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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



36988 to 36990— Continued. 



'* The plant is well adapted to practically the same area as the cowpea 

 and will doubtless attract attention from time to time. Under present 

 conditions it is very doubtful whether this bean can be economically 

 utilized in this country. 



" In different parts of India various vernacular names are given to 

 this bean, among them Sutri, Sita-mas, Pau maia, Gurush, and Gurounsh. 



"In Japan it is called Tsuru adsuki; in China, Mu-tsa (Shanghai), 

 * Crab-eye' or 'Lazy-man' pea (Soochow), and 'climbing mountain 

 bean' (Yachow) ; in Cuba, where introduced, 'little devil,' or ' mambi,' 

 bean." (C. V. Piper.) 



36989. Stizolobium aterrimum Piper and Tracy. Mauritius bean. 

 For a detailed description of this plant, with discussion of its value, 



see Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin 179, entitled " The Florida Velvet 

 Bean and Related Plants," by C. V. Piper and S. M. Tracy, 1910. 



36990. ViGNA SINENSIS (Tomer) Savi. Cowpea. 

 "A very late, procumbent cowpea of poor habit; apparently of no 



value." (0. V. Piper.) 



36991. Caragana arborescens Lam. Siberian pea tree. 



From Paris, France. Procured from Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co. Received 

 January 9, 1914. 



For propagation at the Northern Great Plains Field Station, Maudan, N. Dak. 



36992. SoLANTJM POLYADENiTJM Greenman. Potato. 



From Soulseat, Castle Kennedy, Scotland. Presented by Mr. J. Aikman 

 Paton. Received January 15, 1914. 

 " Pubescent throughout, with hirsute spreading hairs intermixed with 

 densely crowded stipitate glands, heavy scented. This very pronounced and 

 very disagreeable odor corresponds absolutely to that which is given off when 

 the leaves of Ailanthus glandulosa L. are crushed. It is not found to my 

 knowledge in any other species of Solanum (among the tuber-bearing) and is 

 j^nfficient, aside from its pale-leaved foliage of very peculiar form, resembling 

 that of the tomato, to make it Immediately distinguishable from all others. 

 Tubers white ; stems somewhat striate-angled ; leaves pinnatisect, 5 to 12 centi- 

 meters long, 4 to 8 centimeters broad, usually auricled at the base by small 

 snbfalcate leaves of reduced axillary branches ; segments 7 to 9, lance-oblong to 

 ovate, 1.5 to 4 centimeters long, 0.5 to 2 centimeters broad, somewhat acuminate, 

 obtuse, abruptly contracted below into an oblique subpetiolulate base; interme- 

 diate segments much smaller, very unequal, rarely more than a centimeter in 

 length ; inflorescence terminating the stem and branches in pedunculate falsely 

 dichotomous, more or less horizontally spreading cymes; flowers several; pe- 

 duncles 1 to 2.5 centimeters long, jointed; calyx five parted; segments sub- 

 lanceolate to somewhat oblong, often abruptly contracted into an attenuated 

 apex, persistent; corolla five angled, plicate, about 1 centimeter high and 2 

 centimeters broad, white; ovary and style glabrous; fruit conical-ovate. 10 to 

 13 millimeters long, two-thirds to nearly as broad, glabrous. Mexico, State of 

 Hidalgo; limestone hills. El Salto station, September 15, 1902. C. O. Pringle, 

 No. 8692 (herb. Greenman)." {Oreenman, Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Science, 

 vol. 39, p. 89, 1903,) 



