﻿50 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



47629 to 47830— Continued. 



47708. Loniceea mackantha (D. Don) Spreng. Caprifoliacese. 



Honeysuckle. 



A shrubby honeysuckle, from temperate parts of the Himalayas, with 



rather large white flowers which fade to yellow. It is closely allied to 



L. japonica. (Adapted from Hooker, Flora of British India, vol. 3, p. 10.) 



47709. Lonicera tomentella Hook. f. and Thorns. Caprifoliacese. 



Honeysuckle. 

 This white-flowered honeysuckle is a native of the interior valleys of 

 the mountain region of northeastern India, where it forms a shrub 10 

 to 12 feet high. The leaves are dark dull green, and the paired flowers 

 hang from the axils of the leaves. The blue-black berries are about the 

 size of a pea. (Adapted from Curtis' 's Botanical Magazine, pi. 6^96.) 



47710. Luctjlia geatissima (Wall.) Sweet. Rubiaceae. 



A tree or a spreading shrub, native to the temperate Himalayas, where 

 it attains a height of 10 to 16 feet. It is a very attractive ornamental, 

 because of the gorgeous rounded mass of pink or rose-colored flowers. 

 It is said to make an excellent table plant when grown in a pot and 

 treated somewhat similarly to a gardenia. (Adapted from American 

 Gardening, vol. 28, p. 22, and Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horti- 

 culture, vol. Jf, p. 1918.) 



47711. Maesa chisia D. Don. Myrsinacese. 



An evergreen tree, up to 30 feet in height, or sometimes a shrub, native 

 to the Himalayas from Nepal to Bhutan at altitudes of 2,000 to 6,000 

 feet. The white flowers appear in compound racemes. (Adapted from 

 Johnson's Gardeners' Dictionary, p. 487, and Hooker, Flora of British 

 India, vol. 3, p. 509.) 



47712. Maesa indica (Roxb.) Wall. Myrsinaceee. 



An evergreen shrub or small tree, common throughout India at alti- 

 tudes of 6,000 feet or less. The small, white berries are used as food 

 in Nepal, and the leaves are used in Kanara to poison fish. (Adapted 

 from Watt, Dictionary of the Economic Products of India, vol. 5, p. 107, 

 and Brandis, Forest Flora of India, p. 283.) 



47713. Maesa maceophylla Wall. Myrsinacese. 



A large shrub or small tree, native to the eastern Himalayas. When 

 the bark is cut a resinous substance exudes. The wood is light brown 

 and moderately hard. (Adapted from Watt, Dictionary of the Economic 

 Products of India, vol. 5, p. 107.) 



47714 to 47718. Magnolia campbellii Hook. f. and Thorns. Magnoliaceae. 



Magnolia. 



A beautiful, deciduous magnolia from the Himalayas, where it ascends 

 to 8,000 feet above sea level. It reaches a height of 80 feet, has very 

 dark bark, large elliptical dark-green leaves, and white to purple flowers 

 10 inches in diameter. (Adapted from Curtis 's Botanical Magazine, 

 pi. 6793.) 



For illustrations of this tree and of a single flower, see Plates III 

 and IV. 



47714. Purple flowered. 47717. Light-red flowered. 



47715. Pink flowered. 47718. Dark-red flowered. 



47716. White flowered. 



