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The best method of cultivating this insectioidal plant in China 
is described, — Ku ( 236 )* 
Extracts applied as sprays against adult mosquitoes were much 
inferior to the standard mosquito cide*— Wats and Singh ( 421 ) . 
An alcoholic extract of roots from China was tested against the 
bean aphid. Concentrations of lj 0.5, and 0.25 percent each paralyzed 
100 percent of the aphids sprayed, but a 0*1 percent concentration 
paralyzed only 55 percent* In toxicity these roots were better than 
the leaves of Tephrosia vogelii and equal to the roots of T. macropoda 
which were tested at the same time, but not equal to the rotenone- 
rich roots of D err is elliptioa * Unless greatly improved by selection 
it oould not commercially compete with D* elliptica , but where locally 
available it ahould prove of value*— Tattersfi eld and coworkers (394 ) • 
The seeds are toxic to several species of insects* Further studies 
on this plant offer a fertile and promising field* — Chiu and coworkers 
(95)* 
Comments by reviewer *— More work on this promising plant should 
be done using insects other than aphids and caterpillars* 
MILLETTIA PISCIDIA (Roxb*) Wight* 
The powder of the bark and flowers was used as a fish poison and 
as an inseotioide in India.— Roark ( 552 , p. 30) • 
MILLETTIA RETICULATA Benth. Roy-teng* 
This plant was especially efficient for the large cabbage beetle, 
Colaphellus bowringii (Baly), in China*— China National Agricultural 
Res ear oh Bureau (91)* 
This plant grows in China, where the farmers obtained good results 
with the powder against cabbage pests* In laboratory tests the powdered 
roots dusted on food plants killed only 55 percent of the nymphs of 
a grasshopper but 100 percent of the adults of Colaphellus bowringii 
(Baly).— China National Agricultural Research Bureau (92) • ~ 
MILLETTIA TAUWANIA Hayata. 
This specieB is found in Formosa* The crushed fresh roots pro- 
vided a liquid having insectioidal properties due to rotenone* This 
plant served for the preparation of medicaments used against scab*— 
Scar one (353) * 
MONDULEA SERICEA (Willd.) A. Cheval* Synonym: M. suberosa (Ro*b.) 
Benth* Mundulea* 
Preparations of this plant were effective against aphids, mango 
hoppers, and mosquito larvae but not more than 50 or 60 percent of 
