12 SEEDS AXD PLANTS IMPORTED. 



457S7 to 45729. 



From Jamaica Plain, Mass. Presented by the Arnold Arboretum. Re- 

 ceived January 8, 1918. 



45727. Amygdalus triloba (Lindl.) Ricker. Amygdalacese. 



{Prunus triloba Lindl.) Flowering almond. 



One of the most beautiful of all hardy flowering shrubs ; it is covered 

 with a profusion of pink and white flowers and will thrive in almost any 

 good garden soil, either as a bush in the open or trained to a wall. It 

 may be planted at any time during the winter, and once it has filled its 

 allotted space it should be closely pruned each spring immediately after 

 blooming. The flowers are borne on the young wood; hence, by re- 

 moving this promptly at the time stated, vigorous new shoots are pro- 

 duced for flowering the following year. (Adapted from The Garden, vol. 

 79, p. 17.) 



45728. CoTONEASTER FovEOLATA Rehd. and Wils. Malacese. 



•" Cotonea^ter foveolata is a tall shrub with black fruit and leaves 

 which late in the autumn turn to brilliant shades of orange and scarlet. 

 For its autumn foliage this plant might well find a place in every 

 garden." {Arnold Arlioretum Btilletm of Popular Information No. 50.) 



45729. Rosa helenae Rehd. and Wils. Rosacese. Rose. 



" Rosa helenae is very abundant in rocky places from river level to 

 1,500 meters everywhere in western Hupeh and eastern Szechwan, but 

 it has not yet been reported from farther west. In wayside thickets and 

 by the banks of streams it forms tangled masses often 6 meters tall and 

 as much through, and in the margins of woods it rambles over small 

 trees. When covered with masses of its white fragrant flowers this 

 rose is very beautiful. It has proved quite hardy and has flowered pro- 

 fusely at the Arnold Arboretum." {Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. 

 2, pt. 2, p. 311.) 



45730 and 45731. 



From the city of Panama, Panama. Plants presented by Sr. Ramon Arias- 

 Feraud. Received January 9, 1918. 



45730. Cephaelis sp. Rubiacese. 



" Obtained in the Chiriqui Mountains." {Arias-Feraud.) 

 " Raicilla, or ipecacnana. A shrub 8 to 16 inches high, with ascending 

 or erect simple stem and somewhat creeping root. • It is one of the sources 

 of the medicinal ipecacuana. The typical plant grows in Peru, but 

 specimens of closely allied or identical species from Central America 

 are in the economic collection of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



" Roots and stems only were received, so that it is impossible to iden- 

 tify this plant with certainty." (IF. E. Safford.) 



45731. Smilax officinalis H. B. K. Smilacacese. Sarsaparilla, 



" Obtained in the Chiriqui Mountains." {Arias-Feraud.) 



" Chiriqui sarsaparilla. A climbing plant with square stem, armed 

 along the angles with triangular prickles resembling those of a rose. 

 Leaves glabrous, often a foot long, variable in form, often triangular or 

 oblong, acute at the apex, cordate or somewhat auriculate at the base, 

 with two or three longitudinal nerves on each side of the midrib ; petioles 



