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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



3B979 fo 36983— Continued. 



36979 and 36980. Holcus sorghum L. 



Sorghum. 



{Sorghum lulgare Pers.) 



36981. Holcus halepensis L. 



{Sorghum halepensis Pers.) 



J ohnson grass. 



36982. Holcus sobghum L. 



{Sorghum vulgare Pers.) 



Sorghum. 



36983. Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Brown. 

 {Pennisetum typhoideum Rich.) 



Pearl millet. 



36984. MusAsp. 



Banana. 



Collected by Dr. H. L. Shantz, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, in 1913, on 

 the plantation of Mr. E. Z. Blackman, Miami, Fla. Received January 



" The plant is about 10 feet high and the fruit about 5 feet from the ground. 

 It is thought that these plants may be the result of early importations made by 

 the United States Department of Agriculture from the Philippines." (Shantz.) 



36985 and 36986. 



From Hongkong, China. Presented by Mr. W. J. Tutcher, superintendent, 



Botanical and Forestry Department. Received January 15, 1914. 

 36985. Fortunella hindsh (Champ.) Swingle. Hongkong kumquat. 

 (Atalantia hindsii Oliver.) 



"A shrub with compressed branchlets, ovate-elliptical, leathery leaves 

 1^ to 3 inches long, bearing small flowers in axillary clusters, followed 

 by small orange-colored fruits." (Tutcher.) 



Distribution. — Found on the wooded hills in the vicinity of Hongkong, 

 China. 



" The Hongkong kumquat (Fortunella hindsii) differs from the round 

 kumquat (F. japonica), the oval kumquat (F. margarita), and the 

 Meiwa kumquat (F. crassifolia) in a number of morphological characters, 

 some of them of decided taxonomic significance in this group. It may be 

 regarded as constituting a new subgenus. 



''Protocitrus Swingle. Differs from Eufortunella (1) in having the 

 ovary hypomerous (3 or 4 celled, not 5 celled) ; (2) in the ovary wall 

 of the mature fruits having on the inside between the stalks of the pulp 

 vesicles a number of minute wartlike pale-yellow, cellular masses; (3) 

 in having the dissepiments of the fruit dry and the peel thin and not very 

 fleshy; (4) in having shorter, broader, more brachytic flowers; (5) in 

 having leaves with the veins more prominent on both faces, and less 

 pallid below. 



" The two most important characters distinguishing the subgenus Pro- 

 tocitrus from Eufortunella are the few-celled ovary and the dimorphic 

 emergencen from the ovary wall of the fruit, viz, ordinary pulp vesicles 

 and verruciform tufts of loosely aggregated more or less colored cells. 



" The Hongkong kumquat, which, as already indicated, is the sole 

 species of the subgenus Protocitrus, may be described as follows: 



" A spiny shrub or small tree ; twigs slender, angled when young ; 

 leaves oval-elliptical, tapering sharply at both ends, dark grees above and 

 faintly venose, paler and venose below; petioles winged, often merging 

 into the lamina of the leaf without a separative joint. Flowers short, 



13, 1914. 



