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81203. STAPELIA HAKBURYANA. (Asclepiadaceae. ) From Ventimiglia, Italy. Presented 

 by S. W. McLsod Braggins, Superintendent, La Mortola. A freely branching succulent 

 with obtusely 4-angled dull-green stems 2 to 6 inches long. The flowers are 2 to 3 

 inches broad, rugose inside, greenish yellov/, evenly marked with small transverse 

 purplish brown spots and lines and edged with the same color. It is considered to be 

 a hybrid of some form of Stapelia variegata . For trial in the warmest parts of the 

 Southwest and of the Gulf region and under glass. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



23032. SYRINGA MEYERI . Meyer lilac. From China. Collected near Peiping by Frank 

 N. Meyer, Bureau of Plant Industry. A compact shrub up to 10 feet high, native to 

 northern China, with small oval-elliptic leaves and dense panicles of violet flowers, 

 which appear very early in the season. These plants are grafted on L igustrum walke ri, 

 a tender species. Because of tenderness of the root stock, the plants are offered 

 for trial only in the milder parts of the Northern States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



102237. SYRINGA REFLEXA. Nodding lilac. From France. Presented by Ecoles For- 

 estieres des Barres, Nogent-sur-Vernisson, Loiret. A shrub 12 to 16 feet high, with 

 rough ovate leaves 3 to 6 inches long, and nearly cylindrical drooping panicles 

 crowded with small flowers which are deep carmine in bud, fading as the flowers open 

 to pink outside and white within; the flowers appear in June. Native to central 

 China. These plants are grafted on Ligustrum w alke ri, a tender species. Because of 

 tenderness of the root stock, the plants are offered for trial only in the milder 

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



113778. TEMPLETONIA RETUSA. (Fabaceae.) Melbourne coralbush. From Australia. Re- 

 ceived from the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, South Yarra. A tall shrub with angular 

 glaucous branchlets, native to Australia. The simple leathery broadly ovate leaves 

 are 1 inch long, and the axillary red or white flowers, 1 inch long, are solitary or 

 in clusters of 2 or 3. In southern California this plant flowers in the y;inter 

 (Supply very limited.) For trial in southern Florida and southern California. 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



114193. TRICYRTIS FORMOSANA. (Melanthiaceae . ) Toad-lily. From Japan. Obtained 

 from K. Wada, Numazu-shi. An herbaceous perennial plant with short creeping rhizomes, 

 and erect, simple, leafy flexuous stems to 10 inches high. The leaves are alternate, 

 lanceolate, and hirsute. The flowers are borne terminally and in the axils of the 

 upper leaves, in few flowered loose corymbs in late summer. They are more than an 

 inch long, of an unusual and pleasing blend of red-and-blue-purple, with dots of 

 darker purple on the inner surface of the perianth. A very attractive garden plant, 

 for trial throughout the South and the milder parts of the Northern States. (Glenn 

 Dale, Md.) 



95678. TRICYRTIS HIRTA.* Hairy toad-lily. From the Netherlands. Obtained from 

 C. G. Van Tubergen (Ltd.), Haarlem. An attractive perennial to 3 feet high, in habit 

 suggesting our solomon-seal but covered with dov/ny hairs. The cordate-lanceolate 

 leaves are conspicuously veined and clasp the stem, and the creamy-white lilylike 

 terminal and axillary flowers are much speckled with warm lavender purple and appear 

 late in the season. The plant thrives in the shade, in soil with a liberal quantity 

 of leaf compost and some coarse sand. Where seed does not ripen before frost, cut- 

 tings taken in early fall may be rooted. It is native to Japan. For trial in all 

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



