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104867 to 104879— Continued. 



104867. ACANTHOPANAX EVODIAEFOLIUM 



Franch. Araliaceae. 



An unarmed shrub 10 feet high, with 

 trifoliolate leaves crowded at the ends of 

 the branchlets. The small lanceolate 

 acuminate leaflets are 3 to 4 inches long. 

 Native to Yunnan, China. 



For previous introduction see 93871. 



104868. Carpinus laxiflora d a v i d i i 

 Franch. Betulaceae. 



A Japanese tree up to 50 feet high, 

 with ovate or elliptic, doubly serrate, 

 long-acuminate, stiff leaves 2 to 3 inches 

 long and inconspicuous flowers. 



monosperma Roxb. 



104869. Celastrus 

 Celastraceae. 



A shrubby climber with glossy green, 

 oblong-obovate leaves 3 to 5 inches long 

 and numerous small pale greenish-yellow 

 flowers, followed by smooth, oblong cap- 

 sules enclosing solitary seeds covered with 

 an orange-colored ariel. Native to India. 



104870. Diospyros glaucifolia Metcalf. 

 Diospyraceae. 



A tree up to 50 feet high, with ovate 

 or broad-eliiptic, dull-green leaves about 



5 inches long and small globose smooth 

 fruits. Native to southeastern China. 



104871. Erythrina arborescens Roxb. 

 Fabaceae. Coraltree. 



When covered with its bright scarlet 

 flowers, this small tree is very attractive 

 and is often planted as an ornamental. 

 There are but few prickles on its 

 branches, and the thin greenish leaves are 

 Often a foot in width. The strongly 

 curved pods are about an inch wide and 



6 to 9 inches long. The tree is native to 

 the central and eastern Himalayas up to 

 7,000 feet altitude. 



For previous introduction see 68334. 



104872. Maackia tendifolia (Hemsl.) 

 Hand.-Mazz. Fabaceae. 



A tender shrub with five-foliolate mem- 

 branous leaves 6 to 8 inches long and 

 white flowers, less than an inch long, in 

 graceful racemes. Native to southeastern 

 China. 



104873. Manglietia fordiana Oliv. 

 noliaceae. 



Mag- 



A tender evergreen tree about 25 feet 

 high, closely allied to the magnolias. The 

 stiff, leathery, oblanceolate leaves are 4 

 to 6 inches long, and the solitary terminal 

 white flowers are about 4 inches across. 

 Native to Hong Kong. 



104874. Ormosia sp. Fabaceae. 



The ormosias are handsome subtropical 

 trees with pinnately compound leaves, 

 showy flowers in large racemes, and red 

 or red and black seeds. 



104875. SlNOJACKIA XYLOCARPA Hu. Sty- 



racaceae. 



A small tree closely allied to the sty- 

 raxes, from Kiangsu, China. The leaves 

 are membranous, obovate, cuneate, about 

 3 inches long, and the showy white pendu- 

 lous flowers, one-half inch long, are in 

 numerous axillary cymes, covering the 

 tree in late April. 



104876. Styrax sp. Styracaceae. 



104877. Vaccinium sp. Vacciniaceae. 



104867 to 104879— Continued. 



104878. (Undetermined.) 

 No. 20. 



104879. (Undetermined.) 

 No. 21. 



104880. Citrus medica L. Rutaceae. 



Citron. 



From New York. Seeds presented by Dr. 

 A. Reich. Received March 26, 1934. 



Pome citron. A lemonlike fruit native to 

 Palestine and Syria. Tne essential oil from 

 the skin has a very fine odor. 



104881. Soja max (L.) Piper. Faba- 

 ceae. Soybean. 



From China. Seeds presented by Dr. Sheo 

 Wang, University of Nanking, Nanking, 

 through W. J. Morse, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. Received March 27, 1934. 



Nanksoy. A medium-sized, glossy, yellow 

 bean with a brown hilum. It resembles 

 quite closely in seed characters the Nanking. 

 The variety was developed by Dr. Wang 

 from a native Chinese variety in the vicinity 

 of Nanking. In field tests it has excelled 

 other varieties in seed yield by as much as 

 45 percent. 



104882 to 104898. 



From Czechoslovakia. Seeds presented by 

 Prof. Adolf Kutfn, Horti Praefectus, 

 Tabor. Received March 26, 1934. 



104882 to 104887. Allium spp. 

 ceae. 



Lilia- 



104882. Allium baicalense Willd. 



An allium with flat linear leaves and 

 lilac flowers in semiglobose heads. Na- 

 tive to the Lake Baikal region, Siberia. 



104883. Allium fallax Schult. f. 



An Austrian allium, 5 to 10 inches 

 high, with linear leaves and lilac-pur- 

 ple flowers in a hemispherical head. 



For previous introduction see 66427. 



104884. Allium kochii Lange. 



An allium native to Denmark, with 

 strap-shaped or almost terete leaves and 

 kermisine-red flowers in a dense head, 

 with very few bulbels in the inflores- 

 cence. 



LEDEBOUEIANUM 



104885. Allium 

 Schult. f. 



A stout-stemmed allium 1 to 2 feet 

 high, native to the Altai region in Si- 

 beria. The linear leaves are terete, and 

 the rosy-pink flowers are in dense hemi- 

 spherical umbels about 1 inch in 

 diameter. 



104886. Allium ophioscordon G. Don. 



Bulbs of an allium very closely allied 

 to A. sativum, with a strongly curved 

 stem sometimes 3 feet high and having 

 whitish or greenish flowers. The bul- 

 bels of the inflorescence are often 

 nearly one-half inch in diameter. 



104887. Allium tulipaefolium Ledeb. 



A Siberian allium with oblong acute 

 leaves 8 inches long and white or pink- 

 ish flowers in small Uemispherical 

 umbels. 



