236 SEEDS AXD PLAKTS IMPORTED. 



16765 to 16769. 



From the AVhite House greenhouse, Pubhc P>uil(lin$is and Grounds, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. Received December 8, 1905. 



16765. Maranta splendida. 16768. Calathea roseo-picta. 



16766. Calathea arrecta. 16769. Calathea undulata. 



16767. Calathea makoyana. 



16770. Zea mays. Sweet corn. 



From North Clarendon, Yt. Received thru Mr. D. Dana Hewitt, December 11, 

 1905. 

 White Malal-of. Grown from S. P. I. No. 13256. (Lot "A" selected from No. 

 16772.) 



16771. Medicago denticulata. Bur clover. 



From San Francisco, Cal. Received thru the Jessup-Wheelan Company, De- 

 cember 11, 1905. 



16772. Zea mays. , Sweet corn. 



From North Clarendon, Yt. Received thru Mr. D. Dana Hewitt, December 11, 

 1905. 

 White Malakof. Grown from S. P. I. No. 13256. 



16773 to 16780. 



From St. Louis, Mo. Received thru Mr. Fred Mueller, of the Missouri Botan- 

 ical Gardens, December 11, 1905. 



16773. Alocasia macrorhiza 16777. Colocasia ixdica. 



VARIEGATA. 



From Ceylon. 

 16774. Alocasia odora 

 From East Indies. 



16778. Xaxthosoma sp. 

 From Cuba. 



16779. Xaxthosoma viola- 



CEUM. 



16775. Colocasia sp. ^^^^^^ ^y^^^ j^^.^^_ 



From Mexico. 



16776. CoLOCASL\ antiquorum 

 euchlora. 

 From India. 



16780. (Undetermined.; 



16781 to 16784. Zea mays. Sweet corn. 



From North Clarendon, Yt. Received thru Mr. D. Dana Hewitt, December 11, 

 1905. 



White Malakof. 



16781. Grown from S. P. I. No. 13357. 



16782. Grown from selection "B" of S. P. I. No. 13256. 



16783. Grown from selection "G" of S. P. 1. No. 13256. 



16784. Grown from selection "C". of S. P. I. No. 13256. 



16785. Hibiscus sabdariffa. Roselle. 



From Mayaguez, P. R. Received thru the Porto Rico Experiment Station, 

 December, 1905. 



16786. Eucalyptus corymbosa. Bloodwood. 



From Bo wen, North Queensland, Australia. Received thru Mr. William Petti- 

 grew, of the Queensland Acclimatization Society, December 6, 1905. 

 "One of the numerous species of Australian eucalyptus. A tree of medium size, 

 with persistent flaky bark, often reported as stunted or shrubby in appearance, but 



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