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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED 



28799 to 28800. Feroniella lucid a (Scheff.) Swingle. 



Seeds of this plant were listed in Inventory No. 24, as Feronia lucida Scheff. Mr. 

 Walter T. Swingle, however, in Bulletin de la Society botanique de France, vol. 59, 

 p. 781, 1912) has recognized this plant as belonging to a genus distinct from Feronia 

 and has included it in Feroniella. 



29341. Feroniella oblata Swingle. 



Seeds of this plant were received under the name Feronia elephantum from Mr. P. 

 Morange, director of the Agricultural and Commercial Service, Saigon, Cochin China. 

 In a recent publication (Bulletin de la Societe botanique de France, vol. 59, p. 779, 

 1912) Mr. Walter T. Swingle has made this plant the type of a new genus, Feroniella, 

 distinct from Feronia, and has named it Feroniella ohlata. 



31872. Aristoclesia esculenta (Arruda) Stuntz. 



In a recent letter Mr. C. F. Mead, who presented the seed on which this number is 

 based, called our attention to the fact that the quoted description applied rather to 

 No. 34309, sent in by him later, and gives the following description of the pacuri: 



"The pacuri is a large forest tree, growing to a height of 20 meters in some instances. 

 The fruit is a bright-yellow color, about the size of a hen's egg, very similar in looks 

 to the ordinary lime, but of a deeper yellow color." 



NOTES ON INTRODUCTIONS APPEARING IN THE PRESENT 



INVENTORY. 



The following names are either first published here or are used in a 

 sense different from the accepted one. 



33281. HoLCUs sorghum L. 



{Sorghum vulgare Pers.) 

 This plant, which has been listed in previous numbers of these inventories as Andro- 

 pogon sorghum (L.) Brot., and is listed in the Index Kewensis as Sorghum vulgare Pers., 

 has been identified as the type of the genus Holcus by Mr. A. S. Hitchcock, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, who says (Grasses of Cuba, Contributions from U. S. National Herba- 

 rium, vol. 12, pt. 6, p. 195, 1909): "Holcus sorghum L. must be considered the type of 

 the genus Holcus, since it is the most important economic species of the genus, and, 

 further, since, in the fifth edition of his Genera Plantarum, Linnaeus refers to the 

 genus Sorgum Mich [eli] as a synonym of Holcus." It is therefore necessary to use this 

 original Linneean name for the sorghum. 



33306. Hedysarum hedysaroides (L.) Stuntz. 



{Astragalus hedysaroides L., Species Plantarum, p. 756, 1753.) 

 Seeds of this spscies were received from St. Petersburg under the name Hedysarum 

 ohscurum L. This name was published in 1759 by Linnaeus (Systema Naturae, ed. 

 10, p. 1171) and the species is there based on Astragalus hedysaroides L. As the earliest 

 specific name, hedysaroides should be adopted. 



33428. Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Brown. 



{Panicum glaucum L., Species Plantarum, p. 56, 1753.) 

 This species, which has been Listed in previous numbers of the inventories as Pen- 

 nisetum americanum (L.) Schum. and in the Index Kewensis as P. typhoideum Rick., 

 was first described by Linnaeus (Species Plantarum, p. 56, 1753) as Panicum glaucum, 

 based on a specimen from Ceylon. This specimen, which is still preserved in the 

 British Museum, has been identified by Trimen (Journal Linnean Society, vol. 24, 

 p. 136, 1896) as the pearl millet, and it is therefore necessary to use the name Pennisetum 

 glaucum for this plant. 



