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80935. CORTARIA JAPONICA.* Japanese coriaria. From Japan. Collected by P. H. 
Dorsett and W. J. Morse, agricultural explorer, Bureau of Plant Industry. A shrub 
With bright-green, opposite leaves and an abundance of bright-red fruits about the 
size of small cherries. When fully ripe the fruits are very dark red or purple. The 
flowers are said to ke yellow and the plant poisonous to cows. For trial in the 
upper south and on the Pacific coast. (Bell, Md.) 
767350. COTONEASTER ALDENHAMENSIS. Malaceae. From Elstree, Herts, England. Planis 
from seeds presented by the late Hon. Vicary Gibbs, Aldenham House Gardens. An up— 
right decidious cotoneaster with gracefuoly arching branches and narrowly oval acuie 
leaves, deep dull green above and paler beneath. It bears numerous clusters of 
large bright-red berries. The original plant was possibly a chance hybrid, of 
unknown parentage, but the young seedlings appear to be much alike. The specific 
name aldenhamensis is merely horticultural, there having been no botanical descrip- 
tion of the shrub published. For trial in California and in the southern states 
except southern Florida. (Bell, Md.) 

67550. COTONEASTER GLAUCOPHYLLA.* Collected in Sumatra by the Allison V. Armour 
Expedition. A shrub native to Western China, with elliptic to eliiptic-oblong leaves 
1 to 2 inches long, glaucous beneath. The fruit is obovoid and about one-fifth or 
an inch long. The specimen plant found in Sumatra was 10 feet high and aps 
not well adapted to its. environment. This species is allied t oton 
For trial in the southern half of the United States. (Chico, Calif.) 
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56304. COTONEASTER PROSTRATA.* From China. Collected by J. F. Rock, agricultural 
explorer. An evergreen shrub up to 12 feet high, with long arching stems, oval to 
obovate leaves less than an inch long, small white flowers and red fruits. Probably 
hardy as far north as the Ohio River. (Chico, Calif.) 
62256. COTONEASTER SALICIFOLIA FLOCCOSA. From Orleans, France. Presented by Leon 
Chenault, through Dr. David Fairchild, agricultural explorer, Bureau of Plant 
Industry. A graceful evergreen shrub apout 12 feet high, which bears dense corymbs 
of white flowers and roundish, light-red persistent fruits. Native to western China 
at altitudes of 7,500 to 9,800 feet. For trial in California and the southern 
states. (Chico, Calif.) 
95618. CREMANTHODIUM SP. Asteraceae. From China. Collected by the Forest Expedi- 
tion 1930-32 to southwestern China, and presented by Maj. Lionel de Rothschild, 
London, England. A perennial herb with a rosette of heart-shaped toothed leaves and 
nearly ieafless stalks bearing solitary, nodding, aster-like yellow or pale-pink 
flowerheads, For trial in California and the Gulf region. (Bell, Md.) 
101003. DAMNACANTHUS INDICUS.* Rubiaceae. From Japan. Presented by Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Gifu-ken, through P. H. Dorsett and W. J. Morse, agricultural 
explorers, Bureau of Plant Industry. A low-—growing dichotomously branched evergreen 
shrub, native to southeastern Asia. It is much used as a hedge plant in the warmer 
parts of Japan. The ovate-acute leaves are about half an inch long and the white 
flowers borne singly or in pairs in the leaf exils, are followed by coral-—red berries. 
For trial in southern California and the Gulf region. (Bell, Md.) 
