberosum L. 

 Solanaceae. Potato. 



62895. No. 1958. Huailai. February 

 3. 1925. Pai P'i T'u Tou. Tubers 

 of a rather small potato grown in 

 this vicinity. Planting is dorie early 

 in April and harvesting in Septem- 

 ber. 



62896. No. 1959. Huailai. Februarv 

 3. 1925. Tze P'i T'u Tou. Tubers 

 of a potato which is planted in April 

 and harvested in September. 



62897 to 62920. 



From Eala. Belgian Congo. Africa. Seeds 

 presented by Y. Goossens. director. Bo- 

 tanic Garden. Received March 10, 1925. 



62897. Albizzia adiaxthifolia (Schum.) 

 W. F. Wight (A. fastigiata E. Mey.). 

 Mimosaceae. 



A tropical African tree, of fastigiate 

 habit, with finely divided foliage. Ac- 

 cording to Holland (Useful Plants of 

 Nigeria, pt. 2) this tree yields a gum 

 somewhat similar to gum arabic. The 

 seeds, after maceration, are eaten as a 

 sauce by the natives of West Africa. 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. 

 No. 61479. 



62898. Artaxema sesamoides Benth. 

 Scrophulariaceae. 



A tall, sparingly branched herbaceous 

 plant, 2 to 3 feet high, with large, bluish 

 lilac flowers. Native to the East Indies 

 and distributed through tropical Africa. 



62899. Baryxylum africaxuh (Sond.) 

 Pierre (PeltopTiorum africanum Sond.). 

 Caesalpiniaceae. 



A handsome, yellow-flowered tree, with 

 a habit like a Mimosa, native to tropical 

 and subtropical Africa. It becomes 20 to 

 30 feet in height, and should be tested 

 in southern Florida and also in southern 

 California as an ornamental shade tree. 



62897 to 62920— Continued. 



62900. BOSQUIEA ANGOLEXSIS FicalllO. 



Moraceae. 



This is described (Flora of Tropical 

 Africa, vol. 6. sec. 2) as a handsome 

 tree 50 feet or less in height, with a 

 loosely pyramidal head, and a trunk often 

 free of branches to nearly half its height. 

 The rigidly leathery leaves are elliptic 

 and 2 to 6 inches long. Native to 

 western tropical Africa. 



62901. Carica papaya L. Papayaceae. 



Papaya. 

 Yar. clegantissima. 



62902. Cephaloxema polyaxdrum Schum. 

 Tiliaceae. 



A tropical relative of our basswood, 

 which is a shrub with broadly oval leaves 

 and yellow flowers about an inch across. 

 Native to the Belgian Congo and Came- 

 roon. 



Chaetochloa sulcata (Aubl.) 

 Hitchc. (Setaria sulcata Raddi). Poa- 

 ceae. Grass. 



A perennial, tropical grass with rather 

 dense panicles. 



62S04. Clitoria laurifolia Poir. (C. ca- 

 janifolia Benth.). Fabaceae. 



A pink-flowered, erect, herbaceous plant, 

 with hairy stents and leaves, indigenous 

 to the West Indies and northern South 

 America. 



62905 to 62907. Corculum LEPTOPUS 

 (Hook, and Arn.) Stuntz (Anligonou 

 leptopus Hook, and Arn.). Polygo- 

 naceae. 



The Rosa de montana is a handsome, 

 summer-blooming climber, distributed 

 from Mexico to Chile, where it grows in 

 the cooler highland regions. The flowers 

 with colored sepals are in many-flowered 

 racemes. 



62905. Variety alba. A white-flowered 

 form. 



62906. Yariety rosea. A pink-flowered 

 form. 



62907. Yariety rubra. A red-flowered 

 form. 



62908. Cracca villosa hirta (Buch.- 

 Ham.) Kuntze. Fabaceae. 



A woody perennial, with reddish flow- 

 ers, native to the East Indies. 



62909. Cracca villosa purpurea (L.) 

 Kuntze (Tephrosia purpurea Pers.). 

 Fabaceae. 



An herbaceous perennial, native to 

 tropical Africa, with purple flowers. 



62910. Hoxckexya ficifolia Willd. Tili- 

 aceae. 



A very striking ornamental shrub, na- 

 tive to western tropical Africa. Accord- 

 ing to M. T. Masters (Flora of Tropical 

 Africa, vol. 1) the branches are purplish 

 and covered with yellowish hairs, and the 

 hairy leaves are more or less deeply 

 three to seven lobed. The large purple 

 flowers. 2 to 4 inches wide, are in termi- 

 nal racemes. 



62911. Limoxia poggei latialata Wildem. 

 Rutaceae. 



A spiny shrub or small tree, native to 

 Uganda, with pinnate leaves having 

 winged stems and large white flowers 

 borne in clusters of 4 to 10 in the axils 

 of the leaves. 



