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1291S6. BETULA SP . From China. Collected at an altitude of about 10.000 feet in 

 Tien Chuan Ksien, Szechwan Province, and presented by the Lu-Shan Arboretum and Bo- 

 tanic Garden, Kiukiang. Same description as for preceding (P. I. No. 129184). 

 (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



123962. BETULA SP . From China. Collected at Atuntze (Dokerla) , by T. T. Yu, with 

 the Yunnan Expedition of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, and presented by the 

 Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. Same description as for P. I. No. 129194. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



129965. BETULA SP . From China. Collected at an elevation of about 10,000 feet, 

 near Tehgch, Chungtien, Yunnan, by T. T. Yu, with the Yunnan Expedition of the Fan 

 Memorial Institute of Biology, and presented by the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, 

 Mass. On seedling plants, the leaves of this birch are roughly triangular in shape, 

 measuring about 4 inches long and 3 inches wide. On many leaves a pair of small 

 lateral lobes is developed. For trial in the northern half of the country. (Glenn 

 Dale, Kd.) 



129966. BETULA SP. From China. Collected at an elevation of about 12,000 feet 

 near Wati, Muli, Yunnan, by T. T. Yu, with the Yunnan Expedition of the Fan Memorial 

 Institute of Biology, and presented by the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 

 Same description as for the preceding (P. I. No. 129965). (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



129197. BUDDLEIA SP. (Loganiaceae . ) From China. Collected at an elevation of about 

 7,000 feet near Tien Chuan Hsien, and presented by the Lu-Shan Arboretum and Botanic 

 Garden, Kiukiang. The buddleias are mostly shrubs or small trees and are grown 

 chiefly for their flowers, produced in profusion in showy panicles. For trial in the 

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



118761. CALLISTEMON CITRINUS. Bottlebrush. From California. A selection mads at 

 the Plant Introduction Garden, Chico, California, from second-generation seedlings 

 of a plant grown in New South Wales as Callistemon "hortensia". The present .plant 

 is a shrub 5 to 6 feet high, with a profusion of flowers with long, handsome, very 

 dark-red stamens, the flowers being arranged along the leafy stems in the familiar 

 bottlebrush form. It is hardier than most other callistemcns, having been uninjured 

 by a temperature of 24° F. For trial in the milder parts of California and the 

 Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



101202. CALOTKAMNUS LONGISSIMUS. From Australia. Presented by Edwin Ashby, Black- 

 wood, South Australia. A low spreading evergreen shrub with softly pubescent, corky 

 branches. The leaves are terete, from 6 to 12 inches long, glabrous and dark green. 

 The small flowers embedded in the swollen corky stems have long brilliant stamens. 

 It has proved tolerant of high temperatures at Chico, California, but the plants 

 froze to the ground at a temperature of 12° F. For trial in the warmer parts, of 

 California and the Southwest. (Chico, Calif.) 



125136. CARMICHAELIA GPxANDIFLORA . (Fabaceae.) From New Zealand. Obtained from 

 Mrs. R. T. Richards, Canterbury. An erect or spreading evergreen shrub 2 to 8 feet 

 high, resembling the broom, to which it is related. The branches and crowded branch- 

 lets are more or less compressed, deeply grooved, and green. The leaves are numerous. 



