OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1925 



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65273 to 65294— Continued. 



65286 and 65287. Schizandra chinensis (Turcz.) 

 Baill. Magnoliaceae. 



For previous introduction, see No. 57314. 



65286. No. 4098. Hsiaolin. August 29, 1925. 



65287. No. 4160. Mefun. September 11, 

 1925. A vine found on the mountain side, 

 which is very handsome with its masses 

 of compact bunches of small bright-red 

 berries. 



65288. Soja max (L.) Piper (Glycine hispida 

 Maxim.). Fabaceae. Soybean. 



No. 4132. Harbin. September 7, 1925. A 

 light -yellow soy bean which is the result of eight 

 years of selection work at the experiment station. 



"65289. Syntherisma ischaemum (Schreb.) 

 Nash. Poaceae. Grass. 



No. 4126. September 6, 1925. A chicken-foot 

 grass collected in the Sungan River bottom 

 across from Harbin. 



65290. Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. Vacciniaceae. 



No. 4137. Harbin. September 9, 1925. 

 Small, bright^red fruits resembling cranberries, 

 but round and not so large, bought in the 

 market where they were said to have come from 

 the Eastern Hills. The flesh is white and the 

 seeds, few in a fruit, are very small and of a 

 yellowish color. 



For previous introduction, see No. 50344. 



65291. Vicia amoena Fisch. Fabaceae. Vetch. 



No. 3840. Harbin. September 4, 1925. 



For previous introduction and description, 

 see No. 65085. 



65292. Vicia japonica A. Gray. Fabaceae. 



Vetch. 



No. 4134. Harbin. September 8, 1925. The 

 leaves of this are broader and not so coarse as 

 those of the preceding [No. 65291]. 



65293. Vicia japonica A. Gray. Fabaceae. 



Vetch. 



No. 4229. Harbin. September 15. 1925. This 

 is one of the best fruiting wild varieties. There 

 are about 15 pods in a cluster, and because the 

 pods do not fly open like many of the other 

 varieties, they could be harvested to good 

 advantage. 



Astragalus melilotoides Pall. Faba- 



ceae. 



No. 4070. Harbin. September 8, 1925. A 

 small, narrow-leaved, upright growing variety 

 with lavender flowers; collected in the new 

 Russian cemetery. 



65295. Crotalaria striata DC. Fa- 

 baceae. 



From Eala, Belgian Congo, Africa. Seeds pre- 

 sented by V. Goossens, Directeur du Jardin 

 Botanique d'Eala, Received October 28, 1925. 



An ornamental shrubby leguminous plant, de- 

 scribed in Curtis's Botanical Magazine (pi. 3200) 

 as low growing, with rounded green branches and 

 elongated terminal clusters of drooping yellow 

 flowers, the petals striped with deep orange-brown. 

 It is to be tested as a cover plant in the southern 

 United States. 



For previous introduction, see No. 52531. 



65296. Arachis nambyqtjarae 

 Hoehne. Fabaceae. 



From Sao Paulo, Brazil. Seeds presented by H. 

 Hoehne, Chefe da Seccao de Botanica do Museu 

 Paulista. Received November 6, 1925. 



A Brazilian relative of the peanut, which ac- 

 cording to Hoehne (Historia Natural Botanica, 

 Matto Grosso, Brazil, pt. 12), is a rather shrubby, 

 much-branched, prostrate or ascending plant. 

 The pod is 2 to 3 inches long, with usually two 

 seeds which are edible and very oily. 



For previous introduction, see No. 62099. 



65297. Aleurites trisperma Blanco. 

 Euphorbiaceae. Banucalag. 



From Manila, P hilippine Islands. Seeds presented 

 by S. Youngberg, acting director, Bureau of 

 Agriculture. Received November 12, 1925. 



This Philippine relative of the tung-oil tree of 

 China (Aleurites fordii), as described in Bulletin 

 No. 20 of the Bureau of Forestry of the Philippine 

 Department of Agriculture, is a tree 30 to 50 feet in 

 height, with heart-shaped leaves and rounded 

 three-angled fruits about 2 inches in diameter. 

 Each of the three ceils of the fruit usually contains 

 one seed; this is flattened circular, with a brittle 

 shell and a white embryo surrounded by a large 

 oily endosperm. This oil, known as bagilumbang 

 oil, is of a light amber color somewhat paler than 

 the commercial grades of tung, or lumbang, oil as it 

 appears in the market. It is said to be so closely 

 allied to tung oil as to be almost indistinguishable. 

 The shells are much more easily broken than those 

 of the lumbang (A. moluccana) , and the kernel is 

 not so difficult to separate from the shell. 



For previous introduction, see No. 47942. 



65298 to 65308. 



From Buitenzorg, Java. Seeds presented by Dr. 

 W. M. Docters Van Leeuwen, Director, Botanic 

 Garden. Received November 3, 1925. 



65298. Clitoria heterophylla Lam. Fab- 

 aceae. 



As described by Lamarck (EncyclopSdie 

 Methodique Botanique, vol. 2, p. 51), this East 

 Indian plant is a climbing perennial with thread- 

 like stems and compound leaves consisting of 

 five small green leaflets which vary in form from 

 orbicular to linear, borne on a winged axis. 

 The blue flowers are borne singly in the leaf 

 axils. 



For previous introduction, see No. 22748. 



valetonu Backer. Fab- 



65299. Crotalaria 

 aceae. 



An East Indian plant described by C. A. 

 Backer (Bulletin du Jardin Botanique, Buiten- 

 zorg, vol. 2, p. 324) as an erect, densely branched 

 herb, 1 to 4 feet high, with simple hairy leaves 

 and yellow flowers in terminal, 5-flowered to 12- 

 flowered racemes. 



65300. Crotalaria verrucosa L. Fabaceae. 



A much-branched leguminous herb, about 2 

 feet high, found throughout the Tropics of both 

 hemispheres. The white and blue flowers are 

 in many-flowered compact racemes. 



For previous introduction, see No. 51119. 



65301. Crotalaria vitellina Ker. Fabaceae. 



A Brazilian shrub, which, as described in the 

 Botanical Register (vol. 6, pi. 447), is about 3 

 feet high, of slender habit, with oval-oblong 

 leaflets, gray beneath, and erect terminal ra- 

 cemes of reddish yellow flowers. The oblong 

 pods, scarcely an inch long, are covered with 

 velvety pubescence. 



65302. Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf. 

 (Andropogon citratum DC). Poaceae. 



A large, coarse grass with long, narrow leaves 

 4 or 5 feet in length, native to eastern Asia. 

 The oil from this and a number of related species 

 is the citronella oil of commerce, used in per- 

 fumes and as a mosquito deterrent. 



For previous introduction, see No. 35132. 



