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d3:.33 axillary clusters, forming terminal leafy racemes. The plants are well branched 

 ar.d at ziturity aro about 6 fsct l:igl-. . r;;r trial i:. tlie lo'rter Northern States and 

 throughout the South. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



12S2-.6. f.'AESA SP.* (Myrsinaceae. ) From China. Collected on Mt . Omei, Szechwan 

 Province, and presented by the Lu-shan Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Lu-shan, 

 Kiukiang. A subtropical shrub with alternate, lanceolate, acuminate, creaate-serrate, 

 glossy leaves about 4 inches long. The species of Maesa have small white flowers in 

 axillary racemes or particles, rarely terminal. The present plant propagates readily 

 from soft or half-ripe..cd wood cuttings. F^r trial in the warmer parts of the Gulf 

 region and California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



142313. MAGNOLIA CORDATA. Fi'om Kentucky. Presented by Prof. Frank T. McFarland, 

 University of Kentucky, Lexington. A large shrub or small round-headed tree closely 

 related to M aRRolia acuminata. The leaves are 6 to 10 inches long, elliptic to ovate 

 or obovate. The canary-yellcff flowers appear in early spring, with the leaves, and 

 usually are terminal or axillary oa ths upper parts of the branchlets. The red 

 fruits are attractive in late summer. For trial in all but the coldest parts of the 

 United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



129739. I.:ETR0SILERCS TOMENTOSA . (Kyrtaceav. ) Iroutree. From New Zealand. Obtained 

 from the Botanic Garde.;, Christchuroh. A freely branching tree, native to Nav; Zeal- 

 and, up to 60 feet high and 4 feet in diameter, with coriaceous broadly ovate gray- 

 green leaves, 2 inches long, tcmentose beneath, and terminal cymes of flowers con- 

 spicuous for their long scarlet stamens as in the other bottlebrushes. For trial in 

 the moister localities of southern Californ"' • and in southern Florida. (Chico, Calif.) 



114974. IJCRAEA IRIDIOILES. (Iridaceae.) From Ceylon. Collected at Hakgala Garden - , 

 Ceylon, by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. A very attractive relative of the 

 iris with large clumps of irislike leaves with flov/er stalks to three feet. The 

 flowers have blue-purple standards and white fails, marked with yellow, resembling 

 Japanese iris in form. For trial in the lower South, (Chico, Calif.) 



142483. LiUSSAENDA SP. (Rubiacoae.) From China. Collected by the Yunnan Expedition 

 of the Fan lusmorial Institute of Biology and presented by the Atkins Institution of 

 the Arnold Arboretum, Cienfuegcs, Cuba. A shrub with large, entire, ovate-elliptical 

 leaves. Members of this genus are characterized by cymes of small yellow, white, c- 

 scarlet flowers, rather inconspicuous in themselves but uade quite showy by the largp 

 development of one calyx lobe of each flo'.ver into a large white or scarlet leaflike 

 organ. For trial only in the wariiest parts of the South and Southv/est and on the 

 Pacific Coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



13C156. MYRSINE SP. (Myrsinaceae.) From China. Collected at an altitude of about 

 7,500 feet, at Muli, Is. E. Muli, by T. T. Yu, with the Yunnan Expedition of the Fan 

 Memorial Institute of Biology, and presented by the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, 

 Mass. A woody plant with very attractive, glossy, rich-green foliage. The small 

 closely spaced, short-stemmed ovate leaves are about -i inch long. The present species 

 is a much-branched shrub which may be useful f;r :.iv.^_..£ -_ v,\ill as for specimen 

 plants. The flowers are rather inconspicuwus. F;, ;- t.-_.-l throughout the South and 

 Southwest. (Glenn Dale, I/id.) 



132901. NEOMARICA GRACILIS. (Marica gracilis). (Iridaceae.) From Madagascar. 

 Presented by Miss Bargyla Rateaver, Berkeley, California. A tropical iris-like plant 



