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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



37559. Amygdalus pedunculata Pallas. 

 iPrunus veduiwulata Maxim.) 

 From Chita, Transbaikal, Siberia. Presented by Mr. M. M. Timogowitsch. 

 Received March 14, 1914. 

 Distribution. — A shrub found in the region around Lake Baikal in south- 

 eastern Siberia and in northeastern Mongolia. 



37560 to 37562. Berberis spp. Barberry. 



From Madrid, Spain. Presented by the curator, Botanic Garden, Madrid. 

 Received March 19, 1914. 



37560. Berberis macracantha Schrader. 



37561. X Berberis neuberti Lemaire. 



" This species of Berberis is a hybrid between Berberis aquifolium and 

 B. vulgaris. The branches are grayish brown, without spnies, and up- 

 right. The leaves are simple, oval or ovate, sometimes with one or two 

 smaller leaflets. They are li inches to 3 inches in length, spiny or 

 setulose dentate, and dark grayish green above. The flowers are borne 

 in racemes. This species of Berberis is hardy in the north, but the leaves 

 are not persistent." (Bailey, Cyclopedia of American Horticulture.) 



" The older leaves are alternate, solitary, evergreen, and in form, color, 

 and substance like those of the common holly. In the axils of some of 

 these are borne tufts of leaves resembling those of the common Berberis, 

 not only in their tufted arrangement, but also in their form, texture, 

 serration, and deciduous character. The leaves of the common Berberis, 

 however, are all simple, while many of these are ternate, some palmately, 

 others piunately so (i. e., the three leaflets are either stalked or sessile). 

 The holly like leaves we take to be exaggerated representatives of the 

 palmately divided spines that are commonly met with in the barberry. 

 A similar exaggeration of development is manifested in the ternate leaves. 

 We are indebted to Mr. Nicholson for the identification of this Berberis • 

 with that called in German nurseries B. neuberti X, which originated in 

 A. N. Baumann's nursery at BoUweiler, in Alsace, as an accidental cross 

 between the purple-leaved variety of B. vulgaris and the common Mahonia 

 {B. aquifolium). The explanation of the singular conformation of the 

 plant, with some of the leaves evergreen, others deciduous, is thus 

 furnished by its mixed parentage." (Gardeners' Chronicle, June 26, 1886.) 



37562. Berberis sp. 



(Glycine hispida Maxim.) 

 From Songdo, Chosen (Korea). Presented by Rev. W. G. Cram, the Anglo- 

 Korean School. Received March 19, 1914. 



White Manchurian soy bean. 



37564 and 37565. Vigna spp. 



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

 February 21, 1914. 



37564. Vigna cylindeica (Stickman) Skeels. Cowpea. 

 Received as Dolichos, long Tonkin bean. 



37565. Vigna sesquipedalis (L.) Fruwirth. Asparagus bean. 

 " Received as extra long-podded Dolichos. This is a buff-seeded variety 



of the asparagus or yard-long bean." (W. J. Morse,) 



Soy bean. 



