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142454. CENTAUREA JACEA.* ( Asteraceae . ) From Europe. Presented by Msrtin Bilon. 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. A hardy herbaceous perennial to 2 feet high, with leafy 

 panicles of light rosy-purple flower heads from mid-June until frost. The flower 

 heads are about 1|- inches across and are borne in considerable numbers. At Glenn 

 Dale there is a tendency for the flowering to he too scattered for good effect, but 

 there is some chance of a different reaction in other locations. For trial through- 

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



13174S. CESTRUM SP . (Solanaceae . ) From Mexico. Collected and presented by Mrs. 

 Natalie Balls, Oakfields, Knebworth, Herts, England. A shrub up to 2i feet high, of 

 stiff, upright, bushy habit, found growing in the shade of hedgerows and in bar- 

 rancas. Flowers scarlet, tubular, up to 1-^ inches long, in erect racemes. For trial 

 in the warmer parts of the Gulf region and in California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



138692. CHAMAEDOREA SP . Palm. From Guatemala, Collected at Alta Verapaz and Peten 

 by 0. F. Cook, Bureau of Plant Industry. A handsome slender palm, the canelike trunk 

 with joints 2 to 4 inches long, with glossy green, somewhat short-pinnate leaves 

 having 5 or 6 rather broad tapering pinnae on each side of the midrib. It is prob- 

 ably related to Chama edorea c oncol or . For trial under glass or in the warmest parts 

 of southern United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



130882. CHRYSALIDOCARPUS LUCUBENSIS. (Phoenicaceae . ) Beccari palm. From Puerto 

 Rico. Presented by the Agricultural Experiment Station, Mayaguez. A tall and very 

 beautiful palm, native to Madagascar, with a rather robust trunk with enlarged base, 

 elongate pinnate leaves composed of rigid swordlike segments up to 3 feet in length, 

 and obovate fruits about half an inch long. It is particularly a handsome palm when 

 about 10 or 12 feet high. For trial in the warmest localities of the Southwest and 

 the Gulf region and in conservatories elsewhere. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



135575. CLEMATIS BREVICAUDATA.* (Ranunculaceae . ) From Manchuria. Collected along 

 a mountain stream near Maoershan, E. Harbin, by B. V. Skvortzov. A vigorous climb- 

 ing vine, native to China and Manchuria, with bipinnate, coarsely toothed leaves. 

 The small white flowers, which come in late summer, are in loose cymes on slender 

 axillary pedicels. The achenes have rather short plumose styles, whence the specific 

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



140921. COLUTEA SP. (Fabaceae.) From Iran. Collected at Kataliyechinar, Khorassan, 

 by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. A well-formed bush of the steppe fringe, 

 up to 6 feet high, with rather large yellow flowers. It is thought to be fairly 

 hardy. For trial in the northern Gulf region and the Southwest. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



119223. COTONEASTER SP . (Malaceae.) From India. Collected at Kyelang, Lahul, by 

 Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. A vigorous deciduous shrub with gray-green 

 ovate-elliptic leaves about 3 inches long, margined with a white pubescence. The young 

 plants have made very rapid w'hip-like growths. For trial in the southern states and 

 on the Pacific Coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



122077. COTONEASTER SP . * From Tibet. Obtained at Darjeeling, India, by Walter 

 Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. Collected at an altitude of 13,000 feet. An ever- 

 green shrub with small rich-green leaves about i inch long, very closely spaced on 

 the upright branches. The branches are fairly freely produced, so that the plants are 



