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123559. RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM . * (Ericaceae.) From India. Collected at Kodaikanal, 

 Palni Hills, Madras Presidency; by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. A scrubby 

 tree not over 25 feet high, with a trunk often 2 feet in diameter, growing on most 

 dry sunny slopes where no other trees grow. The pubescent leaves are oblong and about 

 4 inches long and 2 inches wide. It .-should tolerate high temperatures. The flowers 

 are crimson, sometimes spotted with bl-'^ck. For trial from Tenne.^see southward. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



115811. RHUS LANCEA. (Anacardiaceae . ) Sumac. From the Union of South Africa. 

 Presented by the McGregor Museum, Kimberley. Karree-boom. A small bushy tree with 

 gray bark and long-stemmed leaves with linear-lanceolate leaflets 4 to 6 inches long. 

 It is a valuable hardwood tree for mild regions of limited rainfall. Native to the 

 Cape of Good Hope. For trial in the warmer parts of the Southwest. (Chico, Calif.) 



130319. RHUS SP. From China. Collected at Atuntze (Hungpoh) , by T. T. Yu, with 

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

 Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Ma.ss. A vigorous plant with pinnate leaves composed 

 of 3 to 13 leaflets of the size and shape of elm leaves. The leaf rachis is reddish, 

 as are the young leaves. It may be of use where luxuriant foliage effects are desir- 

 able. For trial in the South. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



78107. SARCOCOCCA HOOKERIANA.* (Buxaceae.) From France. Purchased from E. Turbat& 

 Co., Orleans. A handsome evergreen shrub 6 to 8 feet high, of slow growth, native 

 to Afghanistan, with coriaceous lanceolate entire leaves 2 to 4 inches long, axillary 

 racemes of small whitish fragrant flowers, and subglobose black fruits, The plants 

 do best in cool, partly shaded positions. For trial in all but the coldest and warmest 

 parts of the country. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



126535. SENECIO SALIGNUS. ( Asteraceae . ) Collected near Patagonia, Arizona, and 

 presented by Fred Gibson, Director, Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum, Superior, 

 Arizona. A handsome well-branched evergreen shrub which attains a height of about 8 

 feet. The golden-yellow flowers, in large terminal cymes, are produced in midwinter. 

 For trial in the warmest parts of Florida and the Gulf coast and the Southwest. (Glenn 

 Dale. Md.) 



132796. SOPHORA CHRYSOPHYLLA . (Fabaceae.) From Hawaii. Presented by L. W. Bryan, 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Hilo. An attractive native 

 Hawaiian tree up to 30 feet high, with pinnate leaves with 13 to 20 obovate-oblong 

 obtuse leaflets one-half to 1 inch long, tawny or grayish pubescent beneath, less so 

 above, and pale-yellow flowers about an inch long, followed by 4-winged pods 4 to 6 

 inches long. For trial in southern Florida and southern California. (Chico, Calif.) 



122964. SPIRAEA CANESCFNS. (Rosaceae.) From India. Collected at Koli, Kulu, Punjab, 

 by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. A shrub, sometimes 12 feet high, with 

 long arching branches, small broad-oval to obovate leaves and rather small v/hite 

 flowers in dense corymbs 2 to 3 inches across. Native to the Himalayan region. 

 For trial in the South and on the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



129237. SPIRAEA SP . Collected at an altitude of about 10,000 feet on Mt. Omei, 

 Szechwan Province, and presented by the Lu-Shan Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Kiu- 

 kiang. A spirea with small 3-lobed leaves somewhat resembling S. trilobata . For 

 trial throughout the United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



