2 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPOBTED 



A collection of Crotalarias (Nos. 64058 to 64065) and one of Crotalarias and 

 Sesbans (Nos. 64066 to 64070), the former from South Africa and the latter 

 from Egypt, will be tested in the Southern States as cover plants and as forage. 



Through the courtesy of Em. Miege, Chief of the Service de l'Experimenta- 

 tion Agricole of Morocco, seeds have been obtained of a noteworthy cotton 

 variety (Gossypium spp., Nos. 64002 and 64003). This variety is called " Sar- 

 sar," from the name of the tribe which has grown it from time immemorial 

 in the interior of Morocco. Because of its unusual precocity, resistance to 

 drought, and length and strength of fiber, comparable to that of the Yuma 

 variety, it should be of interest to cotton breeders in this country. 



Bureau specialists testing rubber-producing plants will be interested in the 

 several introductions of Landolphias from tropical Africa, Funtumia elastiea 

 (No. 63786) from the Gold Coast Colony. Africa, and Ceara rubber (Manihot 

 glaziomi, No. 63798), one of the important Brazilian rubber-producing plants 



The botanical determinations of these 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 super- 

 vision of this inventory. 



Roland McKee, 

 Acting Senior Agricultural Explorer in Charge. 



Office of Foreign Plant Introduction, 



Washington, D. C, February 3, 1927. 



