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132628. EUCALYPTUS KAEMASTOMA. From Australia. Presented by F. H. Baker, Richmond, 

 Victoria. A large tree with smooth mottled bark and lanceolate falcate leathery 

 leaves. The inconspicuous flowers are followed by fruits one-quarter inch across. 

 The tree is said to thrive in poor sandy soil but not to be suited to dry interior 

 valleys. The timber is inferior. For trial in southern California and southern 

 Florida. (Chico, Calif.) 



124640. EUCALYPTUS PAUCIFLORA. From California. Presented by John McLaren, Super- 

 intendent, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. A high-mountain Australian tree, up to 

 100 feet high, with spreading branches, slender, somewhat pendulous twigs, and thick 

 ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate leaves, 4 to 8 inches long. The outer bark is decidu- 

 ous and the inner bark smooth and pale gray. The species has withstood a minimum 

 temperature of 19° F. in southern California and may endure much lower. It is said 

 to grow well in swampy lowlands. For trial in southern California and the warmer 

 parts of the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



132797. EUCALYPTUS RUBIDA. Candlebark gum. From Australia. Obtained from Percy 

 Murphy, "Grandview," Woy Woy, New South Wales. An alpine or subalpine tree, 30 to 

 60 feet high-, with smooth bark falling off in strips, found at altitudes of 1,000 to 

 5,000 feet in the cooler parts of Australia and in Tasmania. The narrow-lanceolate 

 thickish leaves are equally dull green above and below, and there are three white 

 flowers in solitary umbels. For trial in the milder parts of California and the 

 Southwest and in the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



114743. EURYA ACUMINATA. (Theaceae.) Collected in Szechwan Province, China, and 

 presented by the Sun Yat-Sen Tomb and Memorial Park Commission, Nanking. A tender 

 shrub up to 10 feet, with oblong-lanceolate leathery evergreen leaves of rich green 

 color. The plants are always densely leaved. For trial in the warmest parts of the 

 South and Southwest. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



77677. EX0CK0RDA GIRALDII. (Rosaceae.) Pearlbush. From France. Obtained from 

 Leon Chenault & Son, Orleans. A slender deciduous shrub 10 to 15 feet high, native 

 to northwestern China. The large pure-white flowers, in racemes terminating short 

 leafy shoots, appear in early spring. The exochordas are among the earliest plants 

 to leaf out in the spring and the bright green of the new growth is a welcome sight. 

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



73983. EX0CK0RDA K0R0LK0WI . Turkestan pearlbush. From the Soviet Union. Presented 

 by the Government Botanical Gardens, Nikita, Yalta, Crimea. A hardy upright slender- 

 stemmed shrub up to 13 feet high, with racemes of showy white flowers li inches in 

 diameter. Native to Central Asia. Like the preceding, it is one of the earliest 

 shrubs to leaf out in the spring. For trial in all but the warmest parts of the 

 country. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



111595. FICU3 ARCHERI. (Moraceae.) From Colombia. Collected at Granja, Department 

 de Caucaz Papayan, by W. A. Archer, Bureau of Plant Industry. U vill o. A large tree 

 with thick, lustrous, leathery, oblong-obovate to elliptic-obovate leaves 2| to 3i 

 inches long and red edible fruits about one-half inch in diameter. (Supply limited.) 

 For trial in the warmest parts of the Southwest and of the Gulf region. (Chico, 

 Calif.) 



