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102237. SYRINGA REFLEXA. Nodding lilac. From France. Presented by Ecoles Forest- 

 ieres dss Barres, Nogent— sur-Vernisson, Loiret. A shrub 12 to 16 feet high, with 

 rough ovate leaves 3 to 6 inches long, and nearly cylindrical drooping panicles 

 crowded with small flowers which are deep carmine in bud, fading as the flowers open 

 to pink outside and white within; the flov/ers appear in June. Native to central 

 China. These plants are grafted on Ligustrum amurense . For trial in all but the 

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



S4512. TAMARIX CHINENSIS . * Tamarisk. From the Soviet Union. Collected on salty 

 lands along the Amu-Darya, in southeastern Turkistan by H. L. Westover, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. A shrub or small tree up to 15 feet high, with slender spreading or 

 drooping branches and bluish-green leaves. The flowers of this species, in large 

 loose panicles, are. reported ordinarily to be pink, but in the present form they are 

 said to be of a beautiful purple. The plant is believed to be worthy of testing 

 under a wide variety of conditions, especially in serai-arid regions in saline soils. 

 It is easily propagated by fresh seed but v/ith difficulty from cuttings. For trial 

 in all but the warmest and coldest parts of the United States. .- (Ghido,-- Calif;,) 



113778. TEMPLETONIA RETUSA. Melbourne coralbush. From Australia. Received from 

 the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, South Yarra. A tall leguminous shrub with angular 

 sulcate glaucous branchlets, native to Australia. The simple leathery broadly ovate 

 leaves are 1 inch long, and the axillary red or white flowers, 1 inch long, are sol- 

 itary or in clusters of 2 or 3. For trial in southern California and southern Flor- 

 ida. (Chico, Calif.) 



95678. TRICYRTIS HIRTA.* Hairy toad-lily. Liliaceae. From the Netherlands. Ob- 

 tained from C. G. Van Tubergen (Ltd.), Haarlem. An attractive perennial to 3 feet 

 high, in habit suggesting our Solomon-seal but covered with downy hairs. The cordate- 

 lanceolate leaves are conspicuously veined and clasp the ste.m, and the creamy-white 

 lilylike axillary flowers are much speckled with warm lavender purple and appear late 

 in the season. The plant thrives in the shade, in soil with a liberal quantity of 

 leaf compost and some coarse sand. Where seed does not ripen before frost, cuttings 

 taken in early fall may be rooted. It is native to Japan. For trial in th^ .Southern 

 States and on the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



101207. URCEOLINA MINIATA. Amaryllidaceae . From Peru. Presented by Dr. Paul G. 

 Ledig, Huancayo Magnetic Observatory, Carnegia Institution of Washington, D. C. A 

 bulbous perennial, native to the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. The solid scape, 1 foot 

 high, bears 2 to 6 urn-shaped orange-red flowers 2 inches long, after which appear 

 the narrowly ovate leaves a foot long. (Supply very limited.) For trial outside in 

 California and the Gulf region and as a tender summer-flowering bulb elsewhere. (Glenn 

 Dale. Md. ) 



106534 and 108777. VERBASCUM LYCHNITIS . 7^hite mullein. From Bulgaria. Collected 

 in the Rila Mountains by Dr. E. A. Anderson, Balkan Expedition of the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum. A biennial herb, growing to about 3 feet high, forming a basal rosette of 

 tomentose leaves, green above and slightly hoary beneath. Flowers small, yellow or 

 white, in panicled spikes. Plants grown from seed from the northern range of the 

 species. For trial in all but the v/armest and coldest parts of the United States. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



