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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38868 to 38880— Continued. (Quoted notes by Mr. H. G. Carter.) 



38871 to 38874. Coix lacbyma-jobi ma-txen (Romanen Stapf. 



" From the superintendent and political officer. Southern Shan States, 

 Taungj i, Burriia." 



*• The fully cultivated and edible form, Mayuen, is grown (so far 

 as India is concerned ) in the Central Provinces. Sikkim, the Khasi 

 Hills. Burma, and the Shan States, and outside of India it appears 

 to be cultivated in Tonkin, China, and the Malaya, but apparently 

 nowhere else. In the elongated semipyriform states of cultivated 

 C. lacryma-jobi there is a further i)eculiarity. viz, a portion at the 

 base of the fruit spathe becomes constricted into a well-marked 

 annular disk. The condition with a soft and striated shell and basal 

 annulus appears to constitute the variety known to botanists as 

 Mayuen, a name given in honor of the Chinese general who is sup- 

 posed to have first pointedly directed attention to the plant." {Watt. 

 Commercial Froducts of India, which see for discussion of the plant 

 as a crop.) 

 38875 to 38880. 



" From the superintendent and political officer, Southern Shan States, 

 TaungA-i, Burma." 



38875. Coix LACBYMA-joBi STE>-oc-YBPA (Oliver) Stapf. 

 No. 36328. 



" In the variety known as stenocarpa the capsular spathe is elon- 

 gated until it becomes cylindrical, but when cultivated the tubes (so 

 formed) change in color to chalky wliite or become almost straw 

 colored." (iraff, Commercial Products of India.) 



38876. CoiX LACBYMA-JOBI L. 



Xo. 36329. 



38877 to 38879. Coix lacbyma-jobi iiA-YiTEX (Romanet) Stapf. 



38878. Xo. 36.332. 



38880. CoiX LACBY21A-J0BI L. 



" No. 36339. This shows a transitional form of variety stenocarpa 

 passing into variety tnonilifer." 



" The flattened spheroidal form, the connecting link between C. 

 lacryma-johi and var. stenocarpa, is the special bead form. It is a 

 wild plant met with chiefly in Burma, the Malaya, China, and 

 Japan, and has been named by me var. monilifer." {Watt, Commer- 

 cial Products of India.) 



38881 and 38882. Passitloea malitgrmis L. Passifloraceae. 



Passion fruit. 



From Bogota, Colombia. Presented by Mr. T. A. Thomson, American 

 minister, who obtained them from Mr. F. L. Rockwood, clerk of the 

 legation, Bogota. Received July 24, 1914. Quoted notes by Mr. Rock- 

 wood. 



38871. No. 36324. 



38872. No. 36325. 



38873. No. 36326. 



38874. No. 36327. 



38877. No. 36331. 



38879. No. 36333. 



