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Introductory statement 1 



Inventory 7 



Index of common and scientific names 3 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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 Plate 1. A handsome, fall-blooming, broad-leaved evergreen from south- 

 ern China. {Gordonia axillaris (Roxb.) Szyszyl, S. P. I. 

 No. 45718) 10 



II. Koume nuts from Zanzibar. {Telfairia pcdata (J. E. Smith) 



Hook., S. P. I. No. 45923) 10 



III. Fruiting branch of a new disease-resistant chinquapin from 



China. {Castanea seguinii Dode, S. P. I. No. 45949) 48 



IV. A windbreak of athel protecting a date garden at Indio, Calif. 



{Tamarix aphylla (L.) Karst., S. P. I. No. 45952) 48 



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