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AGRICULTURAL VARIETIES OF THE COWPEA, ETC. 



21511. From Shanghai, China, June, 1907. Suberect, half busby, scarcely viny, 

 the row mass 24 inches high and about as broad; trailing branches 

 green ; leaves medium sized, free from rust, but much affected by 

 red leaf-spot; flowers violet purple; prolific; pods well filled, held 

 high, straw colored, 5£ to 8i inches long, the first maturing in 

 about 75 days, and all mature in 100 days; seeds black, subreni- 

 form, 6 by 8 mm. This is a prolific, fairly good variety, which 

 closely resembles 16796, but is decidedly more erect and bushy and 

 its branch tips twine but little. It is exactly matched by 29918, 

 from Hangchow, China. 



21535. Catjang. From Nagpur, Central Provinces, India. November, 1907. the 



vernacular name given as " Burbudi." Procumbent, fifty, vigorous, 

 the row mass 12 to 24 inches high. 3 to 3* feet broad, rather 

 sparse; trailing branches many, 3 to 4 feet long; leaflets medium 

 sized, dark, much affected by rust and somewhat by leaf-spot ; 

 flowers almost white; pods few, straw colored, 4 to 5 inches long, 

 the first maturing in about 120 clays: seeds white, with a buff eye. 

 oblong, about 4 by 6 mm.; iris darker. Grown three seasons. 



21535A. Catjang. Suberect, viny, vigorous, the row mass 24 to 36 inches high 

 and as broad but uneven; trailing branches 2 to 3 feet long; 

 leaflets dark, medium sized, subject both to rust and leaf-spot; 

 flowers pale violet purple; not prolific; pods well filled, held me- 

 dium high, straw colored, 3£ to 4 inches long, the first maturing 

 in 110 days ; seeds buff to vinaceous cinnamon, oblong rhomboid, 

 3 by 5 to 4 by 6 mm. 



21535B. Catjang. Procumbent, vigorous, very viny, the row mass 30 to 36 

 inches high, 3 to 4 feet broad; trailing branches many, 3 to 6 

 feet long ; leaflets medium sized, dark, much affected by rust, little 

 by leaf-spot ; flowers almost white ; pods few, straw colored, 3 to 

 5 inches long, the first maturing in about 120 days; seeds 4 by 5 

 mm., white with a large buff saddle which sometimes covers almost 

 the entire seed; iris brown. This catjang is of no promise. It is 

 practically identical in habit with 21535A, with buff seeds and 

 21535, with brown-eyed seeds. It may in fact be a hybrid between 

 those two. 



21536. Catjang. From the same source as 21535 and not distingushable from it. 



21537. From Nagpur, Central Provinces, India. November. 1907. under the ver- 



nacular name " Jhunga." Procumbent to nearly prostrate, half 

 bushy, very viny, not vigorous, the row mass 14 inches high, 18 

 inches broad; trailing branches many, 5 to 7 feet long; leaflets 

 large, dark, considerably affected both by rust and leaf-spot ; flowers 

 almost white ; not prolific ; pods well filled, held rather low, straw 

 colored, often purple tinged, 6 to 9 inches long, the first mature in 

 100 days ; seeds oblong, half crowder, white with large black eye, 

 about 6 by 8 mm. Grown three seasons; an undesirable variety. 

 Several acres drilled in 1908 made a tangled mass of herbage 2 feet 

 deep, not a single plant blooming. 



21538. From Nagpur, Central Provinces, India, October, 1907, vernacular name 



" Jhunga." Procumbent, very viny. vigorous, the row mass 12 to 

 14 inches high, 4 feet broad; trailing branches many, 5 to 6 feet 

 long ; leaflets large, held late, free from rust and leaf-spot ; 

 flowers pale violet purple ; no pods maturing in 1909 in 130 days ; 

 original seeds buff, variable, oblong to rhomboid, 5 to 6 by 7 to 

 8 mm. 



