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90298 to 90316— Continued. 



90304 to 90310. Ceanothus delilianus 

 Spacb. Rhamnaceae. 



90304. Croix du 8ud. A deep slaty 

 blue. 



90305. Elegans., A bright mauve rose. 



90306. Esperanto. Large panicles of 

 gray-lilac flowers. 



90307. Reverie. Broad clusters of iron- 

 blue flowers. 



90308. Saphir. Of deepest steel-blue 

 color. 



90309. Topaze. As hardy as Gloire de 

 Versailles, with deep-blue flowers. 



90310. Victor Jouin. 

 dwarf. 



A dark blue 



90311 to 90313. Clematis grata Wall. 

 Ranunculaceae. Himalayan clematis. 



90311. Campanile. A handsome vari- 

 ety, carrying tall panicles of hya- 

 cinth-shaped light azure-blue flow- 

 ers. 



90312. C6te d'Azur. A variety with 

 glossy foliage, as in C. tubulosa, and 

 panicles of deep-azure flowers which 

 form small pyramids along all the 

 branches. 



90313. Oiseau bleu. A variety with 

 small foliage ; the upper part of the 

 clump is wholly covered with very 

 light and elegant forked panicles of 

 azure flowers which fade to pale 

 pink lilac. When the flowers first 

 open they are like hyacinths, but 

 later become starlike in form. 



90314. JASMINDM GRACILLIMUM Hook. f. 



Oleaceae. Slender jasmine. 



A climbing or scrambling hairy shrub 

 from Borneo. The opposite, narrow- 

 ovate leaves are bright green above and 

 pubescent beneath, and the fragrant 

 white flowers, 1 inch across, are in large 

 dense hanging heads. 



90315. Jasmindm nitiddm Skan. Olea- 

 ceae. Jasmine. 



A shrub with slender branchlets, el- 

 liptical-lanceolate leaves 3 to 4 inches 

 long, paler beneath, and few-flowered 

 cymes of fragrant white flowers 1 inch 

 long. It is native to the Admiralty Is- 

 lands. 



90316. Syringa sweginzowii Koehne and 

 Ling. Oleaceae. Chengtu lilac. 



Variety albida. A hybrid between 8. 

 sweginzowii superba and 8. wilsonU 

 which develops tall slender dark-bronze 

 stems and, in May, bears a profusion of 

 rather large long-tubed very sweet- 

 scented flowers with reflexed lobes of deli- 

 cate pale pink to white. 



90317 and 90318. Gossypitjm spp. Mal- 

 vaceae. Cotton. 



From Chosen and Manchuria. Seeds col- 

 lected by P. H. Dorsett and W. J. Morse, 

 agricultural explorers, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. Received November 22, 1930. 



90317. Gossypium sp. 



No. 6352. From a small field near 

 Ritsuri, Chosen, September 23, 1930. 



90318. Gossypium sp. 



No. 6424. From a small field near 

 Nanzankai village, Manchuria, October 

 10, 1930. Said to be a native variety. 



12017&— 32 4 



90319 to 90324. 



From Mexico. Seeds collected by Dr. Don- 

 ald Reddick, Cornell University, in collab- 

 oration with Paul Russell and Max Souvi- 

 ron, Bureau of Plant Industry. Received 

 November 24, 1930. 



90319. Parosela seemanni (S. Wats.) 

 Rose. Fabaceae. 



No. 279. Obtained in an agave field at 

 Zontecomate, Hidalgo, November 7, 1930. 

 A diffusely branched shrub with smooth 

 gray bark, leaves 1 to 2 feet long, com- 

 posed of 5 to 11 leaflets, and loose ra- 

 cemes of pinkish-purple flowers terminat- 

 ing the leafy branchlets. 



90320. Cologania affinis Mart, and Gal, 



Fabaceae. 



No. 320. Collected over a mile south- 

 east of Amecameca, State of Mexico, No- 

 vember 10, 1930. An evergreen climber 

 growing on rich loam at an altitude of 

 7,800 feet. 



90321. Lupinus sp. Fabaceae. Lupine, 



No. 316. Collected southeast of Ame- 

 cameca, State of Mexico, November 10, 

 1930. A plant 1 to 5 feet high, with pur- 

 ple flowers, found growing in cornfields at 

 8,000 feet altitude. 



90322. MONNINA SCHLECHTENDALIANA D. 



Dietr. Polygalaceae. 



No. 201a. From west of Tres Marias, 

 Morelos, about 32 miles from Mexico City, 

 October 29, 1930. A plant 6 to 9 feet 

 high, with small deep-purple flowers and 

 black berries. 



90323. Pentstemon campandlatus 

 (Cav.) Willd. Scrophulariaceae. 



Beardtongue. 



No. 285. Collected southeast of Real 

 del Monte. Hidalgo, November 6, 1930. A 

 plant with purple flowers and seeding 

 abundantly, found in open woods on the 

 mountain side. 



90324. Sedum moranense H. B. K. Cras- 

 sulaceae. Stonecrop, 



No. 283. Collected southeast of Real 

 del Monte, Hidalgo, November 6, 1930. A 

 fleshy plant found in rocky crevices on a 

 bare peak. 



90325 to 90329. Phleum pkatense L. 

 Poaceae. Timothy. 



From Norway. Seeds presented by Haakon 

 Foss, Director, Loken Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, Loken, Valdres. Re- 

 ceived November 26, 1930. 



90325. No. 1. Seed from a number of se- 

 lected plants. 



90326. No. 2. A local mountain strain, 

 tested and grown for several years at 

 this station. 



90327. No. 3. A local mountain strain. 



90328. No. 4. Finnish. A very hardy 

 and long-lived strain which has been 

 grown for several years at the station. 



). No. 5. A strain developed at the 

 station. 



to 90333. Phleum pratense L. 

 Poaceae. Timothy. 



From Finland." Seeds presented by Otto 

 Walle, Plant Breeding Station, Tammis- 

 to. Received November 26, 1930. 

 Seeds taken from single plants growing 



in the trial field. 



