mint-like fragrance. The light purple-magenta flowers, in a dense compound-terminal 

 pedunculate raceme, are borne throughout the summer. Their effect is greatly enhanced 

 by the persistent calyces of almost the same tone of magenta purple which make older 

 plants, with clumps of stems, especially effective throughout the last half of the 

 season. For trial in all but the coldest parts of the country. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



21963. ALBIZZIA KALKORA . (Mimosaceae . ) From China. Collected near Boshan, Shan- 

 tung, by F. N. Meyer, Bureau of Plant Industry. An ornamental tree up to 30 feet 

 high, with bipinnate leaves with oblong leaflets % to 1£ inches long and cream- 

 colored flower heads. The tree has proved hardy at Asheville, N. C. For trial from 

 southern Virginia to the Gulf and on the Pacific coast. (Savannah, Ga.) 



138691. ALBIZZIA KALKORA. From North Carolina. Presented by Wm, A. Knight, Bilt- 

 more, from a tree originally sent out by the Bureau of Plant Industry. Same descrip- 

 tion as for the preceding (P. I. No. 21969). (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



136347. ALBIZZIA SP. From South Australia. Collected at Milang and presented by 

 J. Howard Johnson, St. Peters. A shrub or small tree 10 to 12 feet high, with yellow 

 flower heads up to 3 inches long by 1£ inches in diameter. It was found growing on a 

 reclaimed swamp in which the soil is said to be very saline and to be subject to 

 overflow at times. The seeds, which are reported sometimes to be eaten by the 

 aborigines, are said when broken and moistened to give off an offensive odor. For 

 trial in southern California and the milder parts of the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



129184. ALNU3 SP. (Betulaceae . ) From China. Presented by the Lu-Shan Arboretum 

 and Botanic Garden, Lu Shan, Kiukiang. The seedlings have attractive, glossy, elmlike 

 leaves but the mature habit of the plant is unknown. For trial in all but the warmest 

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



135790. AMORPHA BRACHYCARPA. (Fabaceae.) From Massachusetts. Obtained from F. W. 

 Schumacher, Boston. A slender erect shrub 2 to 3 feet high, somewhat like Amorpha 

 H3_£?_, native to Missouri. The pinnate leaves with crowded small leaflets are rather 

 numerous. The small bright violet-blue flowers are in dense spikelike racemes ar- 

 ranged like panicles terminating the stems. It gives promise as one of the more 

 attractive members of the genus. (Supply limited.) For trial throughout the United 

 States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



122063. AMORPHOFHALLUS BULBIFER . (Araceae.) From India. Collected near the Rangit 

 River, Darjeeling District, at an altitude of 2,000 feet, by Walter Koelz, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. A summer-growing aroid with one or two large bright-green leaves 

 on terete, conspicuously mottled petiole 2 or 3 feet long. The blade is more or 

 less dichotomously decompound with long narrow lobes, in the axils of which large 

 globose cormels are formed. The adult corm attains a diameter of several inches. 

 For luxuriant tropical effects this is an unuasually desirable plant. For trial 

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



101289. AMPHICOME ARGUTA. (Bignoniaceae . ) From New Zealand. Obtained from A. 

 Wilkinson, Tauranga. A low herbaceous perennial, not over 3 feet high, native to 

 northern India. The compound leaves are made up of 5 to 9 deeply serrate lanceolate 

 leaflets 2 inches long and the rose-colored funnel-shaped flowers, 1 inch long, are 



