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nearly an inch across borne in small terminal racemes. The plant begins flowering 

 whila still small and branches dichotomously from the base of the panicles, continuing 

 to branch and bloom until frost. It withstands temperatures down to about 26° F. 

 Propagation is by seed or by soft wood cuttings taken in April. For trial in the 

 milder parts of California, the Southwest, and the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



105105. TRADESCANTIA VIRGINIANA.* (Commelinaceae . ) From England. Obtained from 

 Maurice Prichard & Sons Co., Ltd. Purewell G iant . A strong-growing variety which 

 reaches a height of about 18 inches. The flowers, of a medium mauve-blue, are rather 

 larger than with most varieties and are borne in great abundance in late May and early 

 June, and again in late summer under good conditions. For trial throughout the 

 United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



114809. TREMA VIRGATA. (Ulmaceae.) From China. Presented by the Botanic Garden at 

 Nanking. An evergreen small tree of rapid growth with glossy lanceolate celtis-like 

 leaves about 5 inches long. Vegetative propagation may be difficult unless softwood 

 cuttings are treated with a growth substance. For trial in the lower South, (Glenn 

 Dale, Md.) 



10C632. VTMINARIA DENUDATA. (Fabaceae.) Rush-broom. From Australia . Presented by 

 Edwin Ashby, "Wittunga," Blackwood, South Australia. An Australian shrub with rush- 

 like stems up to 20 feet high, long wiry pendulous branches, leaves reduced to fili- 

 form petioles 6 to 9 inches long, and terminal racemes of orange-yellow flowers. 

 (Supply very limited.) For trial in the warmest parts of the Southwest. (Chico, 

 Calif.) 



130431. VITEX SP.* (Verbenaceae . ) From China. Collected at Kuli, Lilang, by T. T. 

 Yu, with the Yunnan Expedition of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology and presented 

 by the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. Species of this genus are usually large 

 shrubs or small trees but there are some which grow into large trees. They may be 

 either deciduous or evergreen. Some have showy flowers, usually white or lavender. 

 The leaves of the present plants are opposite, digitately compound, and gray green. 

 For trial throughout the South. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



63629. XYL0SMA SENTICOSA. (Flacourtiaceae . ) From Canton, China. Collected by F. A. 

 McClure, Bureau of Plant Industry. A very ornamental and shapely large shrub or small 

 tree having dense glossy foliage. The species is dioecious, the pistillate plants 

 producing an abundance of small, dark-red fruits which are borne in short-stemmed 

 clusters along the branches. The plants here offered are staminate only and are of a 

 thornless strain. For trial in the warmest parts of California and the Gulf region. 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



134312. ZAMIA SP. (Cycadaceae . ) From Ecuador. Collected near Guayaquil, at the 

 Hacienda Jesus Maria, on a forested cobbled terrace, at an altitude of about 300 feet, 

 by Oscar Hcught, International Petroleum Co., Guayaquil, and presented through E. P. 

 Killip, United States National Museum. A cycad with a rather smooth light-gray trunk, 

 at maturity 2 to 2^ feet high and 6 to 8 inches in diameter. The pinnate leaves have 

 very spiny rachises and the margins of the pinnae bear spines about 1 to 1£ inches 

 apart. The seeds are especially showy, about 1| inches long, with a soft fleshy 

 bright-red outer seed coat. For trial only in the warmer parts of Florida and Cali- 

 fornia or under glass. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



