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110872. ASTER HOLOPHYLLUS. From the Soviet Union. Received from the Botanic 

 Garden, Samara. An annual or biennial, with oblong-linear puberulent leaves, and 

 small sky-blue flower heads. Native to the Amur River region, Siberia. For trial 

 in the Northern States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



67067. BAECKEA PLATYCEPHALA Myrtaceae. From South Australia. Presented by Edwin 

 Ashby, Blackwood. A wmall densely branched shrub, 1 or 2 feet high, with thick 

 leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, and small white flowers in the upper axils. 

 Native to V/estern Australia. For trial in southern California and southern Florida. 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



111813. BERGENIA SP. Rockfoil. Saxif ragaceae . From India. Received from H. A. 

 Lee, Simla. A perennial herb, in the young stage closely resembling Bergenia stracheyi 

 and perhaps a form of it. That species grows to about 1 foot high, with obovate 

 glabrous leaves, ciliate or crenate on the margin, and with pink to rose or yellow 

 flowers in small panicles appearing early in the spring. For trial in the upper South, 

 the milder parts of the Northern States, and on the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



102740. BETULA JAPONICA MANDSHURICA. Birch. From Manchuria. Obtained from Manshu 

 Nosan Shokai, Inc., Dairen. A white-barked birch up to 80 feet high with the leaves 

 often broadly wedge-shaped at the base. Native to Hopeh Province, China. For trial 

 in the upper South and in the milder parts of the Northern States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



78429. BRYOPHYLLUM MINIATUM. From Madagascar. Collected by Charles F. Swingle, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, and Dr. Henri Humbert, University of Algiers. An erect 

 slender fleshy plant 1 to 2 feet high, native to Madagascar. The smooth green oval- 

 obtuse leaves are up to 3 inches long, with petioles slightly pink and shallow 

 crenate sinuous margins. The small flowers, bright red. with fine brown spots, are in 

 a lax terminal panicle. For trial indoors only except in f restless localities. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



78427 and 101364. BRYOPHYLLUM SP.* From Madagascar, Collected by Charles F. 

 Swingle, Bureau of Plant Industry, and Dr. Henri Humbert, University of Algiers. 

 Received as Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi but the pendulous habit of the flowers and that 

 of sprouting from the crenations of the leaves indicate that the plant properly be- 

 longs in the genus Bryophyllum. A rather small succulent, about 10 inches high, with 

 crenate rounded-oval leaves an inch and a half long, bluish green, overcast with 

 purple, and small purplish flowers in a loose cluster terminating the slender stem. 

 Native to Madagascar. For trial indoors only except in f restless localities. (Glenn 

 Dale, Md. ) 



78428. BRYOPHYLLUM SP.* From Madagascar. Collected by Charles F, Swingle, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, and Dr. Henri Humbert, University of Algiers. Received as Kalan - 

 c hoe gastonis - bo nnieri but the pendulous habit of the flower with the stamens in- 

 serted at the base of the tube, and habit of sprouting from the crenations of the 

 leaves indicate that it properly belongs in the genus Bryophyllum. It is native to 

 Madagascar. During the nonblooming periods, this succulent is a low plant with a very 

 short stem and a rosette of light-green leaves, dotted with darker green. When about 

 to flower the stem elongates to a height of nearly 2 feet, bearing at its summit a 

 lax corymb of light-pink flowers For trial indoors only except in frostless lo- 

 calities. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



