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39573. Garoinia multtflora Champion. Clusiaceae. 



From Kiayingchow, China. Presented by Rev. George Campbell. Received 

 December 17, 1914. 



" Shan pi pa. Dr. Chang sent me these fruits and added a note to the effect 

 that people said the fruit is entirely wholesome. It has a pleasant subacid taste, 

 something like an orange, but there is little meat. From a bush with deeply 

 lobed leaves." (Campbell.) 



39574 and 39575. Berberis spp. Berbericlaceae. Barberry. 



From Elstree, Herts, England. Presented by Hon. Vicary Gibbs, Alden- 

 ham House Gardens. Plants received December 21, 1914. 



39574. Berberis aggregata Schneider. 



" This is one of Wilson's recent introductions from China, and was 

 shown (at a Royal Horticultural Society show) as a richly berried, 

 open-spreading bush about 18 inches high. The leaves, dull green above 

 and gray green below, are in axillary rosettes of about nine. They vary 

 from ovate and entire to oblanceolate, with a few teeth or spiny hairs on 

 the upper half, and are generally about one-half by one-fourth inch. The 

 berries are small, nearly globular, and borne in dense close-seated clus- 

 ters, in one of which we counted as many as 21 berries, though there 

 are, more generally, only half that number. They are a very charming 

 creamy green color, suffused with coral, and reminding one of those 

 of B. wilsonae." (Gardeners' Chronicle, September 27, 1913.) 



39575. Berberis subcaulialata Schneider. 



"A deciduous shrubby western Chinese barberry with strongly angulate 

 branches, oblanceolate leaves, one-half to 1 inch long, acute, rarely 3- 

 pointed at the apex, whitish beneath; flowers in very short 6 to 8 flow- 

 ered racemes or rarely fascicled, nodding. Fruit globose, red." (Rehder. 

 In Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture.) 



See S. P. I. No. 37497 for previous introduction. 



39576. Quercus cyclobalanoides Trelease. Fagacese. Oak. 



From Vera Cruz, Mexico. Presented by Dr. C. A. Purpus. Received De- 

 cember 21, 1914. 



"Fine, large tree, which has, as I am told, a most excellent wood. The oak 

 will grow well in your colonies, Porto Rico, or the Philippines." (Purpus.) 



39577. Crataegus pinnatifida Bunge. Malacea?. Hawthorn. 



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

 ceived December 21, 1914. 



39578. Alsophila sp. Tree fern. 



From Baguio, Philippine Islands. Presented by Mr. P. J. Wester, horti- 

 culturist, Lamao, Bataan. Received December lit, L914. 



"This is a tree fern, attaining a height of about 20 feet, with slender stem 

 and very graceful, growing between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, altitude. The stems 

 are now being utilized by the Bureau of Education at their trade school in 



