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Descriptive notes 
Explorers and Foreign C 
important introduced pi 
the Office of Foreign 
Bureau of Plant Industr 
together with accounts 
vious introductions, 
vised and published lat 
ported . 
furnished mainly- by Agric 
orrespondents relative to t 
ants which have recently arr 
Seed and Plant Introduction 
y of the Department of Agrlcultu 
of the behavior In America of pre- 
Descriptions appearing here are re- 
er In the Inventory of Plants Im- 
No. Hi 
FEBRUARY 1916. 
Genera Represented in this Number. 
Page 
Page 
Aesculus 
962 
Juglans 
966 
Andropogon 
962 
Linum 
966 
Apluda 
963 
Passlf lora 
966 
Cariniana 
963 
Plnus 
967 
Cenchrus 
963 
Piratinera 
967 
Chionachne 
963 
Prunus 
967 
Chloris 
963 
Sesban 
968 
Ghrysopogon 
964 
Solanum 
968 
Crataegus 
964 
Styrax 
969 
Eragrostls 
964 
Thelepogon 
969 
Escallonla 
965 
Tricholaena 
969 
Indlgof era 
965 
Virola 
970 
Isellema 
965 
Vltis 
970 
The Tangsi cherry, Prunus pseudocerasus . 
Plant of Garbanzo, Clcer arletlnum. 
Chinese wet-land ginger, Zlnziber officinale. 
A grove of the Tamopan Persimmon, Diospyros kaki. 
Applications for material listed in these multlgraphed 
sheets may be made at any time to this Office. As they 
are received they are placed on file, and when the materi- 
al is ready for the use of experimenters it is sent to 
those on the list of applicants who can show that they are 
prepared to care, for it as well as to others selected 
because of their special fitness to experiment with the 
particular plants imported. Do not wait for the annual 
List of New Plant Introductions. 
One of the main objects of the Office of Foreign Seed 
and Plant Introduction Is to secure material for plant 
experimenters, and it 'will undertake as far as possible to 
fill any specific requests for foreign seeds or plants 
from plant breeders and others Interested. 
