1HDICAG0 FALCATA X SATIVA. (Fabaceae.) 27739-754, 28296-303. 
Hybrids "between Medicago falcata (female) and various 
strains and varieties of Medicago sativa. Parents selected 
and hybrids made by Messrs. J. M. Westgate and W. J. Morse 
at the Arlington Experimental Farm during the summer of 
• 1908. For distribution spring of 1911. 
MEDICAGO SATIVA. (Fabaceae.) 27737-738. Plants growing at 
Arlington Experimental Farm, Virginia. "Two of four sur- 
viving plants from an alfalfa field near Weskan, Kansas, 
twenty years old, the rest having succumbed to the extreme 
drought and encroachment of buffalo grass. These plants were 
secured by me under Agrostology numbers 42 and 43, summer 
of 1907." (J. M. Westgate.) For immediate distribution. 
MEDICAGO SATIVA. (Fabaceae.) 28359. Guaranda alfalfa from 
Ecuador. Procured by Mr. Herman R. Dietrich, American 
Consul General, Gua3raquil. For immediate distribution. 
MELILOTUS MACROSTACHYS . (Fabaceae.) 28357. From Maison- 
Carree, Algeria. Presented by the Botanic Garden. For 
distribution later. 
NEPHELIUM SPP. ( Sapindaceae . ) 28332-341. From Buitenzorg, 
Java. Presented by the Director of Agriculture. Hos. 
28332-334. NEPHELIUM' MUT ABIDE. Three varieties of kapoel- 
asRn. Eos. 28335-341. NEPHELIUM DAPPACEUM . Seven varie- 
ties of r^mboetan. For description and photograph see Bull. 
31, of this series. For distribution later. 
ORYZA SATIVA. (Poaceae.) 28346-350. Five varieties of rice 
from the Philippine Islands. Received through Mr. Wm. S. 
Lyon. For distribution later. 
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PASS I FLORA EDULIS. (Passif loraceae . ) 28353. From Mad r a s 
Presidency, India. Presented by Mr. P. S. Kanetkar. "Edible 
passion fruit grown for culinary purposes." (Kanetkar.) For 
distribution later. 
PHYLLANTHUS EMBLICA. ( Euphorbiaceae . ) 28328. From Kandaw- 
glay, Rangoon, Burma, India. Presented by the Secretary of 
the Agri-horticultural Society of Burma. "A small, deciduous 
tree found in China, Japan, India and elsewhere. The unrip© 
fruit, formerly official in medicine, is known commercially 
as emblic myrobalans, and with the leaves^ and bark is used 
in tanning. The leaves have been found to contain 18 per 
cent tannin, and the bark 12.6 per cent." (W. W. Stock- 
berger.) For distribution later. 
