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34085 to 34092— Continued. 



multiplies thus without depending on seed. This rice is considered so superior 

 to other rice that at Saint Louis, Senegal, the natives exchange one calabash 

 of it for three of imported rice. The stalks of perennial rice, especially when 

 green, constitute a forage of excellent quality. It grows in rather light soils, 

 rich in potash and nitrogen but poor in phosphoric acid and lime. These soils 

 contain also about 0.1 per cent of sodium chloride, so that this rice would prob- 

 ably grow in saline soils and might be cultivated where the soil is too salt for 

 other crops or in those soils from which it is desirable to remove the salt in order 

 to grow cotton or other plants." (Ammann, Bulletin des Seances de la SocietS 

 Nationale d' Agriculture de France, vol. 70, pp. 893-90'0, 1910.) 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND PUBLICATION OF NEW NAMES. 



Under this heading all notes on changes in the nomenclature of 

 plants introduced by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduc- 

 tion, as well as notes on the use of scientific names in a different sense 

 from the one ordinarily accepted, will be brought together, so that 

 those interested in such matters may see at a glance what changes 

 have been found necessary in this inventory without referring to the 

 body of the publication. 



In this inventory the practice has been adopted for the first time 

 of givmg in parenthesis, after the name of each introduction, the name 

 recognized m the Index Kewensis where that differs in any way from 

 the name adopted. It is hoped that this will be of considerable 

 assistance by connecting the names of introductions which have been 

 changed under the American Code of Botanical Nomenclature with 

 the names under which the plants are known in the foreign literature. 



NOTES ON INTRODUCTIONS APPEARING IN PREVIOUS 

 INVENTORIES. 



23032. String A meyeri C. K. Schneider. 



This North Chinese species of lilac, received from Mr. Frank N. Meyer, June, 1908, 

 and collected by him at Fengtai, near Peking, Chihli, China, has been recently 

 described as a new species under the name Syringa meyeri C. K. Schneider (Plantse 

 Wilsonianae, pt. 2, p. 201, 1912.) 



23283-4. Medicago arabica inermis P. L. Kicker. 



Seeds of these bur clovers were listed in Inventory No. 15 as Medicago arabica (L.) All. 

 Mr. P. L. Picker, who is making a special study of the Medicagos with a view to mono- 

 graphing the various genera of which the aggregate genus is composed, has determined 

 these numbers as a new subspecies, Medicago arabica inermis Picker, and has published 

 a description and plate thereof in Bulletin No. 267, Bureau of Plant Industry, on Non- 

 perennial Medicagos, p. 33, pi. 12, fig. 1, lower row, 1913. 



24591, 25089. Chaetospermum glutinosum (Blanco) Swingle. 



Seeds of this Philippine tree were listed under the name Belou glutinosa (Blanco) 

 Skeels, in Inventory No. 18 of this series. As a result of his recent studies of the citrus 

 fruits and their wild relatives, Mr. Walter T. Swingle has decided that this species is 

 entitled to rank as a genus distinct from Belou and has published the new combina- 

 tion Chaetospermum glutinosum (Blanco) Swingle (Journal of the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences, vol. 3, p. 102, 1913.) 



