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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



102752 to 102787— Continued. 



inches long and persist for 3 or 4 years. 

 The ovoid-conical cones, 4 to 7 inches 

 long, have greatly thickened 4- to 6- 

 lobed scales with a heak in the center. 

 As a young plant, this pine is attractive 

 for its long drooping pale-green foliage. 



102772. POLYGALA ARILLATA Buch.-Ham. 



Polygalaceae. 



An erect shrub 4 to 8 feet high, native 

 to southeastern Asia. The lanceolate to 

 ovate leaves are 4 to 6 inches long, and 

 the irregular flowers, one-half inch long, 

 in drooping panicles, have red-purple 

 sepals and yellow petals. The broadly 

 reniform fleshy capsules are nearly an 

 inch across. 



102773. Prunus napaulensis (Seringe) 

 Steud. Amygdalaceae. 



A small tree, native to the temperate 

 Himalayas up to 10,000 feet altitude. 

 The lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 

 crenate-serrate leaves, 4 to 6 inches 

 long, are glaucous beneath, and the white 

 flowers, in dense racemes, are followed 

 by globose-ovoid blue fruits nearly 1 inch 

 long. 



102774. Pueraria peduncdlaris (Benth.) 

 R. Giah. Fabaceae. 



A vigorous shrub with slender twining 

 branches clothed with short deflexed 

 deciduous hairs. The membranous green 

 leaflets are gray with a thick down. The 

 reddish pea-shaped flowers, with a deep- 

 purple-tipped keel, are in moderately 

 close racemes 6 to 12 inches long. 

 Native to the temperate regions of the 

 Himalayas. 



102775. Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) 

 Benth. Fabaceae. 



A twining, semishrubby plant densely 

 covered with brown hairs. The leaflets 

 are green above and densely matted be- 

 neath with gray hairs, and the reddish 

 flowers are borne in long-stemmed ra- 

 cemes. Native to tropical regions of the 

 Himalayas. 



102776. Pyrularia edulis (Wall.) DC. 

 Santalaceae. 



A medium-sized thorny tree native to 

 the southern slopes of the Himalayas up 

 to an altitude of 5,000 feet. The leaves 

 are 3 to 7 inches long, rather fleshy, 

 oblong with entire margins. The stam- 

 inate flowers are in racemes, and the 

 pistillate flowers are solitary, producing 

 edible pear-shaped drupes 2 inches long. 



For previous introduction see 94079. 



102777 to 102780. Rhododendron spp. 

 Ericaceae. 



102777. Rhododendron camelliaeflo- 

 rum Hook. f. 



An often epiphytic evergreen shrub 

 2 to 6 feet high with densely scaly 

 branchlets, native to the Himalayas 

 between 9,000 and 11,000 feet altitude. 

 The narrowly oblong, obtusely mucro- 

 nate leaves, 2 to 4 inches long, are 

 glabrous and reticulate above and 

 densely scaly beneath. The pink- 

 tinged white flowers, an inch across, 

 are fleshy, with a short broad tube and 

 a wide-spreading limb. 



102778. Rhododendron dalhousiae 

 Hook. f. 



A large epiphytic evergreen shrub 

 native to the Sikkim Himalayas at 



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altitudes of 6,000 to 8,000 feet. The 

 oblanceolate to obovate, obtuse leaves, 

 2 to 6 inches long, are scaly and 

 papillose beneath. The funnel-shaped 

 fragrant white flowers, tinged with 

 rose outside, are 3 to 4 inches long 

 with five broad lobes. 



102779. Rhododendron grande Wight. 



A tree up to 30 feet high, native to 

 the Sikkim Himalayas between 8,000 

 and 10,000 feet altitude. The elliptic 

 to oblanceolate leaves, 6 to 12 inches 

 long, are shining deep green above 

 and silvery white beneath. The mor- 

 tar-shaped flowers, 2 to 3 inches long, 

 are pale rose in the bud, opening 

 creamy white with basal purple 

 blotches, and are borne in large 

 rounded clusters of 20 to 25. 



102780. Rhododendron vaccinioides 

 Hook. f. 



A low shrub 1 to 3 feet high, with 

 densely warty glandular branchlets, 

 native to the Sikkim Himalayas be- 

 tween 6,000 and 12,000 feet altitude. 

 The scattered spatulate emarginate 

 leaves are less than 1 inch long, and 

 the lilac-pink or pink-tinged white 

 campanulate flowers are one-third of 

 an inch long. 



102781 Rosa macrophylla Lindl. Rosa- 

 ceae. Bigleaf rose. 



A large, nearly thornless shrub, native 

 to the temperate Himalayas up to 10,000 

 feet altitude. The compound leaves have 

 9 to 11 oblong to ovate leaflets 1 to 2 

 inches long, pubescent beneath, and the 

 red flowers, 2 inches across, in clusters 

 of 1 to 3, are followed by oblong-ovoid 

 red fruits which are sometimes 2 inches 

 long. 



102782. Tetrastigma serrulatum 

 (Roxb.) Planch. {Vitis capreolata 

 Don. ) . Vitaceae. 



A glabrous woody vine with slender 

 wiry stems, native to India. The palm- 

 ately compound leaves have 3 to 5 lan- 

 ceolate to obovate bristly serrate leaf- 

 lets 1 to 3 inches long, and the axillary 

 or terminal cymes of small green flowers 

 are followed by globose black fruits about 

 one-fourth of an inch in diameter. 



102783 to 102785. Vaccinium spp. Vac- 

 ciniaceae. 



102783. Vaccinium dunalianum Wight. 



A large erect shrub with angular 

 branchlets, native to India up to an 

 altitude of 8,000 feet. The leathery 

 oblong-lanceolate long-pointed leaves, 4 

 inches long, have entire recurved mar- 

 gins, and the small ovoid-conic flowers, 

 in axillary racemes 3 inches long, are 

 followed by globose berries one-sixth of 

 an inch in diameter. 



102784. VACCINIUM GLAUCO-ALBUM 



Hook. f. 



A shrub native to the Sikkim Him- 

 alayas between 9,000 and 10,000 feet 

 altitude. The leathery oblong-ovate 

 leaves, 2 to 3 inches long, are mucro- 

 nate-serrate and are white beneath. 

 The small pink-tinged white flowers, in 

 racemes 3 inches long, are subtended by 

 large white bracts which persist until 

 the fruits are ripe. 



