
          attractive foliage and quantities of berries which are first green, 
then cream-colored, then red, and finally, when ripe, almost black. The 
foliage is light green and very glossy, and the growth compact. It may 
prove of value as an ornamental in the Southern States and on the Pacific 
Coast. Young plants grown at Washington have attracted attention 
because of their decorative character. Worthy of trial as a pot plant 
for house culture.

56315. INDIGOFERA PENDULA. From Yunnan, China. Collected by J. F. 
Rock, Agricultural Explorer. An ornamental leguminous shrub 10 to 15 
feet high, with long racemes of bluish purple flowers. Native on the 
Likiang Snow Range at altitudes of 10,000 to 11,000 feet.

56811. IRIS sp. From Yunnan, China. Collected by J. F. Rock, Agricultural Explorer. A large and handsome flower of purplish blue color, 
found at altitudes of about 9,000 feet on the crater of the extinct, 
volcano Tayinshan. It may prove useful to iris breeders, as well as 
being in itself an interesting and attractive species.

50662. JACQUINIA GRACILIS. From Guatemala. Collected by Wilson 
Fcpenoe , Agricultural Explorer. A small tree from the hot dry region of 
eastern Guatemala, where it is called duruche. It has stiff, dark-green 
leaves terminating in sharp spines, and tears an abundance of small fragrant yellow flowers. For trial as a hedge and ornamental plant in 
California and Florida.

56091. JUGLANS REGIA. Walnut. From Yunnan, China. Collected by 
J. F. Rock, Agricultural Explorer. The walnut grows to great stature 
on the hills and slopes of Taipingpu, at an altitude of about 8,300 
feet. The nuts, though of the same species known in the United States 
as the "English walnut," are very thick-shelled and difficult to break, 
and are gathered by the Chinese for the sake of their oil. This introduction 
is of interest mainly to those engaged in the development of 
new walnuts through breeding.

55484. JUNIPERUS PROCERA. East African Cedar. Presented by Prof. 
Charles Sprague Sargent, director of the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica 
Plain, Mass. This tree, which Professor Sargent considers the handsomest 
of all junipers, is native to the mountainous regions of eastern 
tropical Africa, where it sometimes attains a height of 150 feet. 
It has a pyramidal head with upright or spreading, slender branches, 
and a sturdy trunk. The foliage is bluish, as are also the berries. 
It should be tested as an ornamental in the southern United States.

56316. KETELEERIA sp. From Yunnan, China. Collected by J. F. Rock, 
Agricultural Explorer. A handsome coniferous tree 50 feet high, with 
light-green foliage and long oblong cones, found on the Sungkow Pass 
of the Hoching Range, at 11,000 feet altitude. This genus of the pine 
family is rare in cultivation in the United States where it should be 
tested in mild-wintered regions.

54549. KOPSIA ARBOREA. Presented by C. T. Simpson, Little River, 
Florida. Java is the native home of this handsome large shrub or small

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