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106523. DIGITALIS AMBIGUA. Foxglove. From Gabrove Monastery, Bulgaria. Collected 

 by Dr. E. A. Anderson of the Arnold Arboretum. A perennial or biennial species, 

 2 to 3 feet high, with ovate-lanceolate leaves, dovmy beneath; flowers yellowish, 

 marked with brown, smaller than those of the common foxglove. This introduction is 

 from the most northern range of the species. For trial in all but the warmest and 

 coldest parts of the United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



106524. DIGITALIS VIRIDIFLORA. Foxglove. From Bulgaria. Collected near Rila 

 Monastery, Rila Mountans, by Dr. E. A. Anderson, Balkan Expedition of the Arnold 

 Arboretum. A perennial species with ovate-lanceolate, denticulate, glandular- 

 canescent, membranous leaves and 4-foot stalks bearing very numerous, slender flov/ers 

 not over 2 inches long and of a clear greenish-yellow color. These plants are grown 

 from seed from the northern range of the species. For trial in all but the coldest 

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



103406. EHRETIA ELLIPTICA. Boraginaceae . From Texas. Presented by Peter H. Heinz, 

 Brownsville. Mexican names, anagua and man z ani llo . An ornamental shrub or tree up 

 to 50 feet high, native to v;estern Texas and northern Mexico. The thick oblong 

 leaves are 1 to 4 inches long and as rough as sandpaper. The small white fragrant 

 flowers are borne profusely and are followed by sweet edible yellow fruits about cl- 

 inch in diameter. The wood is used for tool handles and wheel spokes. In southern 

 Texas young trees are used for lawn planting. For trial in the southwest and the 

 Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



101915. ELEUTHERINE PALMIFOLIA. Iridaceae. From the Philippine Islands. Presented 

 by Dr. W. Dwight Pierce. A shade-loving tropical irislike plant with one or two 

 linear-lanceolate leaves 1 to 1^ feet long, and white flowers an inch across, with 

 bright yellow centers, borne on a scape 6 to 9 inches high. The flowers open in the 

 early evening, for only about an hour. Native to the American Tropics and naturalized 

 in the Philippines. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



115211. ERYTKRINA ACANTHOCARPA. From South Australia. Presented by J. Howard 

 Johnson, St. Peters. A rigid wide-spreading shrub, native to South Africa, 4 to 6 

 feet high, armed with sharp awl-shaped reflexed prickles. The leaves are made up of 

 3 elliptical leaflets i to 1 inch long and 1 to 2 inches broad; the scarlet flowers, 

 1 to 2 inches long, are in lateral and terminal racemes and are follov/ed by twisted 

 prickly pods. (Supply very limited.) For trial in central and southern Florida and 

 southern California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



111871. EUCALYPTUS CRUCIS . Myrtaceae. From Australia. Presented by F. H. Baker, 

 Richmond, Victoria. A small tree, 25 feet or less high, glaucous throughout, with 

 small thick ovate to lanceolate leaves about 1^ inches long. Native to Western 

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

 (Chico, Calif.) 



113765, EUCALYPTUS MICROTHECA. From Australia. Collected in Central Australia and 

 presented by the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, South Yarra. The tree prefers a ferrugin- 

 ous-gravelly soil, perfectly drained. It is reported to v/ithstand very high tem- 

 peratures in Central Australia and yet not to be affected by exceptionally severe 

 frosts (18° F.) in the south of France when many other eucalypts suffered. The 



