46 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



45190 to 45193. 



Grown at the Plant Introduction Field Station, Chico, Calif. Numbered 

 for convenience in distribution. 



45190. AyiSACASTUvs thureeri (Toit.) A. Gray. Acanthaceiie. 



Ornamental acauthiiceous shrub, 2 to 4 feet high, with opposite, nearly 

 lanceolate, tliickish leaves and showy purplish red funnelform flowers, 

 solitary or in leafy clusters in the axils. Native of Mexico, New Mexico, 

 and Arizona. (Adapted from Gray, Synoptical Flora of North America, 

 vol. 2, part 1, 2d ed., p. 328.) 



45191. Argemone platyceras Link and Otto. Papaveraceie. 



A rose-colored form of a showy flowered annual occasionally met with 

 in gardens and found groAving wild in the Southwestern States. A very 

 spiny, glaucous-leaved, robust plant with large poppylike flowers. 



45192. QuAMOCLiDioN MULTiFLOBUM Torr. Nyctagiuaceae. 



A low diffusely branched perennial herb with smooth, ovate leaves 

 and large purplish red flowers in clusters in a broad calyxlike involucre. 

 The showy flowers have a thick, rather long tube spreading into a wide 

 limb. Native from Colorado to western Texas and Arizona. (Adapte<l 

 from Wooton and Standlcy, Flora of New Mexico, p. 222.) 



45193. Zauschneria californica Presl. Onagracese. 



California fuchsia. 



A half-hardy perennial with showy scarlet flowers resembling those 

 of fuchsia but erect, not pendent. It is rather variable in form of 

 leaves and in hardiness. Native of the southwestern United States. 



45194. CuDRANiA TRicuspiDATA (Carr.) Bureau. Moracese. 



(C triloba Hance.) 



Grown at the Yarrow Plant Introduction Field Station, Rockville, Md., 

 from seed received from the P. J. Berckmans Co.. Augusta, Ga., Novem- 

 ber, 1916. Numbered for convenience in distribution. 

 A small deciduous tree, with slender, thorny branches and fleshy subglobose 

 edible fruits. The P. J. Berckmans Co., in sending in the seed, reported that 

 although the one tree left in their nursery at that time had fruited very well, 

 it was rather difficult to get many fruits at one time, because the laborers 

 seem very fond of them. 



45195. IMadpiuca indica Gmel. Sapotace?e. Mahwa. 

 (Bassia latifolia Roxb.) 



From Seharunpur, India. Seeds presented by Mr. A. C. Hartless, super- 

 intendent, Government Botanic Gardens. Received September 24, 1917. 



A large deciduous tree from northern India, cultivated widely in India for 

 its cream-colored, fleshy, sweet corollas, which are dried for eating and for 

 the manufacture of spirits. Introduced for trial in Florida. 



45196. Croton tigliu3i L. Euphorbiacese. Croton-oil plant. 



From St. Louis, Mo. Presented by Mr. G. H. Pring, Missouri Botanical 

 Garden. Received September 24, 1917. 

 " A small oi-namental tree with ovate leaves varying in color frum metallic 

 green to bronze and orange. The powerful purgative, croton oil, is obtained 

 from the .seeds by crushing.'" <J. B. S. Norton.) 



