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along paths in small gardens and requires a shady situation. The plant endures light 

 frosts without injury. It has proved satisfactory as a pot plant only while small, 

 after having been grown under lath shade. New shoots that develop indoors grow tall 

 and spindly and are unattractive. For trial in the middle and lower South and in 

 southern California. (Savannah, Ga.) 



135036. ASTER ALTAICUS.* (Asteraceae . ) From Afghanistan. Collected at Chigzar, 

 by Walter KoslZ; Bureau of Plant Industry. A much-branched, very drought-resistant 

 perennial 2 feet high, with numerous lavender-rayed flower heads, 1\ inches across, 

 in August. The flowers are too scattered to be very showy but because of the season 

 of bloom and the plant characteristics, it may be of value for hybridizing. For trial 

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



140991. ASTER ALTAICUS.* From Iran (Persia). Collected at Shahmid, Khorassan, by 

 Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. Identical with the preceding (P. I. No. 

 136036) except that the leaves are larger and broader. For trial throughout the 

 United States. (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



132195. BEGONIA SP. (Begoniaceae . ) From Argentina. Collected at Iguassu Falls, 

 Misiones, by Dr. K. F. Baker and Dr. J. L. Collins, of the Experiment Station of the 

 Pineapple Producers' Cooperative Association, Honolulu, T. H. A fibrous-rooted plant 

 with glossy rich-green, oval to ovate, entire or slightly serrate leaves, pure white 

 flowers, and bracts below the flowers that become showy following the falling of the 

 petals. In the greenhouse the plants have grown very vigorously to a height of 2 to 

 2-5 feet. The plant and flowers somewhat resemble Begoni a semp erflorens . For trial 

 outdoors in the warmest parts of southern Florida and southern California and indoors 

 elsewhere. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



142241. BOEHWERIA MACROPHYLLA . (Urticaceae . ) From China. Collected by the Yunnan 

 Expedition of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology and presented by the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum, Cienfuegos, Cuba. A large shrub or small tree with opposite lanceolate 

 leaves 6 to 9 inches long, beautifully veined and, as grown in the greenhouse, of a 

 distinctive light-green color. The flowers are in clusters on long filamentous 

 spikes in the leaf axils. A fiber similar to ramie may be obtained from the stems. 

 Native to the tropical and subtropical Himalayas. For trial throughout the lov/er 

 South. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



137612. BOEHMERIA PLATYPHYLLA. From India. Presented by the Lloyd Botanic Garden, 

 Darjeeling. A large shrub or small tree with largely broadly-ovate leaves from 3 to 

 9 inches long. The tiny flowers are in knot-like clusters on long filamentous spikes, 

 which are occasionally branched. Mature plants are said to be rather attractive. 

 Native to the tropical and subtropical Himalayas, For trial throughout the lower 

 South. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



131057. BOLTONIA LAUTUREANA.* (Asteraceae.) From Manchuria. Collected at Harbin, 

 by B. V. Skvortzov. A herbaceous perennial with erect, branching stems not over 2 

 feet high, leathery lanceolate leaves and small panicles of pale-lavender flower 

 heads, about 1^ inches across, in late August. Besides its worth as an ornamental 

 it would undoubtedly be of value to breeders. Native to northeastern China. For 

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



