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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



102215 to 102238— Continued. 



A tropical African tree with pinnate 

 loaves up to 3 inches long, consisting 

 of 6 to 11 pairs of small oval leaflets. 

 The large showy flowers are in axillary 

 spiciform racemes. 



102225 to 102229. LIGUSTRUM spp. Olea- 

 ceae. Privet. 



102225. Ligustrum quihoui Carr. 



Quihou privet. 



A spreading shrub 6 to 8 feet high, 

 native to China. The somewhat leath- 

 ery leaves, 1 to 2 inches long, are 

 elliptic to oblong-ovate, and the small 

 white flowers are in long spikes which 

 are collected into panicles 4 to 8 

 inches long. 



102226. Ligustrum salicifolium Carr. 



A vigorous deciduous shrub with 

 opposite decussate leaves up to 6 

 inches long and 1 inch wide, and nu- 

 merous white flowers in long lax ra- 

 cemes with an aroma like that of 

 orange flowers. It is often frozen 

 back in the vicinity of Paris. 



102227. Ligustrum sp. 

 Originally from Yunnan, China. 



102228. Ligustrum sp. 

 No. 4114 MV. 



102229. Ligustrum sp. 



No. 5984 MV. 



102230 to 102233. Rosa spp. Rosaceae. 



Rose. 



102230. Rosa filipes Rehd. and Wils. 



Threadstalk rose. 



A shrub with slender prostrate stems 

 up to 15 feet long, native to western 

 China. The leases have 5 to 7 lance- 

 olate serrate leaflets 2 to 3 inches long, 

 and the fragrant white flowers, 1 inch 

 across, in large loose corymbs, are fol- 

 lowed by globose scarlet fruits about 

 one-half inch in diameter. 



102231. Rosa glutinosa Sibth. and 

 Smith. 



A dwarf prickly shrub native to 

 southwestern Europe and western Asia. 

 The densely glandular leaves have 5 to 

 7 elliptic to obovate leaflets about 1 

 inch long, and the small pink flowers 

 are followed by small globose fruits. 



102232. Rosa kochiana Koehne. 



A bushy rose about 3 feet high, pos- 

 sibly a hybrid of R. humilis X spinosis- 

 simq. The leaves are composed of 9 

 to ll glabrous simple lightly serrate 

 leaflets, and the deep-pink flowers, over 

 an inch in diameter, are in small 

 clusters. 



102233. Rosa mollissima Willd. 



A bushy rose about the size of R. 

 villosa, with bipinnate leaves composed 

 of oblong serrate, densely white hairy 

 leaflets. The. solitary flowers are deep 

 red [incarnata]. It is native to Asia 

 Minor. 



102234. Staphylea colchica coulom- 



bieri (Andre) Zabel. Staphyleaceae. 



Bladdernut. 



A vigorous form of Staphylea col- 

 chica, with larger acuminate leaflets. 



102215 to 102238— Continued. 



This is an upright shrub with five leaf- 

 lets, 6-inch panicles of white flowers, 

 and obovoid 2- and 3-lobed inflated 

 fruits. Native to the Caucasus region. 



102235 to 102238. Syringa spp. Olea- 

 ceae. Lilac. 



102235. Syringa japonica (Maxim.) 

 Decaisne. Japanese tree lilac. 



A tree up to 30 feet high, with a 

 short trunk and a round or ovoid 

 head, native to Japan. The broadly 

 ovate leaves, 2 to 5 inches long, are 

 bright green above and paler beneath, 

 and the yellowish flowers are in large 

 panicles a foot or more long. 



102236. Syringa luminifera Hort. 



A name for which a place of publi- 

 cation and a description have not been 

 found. 



102237. Syringa reflexa C. Schneid. 



Nodding lilac. 



A shrub 12 to 15 feet high, with 

 rough ovate leaves 3 to 6 inches long 

 and nearly cylindrical drooping pan- 

 icles crowded with small flowers which 

 are deep carmine in bud, fading as 

 the flowers open to pink outside and 

 white within. The flowers appear in 

 June. Native to central China. 



102238. Syringa sp. 



No. 3. de Max Sievers. 



102239 and 102240. Castanea mollis- 

 sima Blume. Fagaceae. 



Hairy chestnut. 



From China. Scions collected by Peter 

 Liu from an orchard near the village of 

 Chaochuangtzu, northeast of Peiping. 

 Received March 13, 1933. 



102239. Early-ripened chestnut. Said to 

 ripen the first week of September. 



102240. Late-ripened chestnut. Said to 

 ripen during the last week of Septem- 

 ber. 



102241 and 102242. 



Prom India. Seeds presented by V. N. 

 Ranganatha Rao, senior botanist, My- 

 sore State Department of Agriculture, 

 Bangalore City, southern India. Re- 

 ceived March 11. 1933. 



102241. Gossypium Nanking Meyen. 

 Malvaceae. Cotton. 



A Chinese long-staple cotton. 



For previous introduction see 92840. 



102242. Gossypium sp. Malvaceae. 



Cotton. 



A form which resembles G. heroaceum. 



102243. Cinchona succirubra Pavon. 

 Rnbiaceae. 



From Guatemala. Seeds presented by 

 Frederico Rodriguez. Bonito, >Finca Cape- 

 tillo, near Antigua, through G. H. Don- 

 ald, American consul general, Guatemala 

 City, at the request of Col. Victor E. 

 Ruehl. Caldwell, N.J. Received March 

 10. 1933. 



For previous introduction and descrip- 

 tion see 101661. 



