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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



72453 to 72570— Continued. 



72517. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6832. A creeping plant with scarlet 

 flowers, forming fair-sized mats on rocks and 

 steep talus slopes in very exposed situations, 

 at an altitude of 11,000 feet. 



72518. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6833. A bold tree 30 to 40 feet high, 

 growing at altitudes between 10,000 and 11 ,000 

 feet in Abies forest, becoming more compact 

 and smaller on open slopes. It is easily recog- 

 nized by its irregularly angular branching 

 and smooth shining tawny trunks, with pep- 

 ery bark hanging in tatters from the under 

 surface when horizontal. The flowers are 

 pink, with five purple pit glands at the base 

 and beadlike strings of darker spots. 



72519. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6834. A rather small thin sparingly 

 branched shrub scattered on steep sheltered 

 rocky faces in dense rhododendron scrub, at 

 an altitude of 11,000 feet. The branches are 

 virgate, the leaves smoke gray, and the bright 

 rose-purple flowers are in nodding trusses. 



72520. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6848. A small epiphytic undershrub 

 growing at altitudes between 9,000 and 10,000 

 feet. The loose trusses contain three to five 

 glistening pale-yellow flowers through which 

 shines a delicate network of veins. 



72521. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6854. A medium-sized bushy shrub 

 growing in thickets on steep faces, on the 

 sheltered side of the valley, at an altitude of 

 10,000 feet. The trunk is ascending and 

 rarely erect. The flowers are in nodding 

 trusses of about five, the light-orange corolla 

 rimmed and streaked with brick red giving a 

 general effect of tawny orange. 



72522. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6855. A small tree with horizontal- 

 ascending trunk, branching freely above and 

 bearing large leaves at the ends of shoots 

 which are shaggy with the persistent bud 

 scales of several years. It grows at an altitude 

 of 10,000 feet, only in the tanglewood of 

 precipitous broken rock faces, where water 

 drips continuously and everything is moss 

 bound. The bright-red foliage bud scales 

 are very striking when the leaves are breaking 

 in June. 



72523. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6856. A slim tree scattered here and 

 there on steep forested slopes with No. 6818 

 [No. 72514], in half tanglewood and half 

 Abies and rhododendron forests, at an alti- 

 tude of 10,000 feet. The flowers, in large 

 trusses, are pinkish purple splashed with 

 dusky purple at the base. 



72524. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6868. A stout tangled bush forming 

 dense thickets on exposed alpine slopes 

 from the uoper limit of Abies forest upward, 

 at altitudes between 11,000 and 12,000 feet. 

 The leaves are rounded and glaucous, and the 

 flowers are a delicate shade of sulphur, usually 

 brick red in bud, ultimately retaining only 

 a bright crimson-purple flash at the base. 



72525. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6869. A shrub 3 to 5 feet high, with 

 usually an ascending habit, growing in dense 

 thickets on precipitous alpine slopes, at 

 altitudes between 11,000 and 12,000 feet. The 

 leaves are leathery and not glaucous, and the 

 flowers, four to six in a truss, are pure white 

 with five small crimson honey spots at the 

 base. Sometimes the corolla is finely pep- 

 pered with crimson or purple spots. 



72453 to 72570— Continued. 



72526. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6903. A small bushy undershrub, 

 forming tuffets on the steep scrub-clad slopes, 

 at altitudes between 11,000 and 12,000 feet. 

 The leaves are pale green above, and the 

 flowers are bright purple with darker spots. 



72527. Rhododendron sp. 



No. G923. Cherry brandy. A stout thick- 

 set bush 8 to 10 feet high, growing at an alti- 

 tude of 11.000 feet on the sheltered side of the 

 valley, in thickets or on the edge of the Abies 

 forest, but not inside where the Faiconeri 

 rhododendron is found. The buds are car- 

 mine, and the corolla is creamy white with 

 a broad cherry-red band around the sum- 

 mit, including the lobes, and at the base 

 there are five dusky purple pit glands. 

 Sometimes the flowers are cherry red all 

 through. There are six flowers in a truss. 



72528. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6924. A small bushy undershrub 1 to 

 3 feet high, growing on steep sheltered slopes, 

 in the general rhododendron shrub, at alti- 

 tudes between 11,000 and 12,000 feet. The 

 flowers are in loose corymbose trusses of six 

 or eight, rather small, and plum purple with 

 darker spots. They are very showy only 

 when the sunlight shines through the flowers, 

 when they glow a deep wine red. 



72529. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6930. A bush 6 feet high growing in 

 the dips of alpine, turf slopes at altitudes 

 between 12,000 and 13,000 feet. The flowers 

 are bright sulphur yellow with a purple flash 

 at the base. They are larger and darker than 

 No. 6868 [No. 72524], and the leaves are not so 

 rounded. 



72530. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6953. A shrub 10 to 12 feet high, with 

 an ascending trunk, forming thickets on steep 

 sheltered slopes at an altitude of 12,000 feet. 

 The flowers in large tight trusses are white or 

 pink with a flash of crimson at the base. 



72531. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6954. A small gnarled shrub with 

 interlacing knobby branches, forming tangle- 

 ments 2 or 3 feet deep on broken sheltered 

 slopes at an altitude of 12,000 feet. The 

 flowers are white with an extensive pattern 

 of crimson spots on the upper half. 



72532. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6955. Scarlet letter. A plant forming 

 wide flat tanglements, not 2 feet deep, and 

 paved with the rosetted leaves, on steep 

 broken sheltered faces, at an altitude of 12,000 

 feet. The flowers, in large trusses, are of the 

 most glowing scarlet. 



72533. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6960. A twiggy undershrub, forming 

 stout 1-foot brooms, growing socially or mixed 

 with other species among gneiss bowlders on 

 broken slopes, or on steep alpine moorland 

 slopes, at altitudes between 12,000 and 13,000 

 feet. The leaves are a beautiful bronze below, 

 with silver scales above, and the fragrant 

 flowers are violet with purple styles. 



72534. Rhododendron sp. 



No. 6961. Pink baby. A minute tufted 

 undershrub, about 3 inches high, carrying 

 solitary or paired flowers of a delicate shell 

 pink, hoisted above crowded leaves on long 

 crimson stalks, and when in fruit.these exceed 

 2 inches. This plant is found on steep rather 

 bare gravellv chutes, limestone or gneiss, at 

 an altitude of 12,000 feet. 



