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102909. OSBECKIA STELLATA. From India. Presented by the Curator. Lloyd Botanic 

 Garden, Darjeeling, through Dr. Ralph A. Fenton, Portland, Oregon. A tropical shrub 

 from 2 to 7 feet high, with reddish, 4-angled branchlets, and opposite, elliptic, 

 reddish-petioled leaves, bright green on the upper surface, reddish beneath, 2 to 6 

 inches long. The delicately beautiful lilac-rose flowers have 4 ovate ciliate 

 petals If inches long. Cuttings struck in the spring may be useful as summer bedding 

 plants in the North. For trial under glass or in the warmest parts of Florida and 

 California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



122114. OSBECKIA STELLATA.* Collected in India by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. Same description as for preceding (P. I. No. 102909). (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



122115. OSBECKIA SP.* Collected at Siliguri, Bengal, India, by Walter Koelz, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. An attractive shrub similar to 0. stellata except that the leaves 

 are slightly smaller. For trial under glass and in the warmest parts of Florida and 

 and California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



78151. PHILADELPHUS . (Hydrangeaceae. ) From France. Obtained from V. Lemoine & 

 Son, Nancy. A tlas . A handsome tall-growing hybrid sort with enormous fragrant flow- 

 ers over 2^ inches wide which have broad milk-white petals. For trial in all except 

 the warmest and coldest parts of the United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



78153. PHILADELPHUS.* From Nancy, France. Plants obtained from V. Lemoine & Son. 

 Enchantment . A hybrid variety bearing dense panicles of double white flowers of the 

 most striking appearance, on long erect branches. For trial in all but the hottest 

 parts of the United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



78154. PHILADELPHUS.* From Nancy, France. Obtained from V. Lemoine & Son. Inno- 

 cence. A hybrid variety with such an abundance of large single pure-white flowers, 

 borne on long arched branches, that the bush has the appearance of snowy sheaves of 

 blooms. For trial in all but the hottest parts of the United States. (Glenn Dale, 

 Md.) 



97948. PICEA KOYAMAI.* Spruce. From Japan. Presented by M. Tozawa, Director, 

 Forest Experiment Station, Keijo, Chosen. A narrowly pyramidal tree 60 feet high, 

 native to Japan and Chosen, with reddish-brown bloomy branches and radially spreading 

 leaves half an inch long, with two white bands above. The pale-brown cylindric cones 

 are 2 to 3 inches long. For trial in the Northern States and in the Appalachian 

 region of the South. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



118636. POLEMONIUM SP . From India. Collected at Gurez, Kashmir, by Walter Koelz, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. A very attractive herbaceous perennial growing to a 

 height of Zi feet. It does well in moist situations, either in the open or in shade. 

 The beautiful large purplish-blue flowers are in terminal clusters. For trial in all 

 but the warmest parts of the Southern States and on the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, 

 Md. ) 



116608. POLYGONUM MOLLE. From India. Presented by the Lloyd Botanic Garden, Dar- 

 jeeling. A sub-shrubby or herbaceous perennial, 4 to 5 feet high, covered in late 

 summer and fall with large thyrse-like terminal panicles of creamy-white flowers. 

 It is related to Pol ygo num polyst achy um. The large leaves are elliptic lanceolate. 

 A handsome plant for the border or for screen plantings. For trial throughout the 

 South and on tn- pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



