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102731. TRIPLARIS CUMINGIANA. Polygonaceae. From Cuba. Presented by the Atkins 
Institution of the Arnold Arboretum, Soledad, Cienfuegos. An ornamental tropical 
tree about 20 feet high, generally pyramidal in habit, which prefers moist situa- 
tions along the borders of lakes and streams. From February until the middle of 
April it is ablaze with red, produced by the bracts surrounding the capsules, and 
forms an exceedingly striking object in the landscape. The tree is native to Panama. 
For trial in extreme southern Florida and the most nearly frost-free situations in 
southern California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
80214 and 97822. TURRAEA OBTUSIFOLIA.* Meliaceae. From Los Angeles, Calif. Pre— 
sented by P. D. Barnhart. An attractive dwarf evergreen shrub 4 to 6 feet high 
which bears, between October and March, an abundance of white flowers having slender 
petals about an inch long. Native to southern Africa. For trial in southern Calif— 
Ornia and the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 
81909. VACCINIUM SP. From Japan. Collected at an altitude of 1600 feet on Moiwayama 
near Sapporo, Hokushu, by P. H. Dorsett and W. J. Morse, agricultural explorers, 
Bureau of Plant Industry. A deciduous shrub 12 to 18 inches high, with ovate acute 
leaves. The plant resembles Vaccinium hirtum in foliage characters. (Glenn Dale, 
Md.) 
100616. VACCINIUM FRAGILE. Blueberry. From China. Collected by the sixth Forrest 
expedition, 1930-32, to southwestern China, and presented by Maj. Lionel de Roths— 
child, London, England. A low shrub, native to western China, with small rigid, 
broadly oval leaves about one half inch long and small rose-purple flowers in dense 
thyrsoid racemes 1 to 2 inthes long, followed by small globose fruits. For trial 
in all except the warmest and coldest parts of the United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
100906. VACCINIUM FRAGILE. Blueberry. From China. Collected by the sixth Forrest 
expedition 1930-32, to southwestern China, and presented by Lord Aberconway, Bodant, 
Tal-y-cafn, N. Wales. Same description as for the preceding (P. I. No. 100616). 
(Glenn Dale, Md.) 
103508. VALLARIS HEYNEI. Apocynaceae. Burma vallaris. From India. Received from 
Walter Koelz, Bhadwar, Kangra, Punjab, through the University of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor. A climbing shrub with fragrant white flowers three-fourths of an inch wide, 
often cultivated as an ornamental in India, where it is native. For trial in south— 
ern Florida and southern California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
$7712. VERBENA BONARIENSIS, From England. Purchased from Maurice Pritchard & Sons, 
Riverslea Nurseries, Christchurch, Hants. A rough perennial, native to Brazil, with 
widely branching stalks 2 to 4 feet high, from rosettes of coarse basal leaves. The 
small bright-purple flowers are borne in flat-topped clusters about an inch across 
that often form six-inch heads. For trial throughout the United States, -— in the 
North as an annual. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
89357. VERONICA ANETIDA.* Scrophulariaceae. From New Zealand. Procured from 
Duncan & Davies, Ltd., New Plymouth. No place of publication of the name Veronica 
anetida has been found, The plant is an attractive small shrub, apparently a species 
of Hebe, branching at and above the base. The closely 4—ranked, sessile, dark-green 
leaves are ovate acute and one-third inch long. For trial in the southern states 
and on the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
