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SEEDS AXD PLANTS IMPaRTED. 



37119 to 37121— Continued. 



It goes without saying that, cultivated in pots, this species will serve in 

 the decoration of apartments, in the filling of jardinieres, etc." {E. A, 

 Carriere in Revne Horticole, 1SS9, p. 467.) 



3712a Coix LACBYMA-jOBi L. Job's-tears. 



For a detailed account of this crop plant, see the Agricultural Ledger, 

 1904. no. 13. 



37121. CoEDiA SUAVEOLENS Bluiue. 



A large boraginaceous tree up to 60 feet in height, with alternate, 

 variable leaves, equal or unequal at the base, acute or slightly obtuse, 

 rotund elliptic or narrowly ovate, papery, hairy in the axils of the 

 nerves; flowers small and white in terminal or axillary cymes. (Adapted 

 from Koorders and Valeton, Mededeelingen iiit 'sLands Plantentuin, vol. 

 42, p. 69, 1900.) 



37122 to 37124. Carica papaya L. Papaya. 



From San Jose, Costa Rica. Presented by Mr. Carlos Werckle, Depart- 

 mcHt of Agriculture. Received January 31, 1914, in three separate pack- 

 ets, but without varietal names or descriptions. 



37125. GossYPiuM BARBADExsE L. Cotton. 

 From Angola, Africa. Presented by Rev. W. P. Dodson. Received January 



26, 1914. 



" I have often thought of how highly Egyptian cotton has been spoken of 

 and thought you would like to try some from Angola. As the natives make it 

 up it is very strong. The truth is, that even the natives prize these seeds they 

 are so scarce, owing to the fact that it is practically a wild plant. This cot- 

 ton is very strong. A single thin cord of it is used by the native to sew up 

 his cloth or mulele. Many old men are found spinning, and ten years ago a 

 few used to weave, but weaving is now almost a lost art. I have in America 

 a sample of the cloth, about four yards of it, sewed together. It is coarse, 

 but good and very strong work. When a native has such a cloth it lasts him 

 for as long as ten years." (Dodson.) 



37126. Chayota EDULis Jacq. Chayote. 

 From Altadena, Cal. Procured from the West India Gardens. Received 



February 7, 1914. 



Secured for experimental work at one of the plant introduction field stations. 



37127. Crataegus pixxatifida Bimge. Hawthorn. 

 From Soochow, China. Presented by Mr. N. Gist Gee, Soochow Univer- 

 sity. Received February 10, 1914. 



See S. P. I. No. 35456 for previous introduction and description. 



37128. FrECPvAEA elegaxs Todaro. 



From La Mortola, Ventimiglia. Italy. Presented by Mr. Alwin Berger, 

 curator of the garden. Received February 9, 1914. 

 " This is one of the seventeen species of the genus Furcraea, succulent desert 

 plants from Central America and particularly from Mexico. The perianth is 

 whitish and wheel shaped. The cushions have a sv.'elling at the base, in which 

 respect it differs from Agave, a genus bearing a somewhat close resemblance. 



