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MEDICAGO LUPULINA. (Fabaceae.) 31395. Seeds of "black 
medick from Foochow, China. Presented "by Mr. T. M. Wilkinson, 
"A plant with low growing stems, inclined to lie along the 
ground and take root at the joints. Starts in new places 
like white clover. Leaf about the size of white clover. 
Blossom yellow. " (Wilkinson.) For distribution later. 
MEDICAGO SP. (Fahaceae.) 31467. Seeds of alfalfa from 
Quetta, India. Secured by Mr. F. Booth Tucker, The Salvation 
Army, Simla, India, from Mr. G. H. Frost, Sub- conductor , 
Office of Military Farm, fyuetta. For distribution later. 
MEDIC AGO SP. (Fahaceae.) 31465. Seeds of alfalfa from 
Jeolikote, United Provinces, India. Presented by Mr. Norman 
Gill, Superintendent, Kumaun Government Gardens, Douglas 
Dale, at the request of Rev. N. L. Rockey, Gonda, United 
Provinces. For distribution later. 
MECONOPSIS SIMPLICIFOLIA. (Papaveraceae . ) 31025. Seeds 
from St. Petersburg Botanical Garden. Presented by the 
Director. "A perennial herb with large blue-purple flowers 
found on the subalpine slopes of the Himalayas at an eleva- 
tion cf 12000 to 14000 feet, in Nepal and Sikkim in northern 
India." (Skeels.) Introduced with others of the genus for 
trial, in the hope of finding a thoroughly hardy blue poppy, 
and also for possible use in breeding work with the hardier 
poppies already in cultivation. For distribution later. 
PERSEA AMERICANA. (Lauraceae.) 31381. Seeds of avocado 
from Mexico. Secured on the market at Laredo, Texas, by Mr. 
David Griffiths, of this Bureau. "A Mexican avocado. Only one 
of the kind found. Brown-black in color. The outer skin, 
hard, rather brittle, and easily peeled off from the edible 
flesh. Flavor good, flesh firm." (Griffiths.) For distribu- 
tion later. 
PHELLODENDRON SACHALINENSE . (Rutaceae.) 30864. Seeds' 
from Sapporo, Japan, Presented by Prof. T. Minami, Botanic 
Garden. "Of the three species of this genus established in 
the Arboretum, Phellodendron sachalinense is the handsomest. 
All the species are natives of eastern Asia, and are small 
trees with pinnate leaves, small clusters of inconspicuous 
yellow flowers, the male and female flowers being produced on 
different individuals, and black berry-like fruits j they have 
bright yellow wood and roots, and all parts of these trees 
are permeated with a fragrant aromatic oil which apparently 
makes them immune from the attacks of insects. P. sachali- 
nense, which is a native of Saghalin and the northern island 
of Japan, has grown in the Arboretum into a tree about thirty 
