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Citrus spp. (Rutaceae. ) 40674-676. Three varieties of cit- 

 ron from the Lamao Experiment Station, Lamao , Bataan, pre- 

 sented by Mr. P. J. Wester, Horticulturist. Two varieties 

 remarkable for precocity, one of them, perhaps the small- 

 est citrus In the genus, practically ever bearing, the 

 other highly aromatic and differing strikingly from the 

 citron in its growth. 



Cotoneaster spp. (Malaceae. ) 40730, 40734-737. Seeds of 

 five species of cotoneaster from Kansu, China. 40730, "a 

 tall vigorous species, with rather large leaves and large, 

 dark-violet berries, found on rocky cliffs and ledges, 

 collected at an elevation of 6000 feet." 40734, "a very 

 small bush, crawling between stones and grass, at eleva- 

 tions between 6000 and 11000 feet, of value as a rockery 

 plant." 40735 and 40737, "medium sized shrubs, one with 

 small foliage and black berries, the other resembling 

 C. pyracantha, with bright red berries." 40736, "small, 

 with small, orange-colored berries and very small foliage, 

 found on stony mountain sides." (Meyer's introductions and 

 descriptions. ) 



Cudrania Java nensis Trecul. (Urticaceae. )40618. Cuttings 

 from the Bureau of Productive Industry, Formosa, from Mt . 

 Dai ton, near Taihoku. "Kwakwatsu-gayu, an evergreen shrub 

 of the family Urticaceae, of a vine-like nature, provided 

 with thorns on the stems, and found in the provinces of 

 Satsuma and Osumi. The barren and fertile flowers shoot 

 separately on distinct plants. It bears flowers in summer 

 and reddish yellow sweetish fruits in winter. They are 

 eaten fresh or preserved in sugar. The wood is used for 

 dyeing yellow." (Useful Plants of Japan, no. 213b.) 



Daphne blagayana Preyer . (Thymelaeaceae . )40613. Plants 

 from Chester, England. Purchased from Dicksons. "A dwarf, 

 evergreen shrub of spreading habit. Leaves smooth, 1 to 

 If inches long, aggregated in a tuft at the end of the 

 twig. Flowers creamy white, very fragrant, produced in 

 March and April, crowded in a head of 20 to 30 blossoms at 

 the end of the twig and about two inches across, consist- 

 ing of several umbels, subtended by thin greenish, silky 

 bracts. Fruit pinkish white, rarely seen in cultivation. 

 Native of the mountains of eastern Europe, discovered by 

 Count Blagay in 1837, introduced about 1875. This beauti- 

 ful and sweet-scented Daphne has perhaps nowhere been so 

 successfully cultivated as in the Glasnevin Botanic Gar- 

 dens. It is there planted on low mounds composed of 

 stones and loam from a granite district. The secret of 



