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90844. CALLISTEMON ACUMINATUS. Myrtaceae. From New South Wales, Australia. Pre— 
sented by the Director, Botanic Gardens, Sydney. An erect Australian shrub, 4 io 7 
feet high, with silky-hairy young shoots, lanceolate leaves 3 to 5 inches long, and 
dark crimson flowers in dense spikes. For trial in the warmer parts of California 
and the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 
51505. CALLISTEMON CITRINUS. Lemon Bottlebrush. Collected by H. L. Shantz in East 
Africa. An evergreen shrub or small tree up to 20 feet high, with lanceolate leaves 
1 to 3 inches long, reddish when young, lemon-scented when crushed, and spikes, 2 to 
4 inches long, of small flowers with long bright-red stamens. It holds its seed peds 
for several years. Native to southeastern Australia. For trial in California and 
the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 
78532. CALLISTEMON CITRINUS. Lemon bottlebrush. From Richmond, Victoria, Austra— 
lia, Presented by F. H, Baker. Same descripticn as preceding. (Chico, Calif.) 
90846. CALLISTEMON CITRINUS. Lemon botitiebrush. From New South Wales, Australia. 
Presented by the Director, Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Same description as for F. P. I. 
No 51503. (Chico; Calif.) 
90848. CALLISTEMON LINEARIS. Bottlebrush. From New South Wales. Presented by the 
Director. Botanic Gardens, Sydney. A tall shrub or small tree up to 30 feet high, 
closely resembling C. citrinus but the leaves are much narrower; the stamens, an 
inch Jong, vary from pale tovdark red. It ‘is native to Australia. “For trian 
California and the Gulf region. (Chico. Calif.) 
67069. CALOTHAMNUS ASPER. Myrtaceae. From Blackwood, South Australia. Seeds pre— 
sented by Edwin Ashby. A hairy shrub, with crowded, linear, flat leaves, and short 
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cense Glusters of flowers with crimson stamens. Native to Western Australia. For 
trial in the warmer parts of California and the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 
64478. CALOTHAMNUS CHRYSANTHERUS. From Blackwood, South Australia. Presented by 
W. L. Wheeler, through Edwin Ashby. A rather small erect shrub, native to Western 
Australia, with thick corky branches, and thick, terete, sharp-pointed leaves 2 to 
4 inches long. The chief beauty of the shrub lies in the bundles of deep—red stamens 
which protrude an inch or more from the yellowish flowers. For trial in the warmer 
parts of California and the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 
67071. CALOTHAMNUS QUADRIFIDUS. From Blackwood, Australia. Presented by Edwin 
Ashby. An erect evergreen shrub 7 feet high, with crowded linear leaves about an 
inch long, and dense spikes of flowers which are conspicuous because of the long. 
rich—crimson stamens. Native to Western Australia. For trial in the warmer parts of 
California and the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 
93834. CALOTHAMNUS QUADRIFIDUS. From Perth, Western Australia. Presented by Miss 
Ada W. Richardson. Same description as preceding. (Chico, Calif.) 
67072. CANDOLLEA CUNEIFORMIS. Candolleaceae. From Blackwood, South Australia. 
Presented by Edwin Ashby. A much branched evergreen shrub up to S feet in height 
