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61069 to 51072— Continued. 



51070. Chaetochloa geniculata (Lam.) Millsp. and Cbase. Poacese. 



Grass. 



" Culue-kHm (caterpillar grass)." 



"A perennial grass producing short knotty branching rhizomes as 

 much as 4 centimeters long. The culms are erect, spreading, or pros- 

 trate, up to 1 meter tall. The blades are flat, scabrous, and often 

 glaucous, mainly straight, 20 centimeters long and 8 millimeters wide. 

 The exserted panicle is yellow, purple, tawny, or greenish, 1 to 10 centi- 

 meters long and 4 to 8 millimeters thick. Native to open ground, salt 

 marshes, and moist coast lands from Connecticut to Florida and Texas, 

 in the interior north to Kansas and south through tropical America to 

 Argentina and Chile." {A. S. Hitchcock.) 



51071. Chaetochloa sulcata (Aubl.) Hitche. Poaceee. Grass. 

 (Setaria sulcata Raddi.) 



" Hotz-kor ( scrape-leaf) ." 



"A perennial grass with robust culms as much as 4 meters tall, with 

 flat blades, 1 meter long and 10 centimeters wide at the middle, tapering 

 at each end. The green or purplish panicles are often 70 centimeters 

 long. Native to southern Mexico, northern South America and north 

 in the Windward Islands to Guadeloupe." {A. S. Hitchcock.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 38776. 



51072. Paspalum paniculatum L. Poaceae. Grass. 

 Chia-djue (fodder of roe)." 



A weedy branching perennial, commonly 1 meter tall, with harshly 

 pubescent flat blades 20 to 30 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters wide 

 and very numerous slender racemes crowded in oblong panicles. Native 

 to open or partly shaded savannas, mostly moist ground from Mexico 

 and the West Indies to South America. (Adapted from Hitchcock and 

 Chase, Contributions from the National Herbarium, vol. 17, p. 317.) 



51073. Tritolium resupinatum L. Fabaceae. Clover. 

 From Cairo, Egypt. Seeds collected for Prof. S. C. Mason, arboriculturist. 

 United States Department of Agriculture, by Thomas W. Brown, director. 

 Horticultural Division, Ministry of Agriculture. Received July 20, 1920. 

 "A small prostrate clover common in the sod *of the parks and gardens 

 around Cairo, usually in heavy soils." (Mason.) 



51074 and 51075. Blakea spp. Melastomacese. 



From San Jose, Costa Rica. Seeds presented by Dona Amparo de Zeleddn. 

 Received July 23, 1920. Quoted notes by Sra de Zelod6n. 



51074. BlaivEa sp. 



"An epiphyte with very large carmhie-magenta flowers." 



51075. Blakea sp. 



"An epiphyte with very large carmine-magenta flowers." 



51076 to 51084. 



From Batum, Transcaucasia, Russia. Seeds presented by John Palibin, 

 director, Botanic Garden, through Charles K. Moser, American consul, 

 Tiflis, Transcaucasia. Received July 23, 1920. Quoted notes by Mr. 

 Palibin. 



