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Introductory statement 1 



Inventory 7 



Index of common and scientific names . 3 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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 Plate I. 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- 



in 



