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118639. PRIMULA SP.* From India. Collected at an altitude of 9,000 feet, near a ' 

 spring at Burzil, Kashmir, by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. The plant 



reaches a height of 3 feet. The very attractive flowers are blue-purple or purple 



with a yellow eye, and are produced in heads 2 inches across. For trial in the {'^ 



Northern States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



118640. PRIMULA SP.='= From India. Collected at an altitude of 10,000 feet, near a 

 spring at Burzil, Kashmir, by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. This primula 

 grows to a height of 3 feet. The flowers are said to be white, tinged pink. For 

 trial in the upper South and in the Northern States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



61938. PTEROCARYA STENOPTERA.* ( Juglandaceae. ) Chinese wingnut. From China. Col- ' 



lected from the Bubbling Well Cemetery, a short distance from the grave of Frank N. 



Meyer, by P. H. Dorsett, Bureau of Plant Industry. A handsome ornamental tree up to 



60 feet high, with pinnate leaves 6 to 12 inches long, having oblong, acute leaflets 



2 to 4 inches long. The long pendulous catkins when the tree is in flower or fruit 



add to its attractiveness. For trial on the Pacific coast and in th3 Southern 



States. (Chico, Calif.) 



111373. PYRACANTHA CRENATO-SERRATA . Firethorn. (Malaceae.) From China. Received 

 from H. H. Chung, Wuchang, Hupeh Province. A spiny evergreen shrub up to 9 feet 

 high, with young branchlets rusty-pubescent, and elliptic to obovate-oblong leaves 

 1 to 2 inches long, lustrous dark green above and lighter beneath. The coral-red 

 fruits, a quarter of an inch across, are in dense corymbs. For trial in the southern 

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



109352. PYRACANTHA SP. From Turkey. Collected near Samsun by H. L. Westover and 

 C. R. Enlow, Bureau of Plant Industry. An unidentified pyracantha resembling P. 

 cocc ine a. It is a much branched shrub with dull gray-green, pubescent leaves, oblong 

 elliptic in shape, from 1 to 2 inches long. For trial in the Southern States. (Glenn 

 Dale, Md.) 



114733. RANDIA HENRYI.* (Rubiaceae.) From Szechwan Province, China. Presented by 

 the Botanic Garden at Nanking. A tender evergreen shrub or small tree, very attrac- 

 tive for its foliage. The opposite leathery lanceolate leaves are dark-green above, 

 but while young are coppery red. The few v/hite flowers, about an inch across, are 

 borne in nearly sessile cymes. For trial outdoors in the warmer parts of Florida and 

 California, or elsewhere under glass. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



112285. RHAMNUS DAVURICA. Dahuria buckthorn. From Manchuria. Collected at 



Khandagai by the Roerich Expedition. A large hardy spreading shrub or small tree, up 



to 30 feet high, with oblong leaves 2 to 4 inches long, greenish flowers, and black 



berries about three-eighths of an inch in diameter. Native to northeastern Asia. 



For trial in the northern United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) % 



111375. RHAMNUS SP. From China. Received from H. H. Chung, Wuchang, without des- 

 cription. A deciduous shrub with alternate leaves 2 to 3 inches long, in habit some- , 

 what resembling Rhamnus heterophylla. For trial in the Southern States and on the 

 Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



