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100141 to 100226— Continued. 



or purplish flowers are in dense corymbs. Native 

 to southwestern China. 



100204. F. 30843. 100205. F. 30877. 



100206. Paeoxia sp. Ranunculaceae. Peony. 

 F. 30998. A plant closely related to P. lutea. 



100207. Paeoxia sp. Ranunculaceae. Peony 



G.F. 39. A plant closely related to P. potamnii* 



10C208. Podophyllum sp. Berberidaceae. 



Mayapple. 



F. 30804. A plant closely related to P. auran- 

 iiaca. 



' 100209 to 100212. Polygonum spp. Polygona- 

 ceae. Fleecefiower. 



100209. Polygonum emodi Meisn. 



F. 31013. A trailing and creeping perennial 

 herb native to the Himalayas at altitudes be- 

 tween 8,000 and 11,000 feet in India. The 

 branches are 6 to 10 inches long, with rigid 

 linear-lanceolate leaves 1 to 2 inches long and 

 short ascending branches bearing racemes of 

 small red flowers. 



100210. Polygonum forrestii Diels. 



F. 30860. A low herbaceous plant with a long 

 creeping rootstock, found on hillsides in Yun- 

 nan. It is from 2 to 4 inches high, with white 

 or cream-white flowers. 



100211. Polygonum sphaerostachyum Meisn. 



F. 30795. A perennial herb 6 to 12 inches high, 

 native to the Himalayas at an altitude of 15,000 

 feet in India and Tibet. The long-petioled 

 radicle leaves are linear -lanceolate with crenu- 

 late margins, and small drooping crimson 

 flowers are borne in solitary erect cylindrical 

 or capitate spikes. 



100212. Polygonum sp. 

 F. 30835. 



100213. Convolvulus sp. Convolvulaceae. 



F. 3W47. 



100214 to 100218. Potentilla spp. Rosaceae 



Cinquefoil. 



100214. Potentilla articulata Franch. 



F. 30755. A low alpine perennial with a thick 

 rhizome, digitately trifoliolate hairy pale-green 

 leaves only half an inch long, and light-yellow 

 flowers half an inch across, on stems 2 to 3 inches 

 high. Native to southwestern China. 



100215. Potextilla coriaxdrifolia D. Don. 



F. 30782. Variety dumosa; a bushy variety 

 of P. coriandrifolia which is a tufted herb 4 

 inches in diameter, found in rock crevices and 

 open thin turf at Bhutan, India, at 13,000 feet 

 altitude. The white flowers have dark-red 

 centers. 



100216. Potextilla eriocarpa Wall. 



F. 30821. A perennial herb with a stout root- 

 stock from which arise branches 4 to 10 inches 

 long, densely clothed with imbricating woolly 

 stipular sheaths. From the tips of these 

 branches grow the slender suberect flowering 

 stems bearing thin three-lobed and incised 

 leaves about 1 inch long and solitary yellow 

 flowers 1 to 2 inches across. It is native to 

 northern India. 



For previous introduction see 93924. 



100217. Potextilla sauxdersiaxa Royle. 

 F. 30773. 



100141 to 100226— Continued. 



For previous introduction and description 

 see 99974. 



100218. Potentilla stexophylla (Franch.) 

 Diels. 



F. 30836. A plant 3 to 4 inches high, with a 

 thick rhizome, pinnate leaves 2 or 3 inches long, 

 and orange-yellow flowers on scapes 4 inches 

 high. Native to Yunnan. 



100219 to 100222. Saxifraga spp. Saxifragaceae. 



Saxifrage. 



100219. Saxifraga sp. 

 F. 30837. 



100220. Saxifraga sp. 

 F. 30839. 



100221. Saxifraga sp. 



F. 30840. A form closely related to 8. mori- 

 tana. 



100222. Saxifraga sp. 

 F. 30921. 



100223. Solms-laubachia pulcherrima Musch- 

 ler. Brassicaceae. 



G.F. 37. A dwarf alpine 2 [to 4 inches high, with 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate leaves an inch long, 

 appressed to the stem, and bright turquoise- 

 blue aromatic flowers 2 inches or more long on 

 one-flowered scapes. Native to southwestern 

 China. 



100224. Solms-laubachia sp. Brassicaceae. 

 F. 30803. 



100225. Spenceria ramalana Trimen. Rosa- 



G.F. 49. A free-flowering and attractive her- 

 baceous perennial about a foot high, with erect 

 or ascending stems, covered with silvery hairs. 

 The stem leaves are reduced to 1 or 2 pairs of 

 narrowly oval leaflets, and the golden or red- 

 yellow flowers are in stiff open racemes. Native 

 to dry upland Ipastures^of western Szechwan and 

 Yunnan. 



100226. Trollhjs sp. Ranunculaceae. 



Globeflower. 



G.F. 70. A form closely related to T. patulus. 



100227. Bambtjsa multiplex (Lour.) 

 Raeusch. Poaceae. Hedge bamboo. 



From Florida. Plants presented by Harold Mowry, 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Gainesville- 

 Received June 21, 1932. 



Plants from a bamboo hedge at the Gainesville 

 station, grown under the name Arundinaria nilida. 

 The hedge is kept pruned to a height of about 4^ 

 feet, but the culms probably would grow eventually 

 to 15 feet or more if permitted. The new culms 

 appear early in May. 



100228 to 100230. Cinchona spp. 

 Rubiaceae. 



From Jamaica, West Indies. Cuttings presented 

 by Col. Victor E. Ruehl, Caldwell, N.J. Re- 

 ceived June 18, 1932. 



100228. Cinchona sp. 

 No. 1. Ruehl. 



100229. Cinchona sp. 

 No. 2. Jamaica. 



100230. Cinchona sp. 

 No. 3. Jamaica. 





