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43810 to 43925— Continued. 



43868. Prunus pilosiuscula barbata Koehne. Amygdalacese. 



A shrub or tree of western China, sometimes up to 40 feet in height, 

 with deeply serrate, oval, or oblong leaves with tufts of hair on the 

 lower surfaces, pink, usually solitary flowers, and oblong red fruits. 

 (Adapted from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 5, p. 

 2836, and from Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. 1, p. '203.) 



43869. Prunus peosteata Labillard. Amygdalacese. Bush, cherry. 



A bush cherry found on stony and sterile mountain slopes in the Prov- 

 ince of Samarkand, Turkestan. It bears multitudes of small red cher- 

 ries of a sour taste. (Adapted from a note of Frank N. Meyer, dated 

 July 9-^11, 1910.) 



See also S. P. I. No. 28945 for further description. 



43870. Prunus subhietella ascendens (Makino) Wilson. Amygdala- 



cese. 



A tall, strong tree, native of central China and probably also in Chosen 

 (Korea) and Japan, with wide-spreading branches but few branchlets, 

 causing the head to have a thin appearance. The flowers are rosy pink 

 with red calyces, and the very small, globular, blackish red cherries are 

 somewhat astringent. It is cultivated in Japan and has been recently 

 introduced into the United States. (Adapted from Bailey, Standard 

 Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 5, p. 28Jfl.) 



43871. Peunus tomentosa endoteicha Koehne. Amygdalacese. 



A deciduous shrub from 4 to 8 feet high or a tree up to 22 feet in 

 height found in western Hupeh and northern Shensi, China. The 

 flowers are white, tinted with rose. (Adapted from Bean, Trees and 

 Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 256, and from Sargent, 

 Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. 1, p. 225.) 



See also S. P. I. No. 42576 for further description. 



43872. Amygdalus triloba (Lindl.) Ricker. Amygdalacese. 

 (Prunm triloba Lindl.) 



Var. Simplex. A flowering peach much cultivated in the gardens of 

 northern Chihli. The colors of its flowers range from pale pink to a dark 

 violet rose. (Adapted from a note by Frank N. Meyer, dated July 23, 

 1913.) 



See also S. P. I. No. 3671S for further description of the species. 



This seems to be an unpublished garden variety with single flowers. 



43873. Rhamnus davueicus nipponicus Makino. Rhamnacese. 



A large, spreading Japanese shrub with stout thorny branches and nar- 

 rowly oblong leaves, with pale-green lower surfaces, up to 6 inches in 

 length. The flowers occur in 2 to 5 flowered clusters, and the fruit is 

 black. (Adapted from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 

 5, p. 2924.) 



43874. Rhamnus japonicus Maxim. Rhamnacese. 



A Japanese shrub up to 8 or 9 feet in height, with glossy, pale-green 

 leaves from 1 to 3 inches long and greenish brown flowers produced in 

 May in dense clusters at the ends of short branches. The round fruit 

 is a quarter of an inch in diameter. This shrub flowers with great free- 

 dom, and the flowers have a faint, pleasant fragrance. (Adapted from 

 Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 334.) 



