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17737. SALIX MATSUDANA UMBRACULIFERA. Willow. From China. Collected by the late 
F. N. Meyer, agricultural explorer, Bureau of Plant Industry. A handsome hardy 
Chinese willow with a dense, flattened-globular crown. The branches are long, slen— 
der, and tinged with red toward the tips. Probably hardy throughout the northern 
United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
103328. SILENE SP. Catchfly. From southwestern China and Tibet. Collected on 
the Mekong River, at 7,000 feet altitude, by Dr. Joseph F. Rock, agricultural ex-— 
plorer, and presented by Dr. T. H. Goodspeed, Department of botany, University of 
California, Berkeley. An alpine herb with narrowly ovate leaves about 5/8 inch wide, 
acute at the tip and attenuated into a very long petiole at the base. For trial in 
the South and especially on the Pacific Coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
103329. SILENE SP. Catchfly. From southwestern China. Collected at 11,000 feet 
altitude by Dr. Joseph F. Rock, agricultural explorer, and presented by Dr. T. H. 
Goodspeed, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. An 
alpine herb with purple flowers and opposite, oblong-ovate leaves = inch or more 
wide, acute at the tip, the lowermost on the stem attenuated into a rather long 
petiole. For trial in the South and especially on the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale,Md.) 
21967. SOPHORA DAVIDII. From Chianfu, Shantung, China. Obtained by the late F. N. 
Meyer, agricultural explorer. A spiny leguminous shrub growing 6 to 10 feet tall, 
bearing small pinnate leaves, loaded with small violet—tinted whitish flowers in spring. 
Chinese name, Kuei tsi ching. It may be used as a hedge plant and is somewhat drought 
resistant. It requires pruning when grown as an ornamental in the south. For trial 
in all except the warmest and coldest parts of the country. (Chico, Calif.) 
84237. SPIRAEA SP. From southwestern China. Collected by Dr. J. F. Rock, National 
Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. A deciduous shrub about 5 feet high, with oval 
rounded dull-green leaves up to = inch long, crenate-serrate above the middle, and 
white flowers. In foliage characters this suggests S. canescens. Native to south— 
western China. For trial in the southern states and on the Pacific coast. (Glenn 
Dale, Md.) 
100606. SPIRAEA SP. From China. Obtained by the sixth Forrest expedition to south— 
western China, and presented by Maj. Lionel de Rothschild, London, England. A de— 
ciduous shrub, native to southwestern China, with reddish, angled stems and rounded— 
obovate, dull~green leaves up to 5/8 inch long. Said to be related to Spiraea 
arcuata, which is a small stout shrub with dense corymbs of small red flowers. For 
trial in the Gulf region and on the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
102963. SPIRAEA SP.* From Nanking, China. Collected in Lu Shan, Kiangsi Province, 
and presented by A. N. Steward, University of Nanking. a deciduous shrub with dull 
gray-green, rounded-ovate, incised-serrate, usually 3-lobed leaves sometimes nearly 
2 inches long. Resembl2s S. trilobata, in foliage characters. Native to southeastern 
China. For trial in the Gulf region and in southern California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
