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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPOETED. 



37060. Phoenix dactylifera L. 



Date. 



From Cairo, Egypt. Procured by Mr. S. C. Mason, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. Received January 29, 1914. 

 " Saidy date. Purchased in the market at Abshawai. These dates were sold 

 simply as Wahi. or 'desert ' dates, to the village merchants, who do not concern 

 themselves about desert names. The trader said they were Saidy and were 

 brought from the oasis of Baharieh, four days' journey, with camel." (Mason.) 



37061. Persea AMERICANA Miller. Avocado. 



iPersea gratissima Gaertn. f.) 

 From Honolulu, Hawaii. Presented by the Hawaii Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. Received February 2, 1914. 

 " No. 1454. A chance seedling about 15 years of age ; origin unknown. Form 

 pyriform; size small to medium, cavity shallow and somewhat abrupt; stem 

 medium long and quite thick ; surface undulating, hard, coriaceous, and slightly 

 pitted and mottled ; color green, with small, very abundant yellowish dots ; apex 

 a depressed dot ; skin quite thin, separating fairly well from the pulp ; flesh 

 yellow, running into green at the rind, fine grained, oily, and sflmewhat buttery, 

 60 per cent of the fruit; seed very large, conical, fitting loosely in the cavity; 

 flavor rich and nutty. Season, September to January. This tree is very vigor- 

 ous and symmetrical. Height, 25 feet; spread, 25 feet." (Higgins, The Avocado 

 in Hawaii.) 



From Harbin, China. Presented by Mr. Southard P. Warner, American 

 consul, at the request of the American consul at Newchwang. Received 

 February 5, 1914. 

 See report on the " Soya Bean of Manchuria," 1911. 



37062. Grown south of Harbin. 37063. Grown north of Harbin. 



37064. Campomanesia ob^t:rsa (^liq.) Berg. Guadiloba. 

 From Asuncion, Paraguay. Presented by the Museum of Natural History. 

 Received January 28, 1914. 

 " Branching shrub, leaves obovate to lanceolate-oblong, membraneous, puberu- 

 lent above, pubescent below, peduncle solitary, opposite, l-flowered. Called 

 Guadiloba by the natives in the Province of Minas Geraes, where it is common." 

 {Martins, Flora Brasiliensis, vol. 14, pt. 1, p. 445.) 



From Buitenzorg. Java. Presented by Dr. C. J. J. Van Hall, Department 

 of Agriculture. Received January 26. 1914. 



37065. Cbotalabia qoxquefolia L. 



Distribution. — An erect annual found in India and eastward through 

 the Malay Archipelago to the Philippines. 



37066. Stizolobium velutinum (Hassk.) Piper and Tracy (?). 



37067. Indigofeea ti^'ctoeia L. Indigo. 



37068. I:!sDIGOFEBA HIESUTA L. 



Annual or biennial, suberect, reaching 2 to 4 feet high, the pubescence 

 gray or brown. Leaves short petioled, 2 to 5 inches long; leaflets mem- 



37062 and 37063. Soja max (L.) Piper. 



Soy bean. 



{Glycine hispida Maxim.) 



37065 to 37068. 



