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222139 to 222176— Continued 



222140. Alangium chinense (Lour.) Rehd. Cornaceae. 



Presented by E. A. Menninger, Stuart. A tree up to 60 feet high with 

 variable foliage and clusters of small, whitish, fragrant flowers. Capable 

 of rapid growth. Native to southern China. 



222141. Alangium salvifolium (L.f.) Wangerin. 



Presented by E. A. Menninger, Stuart. A shrub or small tree with soft 

 gray pubescence. The small yellow flowers are in small axillary clusters. 

 Native to northwestern India. 



222142. Aphelandra sinclairiana Nees. Acanthaceae. 



A shrub 6-15 feet high with obovate entire leaves, vivid orange-red 

 bracts and pale or purplish red tubular flowers. Native to Panama where 

 it grows in the wet forests of the Atlantic side. 



222143. Ardisia acuminata Willd. Myrsinaceae. 



From E. A. Menninger, Stuart. An evergreen shrub up to 7 feet high 

 with oblong acuminate leaves 4-5 inches long; small white flowers in axil- 

 lary clusters. Native to the Guianas. 



222144. Brachychiton acerifolium F. Muell. Sterculiaceae. 



From the Forestry Department, Kenya. A tree to 35 feet high with 

 dark-green, shining, maple-like leaves 6—10 inches wide. The flowers are 

 scarlet, bell-shaped and hang from the tree in large clusters. Native to 

 Australia. 



222145. Brunfelsia latifolia (Pohl) Benth. Solanaceae. 



From E. A. Menninger, Stuart. Dwarf tree with slender spreading 

 branches and elliptic leaves 2-4 inches long, glabrous above. Flowers are 

 borne in terminal clusters or short axillary few-flowered cymes, pale violet 

 fading to white, and sweet scented. Native to tropical America. 



222146. Callistemon salignus (J. E. Smith) Sweet. Myrtaceae. 



A tall shrub or small tree to 40 feet high with distinctly penninerved, 

 lanceolate leaves 1-3 inches long and small flowers in spikes 1-2 inches long, 

 with bright-yellow stamens usually not more than % inch. Native to 

 Australia. 



222147. Cassia angulata Vog. Caesalpiniaceae. 



A Brazilian tree with compound leaves and yellow flowers in axillary 

 racemes. 



222148. Cassia bicapsularis L. 



A tropical American evergreen shrub 4-7 feet high with pinnate leaves 

 and yellow flowers. From Brazil. 



222149. Cassia hookeriana Gill. 



A shrub with pinnate leaves composed of 8 pairs of oblong leaflets, and 

 small racemes of yellow flowers. Native to Chile. 



222150. Cassia Montana Heyne. 



A shrub with slender glabrous branchlets, 20-30 leaflets, membranous 

 and firm. Flowers in dense axillary and terminal corymbs. Native to India. 



222151. Cleistanthus collinus (Roxb.) Benth. & Hook. Euphorbiaceae. 



A small tree with very hard wood and spreading, rigid, twiggy, smooth 

 or pustulate, branches. Flowers small, 3-6 per cluster. Native to India. 



