INVENTORY. 



34728 to 34730. 



From Trivandrum, Travancore, southern India. Presented by the Director of 

 Agriculture. Received January 2, 1913. 

 Plants of the following: 



34728. Cymbopogox citratus (DC.) Stapf. Lemon grass. 

 (Andropogon citratus DC.) ^ 



See S. P. I. No. 33786 for pre^ious introduction and description. 



34729. Cymbopogon nardus (L.) Rendle. Citronella. 

 {Andropogon nardus L.) 



See S. P. I. No. 33787 for pre\'ious introduction. 



34730. Veth^eria zizaxioides (L.) Nash. Vetiver. 

 (Andropogon squarrosus L. f.) 



Distribution. — A stout grass found throughout the plains and lower hills of 

 India, up to an elevation of 4,000 feet; generally cultivated and escaped into 

 fields in Louisiana. 



34731. Phaseolus vulgaris L. Bean. 



From Bigstone, S. Dak. Presented by Mr. C. J. Brand, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry'. Received December 30, 1912. 

 ■'The parent seed from which this sample was produced in 1912 was brought to Red- 

 wood Falls, Minn., from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in 1852, by Mrs. Herman Neu- 

 enberg. This sample was grown by my mother in her garden. It is more productive 

 than the sorts usually grown in the Northwest, has a longer growing season, cooks 

 much more quickly when cooked as a green snap bean, and recovers after a severe frost 

 and. continues to produce. ' ' (Brand. ) 



34732. NoRMANBYA MERRiLLii Beccari. Bonga de China. 



From Manila, Philippine Islands. Presented by Mr. O. W. Barrett, chief, Divis- 

 ion of Horticulture, Bureau of Agriculture. Received January 7, 1913. 

 "A medium-sized palm with graceful, somewhat curved, pinnate leaves, somewhat 

 resembling the common betelnut palm, but not so tall. The leaves are rather glau- 

 cous, and the pretty crimson fruits are borne just below the leaves in medium-sized 

 bunches, the individual friuts less than 1 inch long. One of our most ornamental 

 medium-sized palms, which thrives remarkably well in Manila." (E. D. Merrill.) 



34733. Zea mays L. Corn. 



From Malta. Presented by Lieut. Col. E. P. S. Roupell, Lieutenant Governor 

 and Chief Secretary to Government of Malta, through the American consul, 

 Mr. James Oliver Laing. Received January 6, 1913. 

 "Maltese-gro\vn com, very red in color. This produces only one head per seed and 

 on unirrigated ground the plant is about 2 feet 6 inches high. On irrigated ground 

 the plant will grow 5 or 6 feet high." 



^ The italicized names in parentheses are the Index Kewensis names, added for convenience in con- 

 Becting the names used in this Inventory with the foreign literatxare in regard to the plants. 



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