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town and I strolled through it. I found a few specimens of a 
fruit called Sann pee-pah or wild loquat. It was the size of 
an unhulled walnut and looked like a yellow apple, save that 
it was spherical and marked into seven segments. It 
peeled like an apple. The flesh was about as thick as the 
hull of a walnut and very sour, but enclosed a core of seven 
lobes, each, save one, containing a seed. Each seed was 
enclosed in a sweet pulp very pleasant to the taste and 
suggesting the mangosteen to me." (Campbell.) For distribu- 
tion later. 
IPOMOEA BATATAS. ( Convolvulaceae . ) 32084-086. Seeds 
of sweet potatoes from Port Moresby, Papua. Presented by 
Mr. A. C. English, Barodobo Plantation, Kapa Kapa, Port 
Moresby. "Seeds of three varieties that we have here in this 
locality, which are great tuber producers. One is a white 
skin and white flesh, one a white skin and deep yellow flesh, 
and one a pink skin and white flesh. Seeds from sweet pota- 
toes are rarely known here, even amongst the natives who 
plant them extensively." (English.) May be valuable in crea- 
tion of new strains of sweet potato. For distribution later. 
MEDIC AGO FALCATA. (Fabaceae.) 32078. Seed of alfalfa 
from Tomsk, Siberia. "A tall, semi-erect form of 'Sholteek* 
growing four to five feet in height, having much foliage and 
bearing large pods containing heavy seeds. Apparently very 
little shattering. Collected in the Botanical Garden of the 
University of Tomsk. To be tested for forage purposes and 
for hybridization exclusively." (Meyer's introduction.) For 
distribution later. 
MICHELIA CHAMPACA. (Magnoliaceae . ) 32043. Seeds from 
Brazil. Presented by Mr. Welman Bradford, Crowley, Louisiana. 
"Magnolia having yellow blooms. Not as sweet as our variety. 
Grows thirty feet high. It is being planted in Sao Paulo as 
an ornamental street tree." (Bradford.)' For distribution 
later . 
ORYZA SATIVA, (Poaceae.) 32040. Seeds of rice from 
Aksu, Chinese Turkestan. A local variety of wetland rice, 
famous throughout Turkestan, which produces very large grains 
of a snow-white color, which swell tremendously in cooking 
and always remain separate. Will probably stand a consider-, 
able amount of alkali. (Meyer's introduction.) For distribu- 
tion later. 
PASSIFLORA SPP. (Passif loraceae . ) 32047-050. Seeds of 
"Maracujas*' from Brazil* Presented by Mr. Welman Bradford, 
