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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



37223. Dendrocalamus strictus (Roxb.) Nees. 



Bamboo. 



From Lansdowne, India. Collected by Mr. R. S. Woglum, Bureau of 

 Entomology, while on his trip to India in 1911. 

 "A very useful and strong bamboo of India, formerly used universally for 

 spear shafts. The plant flowers frequently and does not die down after flower- 

 ing, as is the case with so many bamboos. The culms are said sometimes to 

 reach a height of 100 feet. (Woglum.) 



From Algiers, Algeria. Presented by Dr. L. Trabut, director. Service 

 Botanique. Received February 20, 1914. 



37224. CORDIA OBLIQUA Willd. 



"A beautiful tree, very vigorous with us, introduced as seed from Cochin 

 China." (Trabut.) 



Distribution. — Western India, extending from the Punjab region south- 

 ward to Ceylon. 



A small, twisted, boraginaceous tree, up to 20 feet in height, with 

 alternate, ovate leaves, smooth above, hairy on the veins below; and 

 lateral or terminal cincinnal inflorescences of small white flowers. From 

 Java and Sumatra. (Adapted from Koorders and Valeton, Mededeelingen 

 uit 'sLands Plantentuin, vol. 42, p. 67, 1900.) 



37225. JuGLANS REGiA L. Walnut. 

 " The nut has been cultivated in the mountains by the natives from 



the most ancient times; they propagate them by sowing seed, and they 

 have thus obtained some very fine varieties, which are fixed." (Trabut.) 



37226. CoLOCAsiA antiquorum Schott. Taro. 



From Mr. H. B. Shaw, who obtained them as a sample from a shipment 

 from Beirut, Syria, imported by M. J. Corbett & Co., brokers, of New 

 York. Corms received February 1, 1914. 



"A variety of taro apparently identical with the Egyptian taro. The quality 

 is inferior." (R. A. Young.) 



37227. Coix LACRYMA-joBi L. Job^s-tears. 



From Pamplemousses, Mauritius. Presented by the overseer, Royal Botanic 

 Garden. Received February 26, 1914. 



From Seoul, Chosen (Korea). Presented by Mr. George H. Scidmore, 

 American consul general. Received February 17, 1914, 



" I submit the following information, which has been obtained, for the most 

 part, from the Director of the Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and In- 

 dustry, of the General Government of Chosen. The same officer has very kindly 

 supplied samples of 98 varieties of soy beans. 



" The usual period during which the seed is sown extends from the middle 

 of May to about July 10. In case the sowing is postponed till the latter part 

 of that period the fields from which wheat has already been harvested are used. 

 The soil is first prepared by plowing and is then shaped into small hemispherical 

 hillocks about 4 feet in diameter, The seed is planted in drill holes on the 



37224 and 37225. 



37228 to 37325. Soja max (L.) Piper. 



Soy bean. 



(Glycine hispida Maxim.) 



