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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



37632 to 37637— Conta. (Quoted notes by Mr. E. Thompstone.) 



37633. " No. 6. Tanngteik pan. This is also a main crop, transplanted 

 in July or August when the nursery plants are 30 to 45 days old. 

 Longevity is about 110 days from transplanting. Grains small and 

 soft; consumed largely by well-to-do people." 



37634. " No. 55. Nga cheik. Main crop, transplanted in July or August 

 when the nursery plants are 30 to 45 days old. Longevity is about 115 

 days from transplanting. It is a glutinous rice of black color; good 

 to eat." 



37635. " No. 157. Mya wa. Main crop, transplanted in July or August 

 when the nursery plants are 30 to 45 days old. Longevity is about 115 

 days from transplanting. Glutinous; fairly good to eat." 



37636. " No. 280. Byat pyu. Main crop, transplanted in July or August 

 when the nursery plants are 30 to 45 days old. Longevity is about 110 

 days from transplanting. Good to eat; consumed largely." 



37637. " No. 395. Kyaung hyu. Main crop, transplanted in .July or 

 August when the nursery plants are 30 to 45 days old. Longevity is 

 about 95 days. Rice soft, good to eat," 



37638 to 37646. 



From St. Petersburg, Russia. Presented by the director, Imperial Botanic 

 Gardens. Received March 19, 1914. 



37638. CoKONiLLA scoRPioiDES (L.) Koch. 



See S. P. I. No. 30106 for previous introduction. 



37639. Medicago falcata X sativa. 



37640. Clematis fusca mandshurica Regel. Clematis. 

 Distribution. — ^A suberect herbaceous perennial with grayish brown 



flowers, found in the eastern part of Asia from the Baikal region east- 

 ward to Kamchatka and Sakhalin, and in Japan. 



"A semiherbaceous climber, 8 or 9 feet high, stems angled, downy 

 when young. Leaves pinnate, 4 to 8 inches long, and composed mostly 

 of five or seven leaflets, which are ovate with a rounded or heart-shaped 

 base, and often long, tapering points, not toothed; smooth or slightly 

 downy beneath. Flowers solitary on stout stalks, which are one-half to 

 1 inch long, and thickly covered with reddish brown hairs. The flower 

 has the pitcher shape of the Viorna group, the sepals being three-fourths 

 to 1 inch long, the points recurved; outside they are reddish brown, 

 woolly. Seed vessels with tails about li inches long, plumed with yellow- 

 ish brown, silky hairs. Native of northeastern Asia, from Asiatic Russia- 

 through Manchuria to the Kuril Islands. It is an interesting but not 

 very ornamental plant, distinct in its group because of the very short, 

 hairy flower stalks and the hairiness generally of the flower. It gi'ows 

 very well and produces abundant seed." (W. J, Bean, Trees and iihruhs 

 Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. 36Q.) 



37641. Crataegus oxyacantha L. Hawthorn. 

 " Var. incisa." 



37642. Pruntts prostbata Labill. Bush cherry. 

 For previous introduction and description, see S. P. I. No. 28945. 



"A deciduous shrub, 2 to 3 feet high, of low, spreading habit and 

 measuring much more in width than it does in height. Branches slender. 



