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BULLETIN 
S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 
20447 — Continued. 
very flat, broad, 4 inches long, fleshy, white, shrinking in maturing, 
the first ripe in 110 days. Seeds large, plump, reddish purple in color. 
Other lots from the same source are Nos. 2083, 6377, 25256, and 
31363. No. 4380, from Naples, is seemingly the same variety, judging 
from the seeds and the brief notes recorded. 
The green pods of this variety make a most excellent vegetable, very 
similar to snap beans, but even more delicate in flavor. This variety 
should be grown largely as an arbor vine, as it is not only ornamental, 
but also produces an abundance of delicious beans. 
A number of other lots introduced, concerning which no notes have 
been preserved, but which have similar seeds, are Nos. 3286. 3287, and 
3288, from Algeria, received under the name " Madagascar bean " ; 
No. 6319, from Tokyo, Japan ; and Nos. 25727 and 2572S. from Baroda, 
India. 
20891. From Kobe, Japan, 1907, under the name " fujimame." A vigorous 
variety with green foliage; flowers white; pods white, somewhat 
fleshy, the first maturing in about 120 days ; seeds large, plump, dark 
purple. This variety closely resembles No. 25158, but that has cream- 
colored, much smaller seeds. 
21352. From Teyhampett, Madras, India, 1907. A very viny sort, which sprawls 
on the ground ; herbage green ; late, no flowers being produced at 
Arlington Farm after 130 days ; seeds cream color, quite large, much 
compressed, distinct from any other sort with cream-colored seeds 
received. 
21947. From Buitenzorg, Java, 1908, under the name " katjang ieda." A mod- 
erately vigorous, late, viny variety ; stems purple ; leaflets green ; 
flowers pale purple ; no pods maturing at the end of 130 days ; seeds 
medium sized, dark purple to black, somewhat compressed. 
21948. From Buitenzorg. Java, 1908, under the name " kat.iang ypit." A vigor- 
ous late variety, barely coming into bloom at Arlington Farm in 130 
days ; flowers pink purple ; no pods formed ; seeds medium sized, rather 
plump, dark reddish purple. 
21949. From Buitenzorg. Java, 1908, under the name " katjang idjo." A very 
late purple-stemmed variety that did not bloom at Arlington in 1908. 
Seeds medium sized, purple black. 
21950. From Buitenzorg, Java, 1908. under the name " katjang ypit poetih." 
Very similar to the preceding when grown side by side. Seeds indis- 
tinguishable. 
21998. From Boshan, Shantung, China. 1908. An early, not very vigorous 
variety; plants growing about 30 inches high and as broad, rather 
bushy, a few of the branches vining to a length of 3 or 4 feet ; foliage 
green ; flowers white, on long, stout peduncles ; immature pods some- 
what fleshy, pale, 2.5 inches long, shrinking and becoming somewhat 
distorted when maturing, the first pod ripening in about 100 days : 
seeds subglobose, cream colored, with the micropyle. the strophiole. 
and a few spots on the back purple. 
Apparently identical with this are Nos. 25152 and 25153. both from 
Shanghai, China. No. 1S44S. from Shanghai. China, has identical seeds, 
but these did not germinate. 
22025. Progeny of a stray plant. Arlington Farm, identical with No. 4384. 
22934. From Karlsruhe, Germany, 1908. A slender, sprawling variety, with 
green stems and leaves; flowers purple, the first pods maturing in 
about 110 days; seeds small, dark purple to black. 
