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117599. COMBRETUM SP . From China. Collected at Chang An, Yung Hsien, and presented 

 by A. N. Steward, University of Nanking. The different species of Combretum vary 

 exceedingly in their characteristics. In the young stage the plant of this uniden- 

 tified species is woody, erect, with attractive light green, obovate, shortly acu- 

 minate leaves up to 8 inches long. For trial in the Gulf region and in southern 

 California. (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



80394. COTONEASTER HARROVIANA. From India. Obtained from Hooghly District, Bengal, 

 through the American Consul at Calcutta. An evergreen shrub, native to Yunnan, 

 China, about 6 feet high, of a loose spreading habit, with small, shining, dark-green, 

 silky-tipped leaves, dense corymbs of white flowers, and small red fruits. For trial 

 in the middle and lower south and on the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



103209. COTONEASTER RACEMIFLORA SOONGORICA . From China. Collected between Muli 

 and Kulu, Szechwan, on open mountain slopes at 10,000 feet altitude, by Dr. J. F. 

 Rock, University of California Botanical Garden Expedition, and presented through 

 Dr. T. H. Goodspeed, Department of Botany. An erect shrub up to 4 feet high, with 

 slender, spreading branches. The leaves are oval and usually somewhat obtuse, and 

 the small white flowers are follov/ed by red fruits. (Supply very limited.) For 

 trial from central New York southward and west of the Rocky Mountains. (Glenn Dale, 

 Md.) 



103201. COTONEASTER SALICIFOLIA . Willowleaf cotoneaster. From southeastern Tibet. 

 Collected in the Sikitung Mts., Tsarung Province, at 11,000 feet altitude, by Dr. 

 J. F. Rock, agricultural explorer for the University of California Botanical Garden 

 Expedition, and presented through Dr. T. H. Goodspeed, Dept . of Botany, University 

 of California. An evergreen shrub up to 15 feet high, with slender spreading branches, 

 ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong acute leaves up to over an inch long, white 

 tomentose beneath, small white flowers, and bright-red roundish berries 1/5 inch in 

 diameter. Native to western China. (Supply very limited.) For trial in the milder 

 parts of the Northern States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



39585. CRATAEGUS LAUTA. From Jamaica Plain, Mass. Obtained from the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum. As originally described, from the parks of Boston where it v/as growing, 

 the plant was a spiny arborescent shrub. At Chico, Calif., it has grown to a tree 

 25 feet high, of rather upright habit and with a globular top. The dark-green ovate 

 serrate leaves are shallov/ly lobed and the abundant ovoid orange-red fruits, 3/4 inch 

 long, are borne in clusters of 5 to 10. For trial in the Northern States. (Chico, 

 Calif.) 



114813. CUDRANIA TRICUSPIDATA . From China. Received from Szechwan Province, through 

 the Botanic Garden, Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park, Nanking. A small to medium-sized 

 deciduous tree, related to the osage-orange, with thorny branches, elliptic-ovate 

 acuminate leaves, and reddish edible fruits up to 1 inch in diamter. The fruit 

 varies greatly in size and quality and only that of occasional trees is of valvie for 

 human food, (Supply limited.) For trial in the lower South and in the milder parts 

 of the Southwest. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



114036. CUPRESSUS BENTHAMII . Cypress. From Costa Rica. Collected at San Pedro 

 by W. A. Archer, Bureau of Plant Industry. A tree up to 70 feet high, with slender 

 horizontal branches and bright-green leaves, forming a pyramidal head. Native to 

 Mexico. For trial in southern California and the warmer parts of the Gulf region. 

 (Chico, Calif) 



