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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPOKTED. 



38860. Feroniella lucida (Scheff.) Swingle. Rutacese. 

 [Feronia lucida Scheff.) 



From Buitenzorg, Java. Presented by the director. Department of Agri- 

 culture. Received July 24, 1914. 

 For description, see W. T. Swingle. In Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of 

 Horticulture. 



38861. Maxihot esclxexta Crantz. Euphorbiaceae. Cassava. 

 (Manihot utiUssinia Pohl. i 



From Asuncion. Paraguay. Presented by Mr. C. F. Mead. Received July 

 23. 1914. 



** Concepcion (long thick canes).*' 

 For description, see S. P. I. No. 3SS57. 



38862. Hymexaea courbaril L. Caesalpiniacese. Guapinol. 



From San Jose, Costa Rica. Presented by the Department of Agi'iculture. 

 Received July 16, 1914. 

 See S. P. I. No. 3S565 for previous introduction. 



"One of the most beautiful trees of the tierra caliente of the Pacific coast, 

 with low trunk and flattened forking, and with leaves composed of two leaflets 

 and imitating a deer's skull. Its fruits are short, thick pods, chocolate color, 

 enclosing variegated seeds surrounded by a dry white powder, used as food by 

 the Indians. The wood is hard and used in the construction of various articles 

 as, for example, mills for grinding cane." (Pittier, Plantes Usuales de Costa 

 Rica.) 



38863. Stizolobit^m sp. Fabaceae. 



From Schoeneberg, Berlin, Germany. Presented by Prof. Dr. G. Schwein- 

 furth. Received July 16, 1914. 

 " Probably from Tabora, German East Africa, but there is no definite infor- 

 mation on this point. This Stizolobium has short, gray, appressed pubescence 

 on the pods, and the seeds are pale gray, thickly spotted, and clouded with 

 brown. Both the pods and the seeds resemble very closely some of the hybrids 

 obtained between the Lyon bean and the Florida velvet bean. This suggests 

 that the present Stizolobium may likewise be a hybrid." (C. V. Piper.) 



38864 and 38865. Medicago sati^ a L. Fabaceae. Alfalfa. 

 From General Roco, Rio Negro, Argentina. Presented by Mr. Walter 

 Fischer, director, Experiment Station, General Roco. Received July 24, 

 1914. 



"It is customary in this valley, where everything is grown under irrigation 

 and where four cuttings of alfalfa are made per season, to save the second cut- 

 ting for the seed crop when seed is desired. The object of this is to get a crop 

 more free of weeds than the first cutting would be, and in which there is very 

 often quite a large amount of trelyol de olor (Meli^otus parvifiora, I believe). 

 A.<a a rule, however, there are very few weeds in any of the alfalfa fields here. 

 These seeds are as they came from the machine, with only the coarse chaff 

 removed." (Fischer.) 



38864. No. 1. From the first cutting. 



38865. No. 2. From the second cutting. 



