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43142. AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Lippiatt's Late Orange Nectarine. From New 
Zealand. Plants presented by H. R. Wright. The fruits of this freestone variety are 
about 2 inches in diameter, with deep—orange skin mottled with red. the flesh is fim, 
juicy, sweet, and of good texture with an excellent flavor. It should be a good 
shipper. At Chico, California, it ripens in late July or early August. Plants on 
peach seedlings of F, P. I, No, 40900. (Chico, Calif.) 
98798. ARISTOLOCHIA ELEGANS.* Calico flower. Presented by the Director, Botanic 
Garden, Paramaribo, Surinam, through Allison V. Armour Expedition. A vigorous clin- 
ber with reniform-—cordate leaves 2 to 3 inches across and attractive flowers with 2 
large tubular open—mouthed dark—chocolate—colored corolla 3 inches across. For trial 
in southern Florida and southern California. (Bell, Md.) 
98045. ARISTOTELIA CHILENSIS. From Chile. Collected by Donaid MacMillan and C. 0. 
Erlanson, agricultural explorers, Bureau of Plant Industry, near Ancud, Chiloe 
Island. An ornamental shrub or small tree up to 15 feet high, with oblong glossy 
leaves and inconspicuous greenish axillary flowers. The purplish fruits, which con- 
tain a strong coloring matter, look much like wild cherries. For trial in southern 
California and the Gulf region, (Bell, Md.) 
87067 BAECKBA PLATYCEPHALA. Myrtaceae. From South Australia. Presented by Edwin 
Ashby, Blackwood. A small densely branched shrub, 1 or 2 feet high, with thick 
leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, and small white flowers in the upper 
axils, Native to Western Australia. For trial in southern California and southern 
Florida. (Chico, Calif.) 
95992. BUDDLETA MYRIANTHA. From China. Collected by the Forest Expedition to south— 
western China, and presented by Maj. Lionel de Rothschild, London, England. A shrub 
6 to 10 feet high, native to Yunnan, China, with lanceolate=serrulate leaves 5 to 7 
inches long and panicles 10 inches long of fragrant, deep-purple flowers covered 
with brown hairs. It is allied to B. davidii. For trial in the Gulf region and in 
southern California. (Bell, Md.) 
23012. BUXUS HARLANDII*. Bex. From Hangchow, Chekiang, China. This Chinese species 
is almost as slow in growth as the dwarf box commonly used for edgings. It differs 
from this chiefly in its longer leaves, often 14 inches long on vigorous shoots, 
and its tendency to form rather broad, flat-topped bushes, The species suffers from 
winter-killing near Washington, D. C. For trial in the southern states and Califor— 
nia, (Chico, Calif.) . 
77823. CALLICARPA GIRALDIANA.* Verbenaceae. From Jamaica Plain, Mass. Plants 
grown from seed collected at the Arnold Arboretum by Paul Russell, Bureau of Plant 
Tndustry. A deciduous Chinese shrub 10 feet high, with membranous light—green leaves, 
cymes of pink flowers, and dense clusters of round berrylike, violet fruits which 
hang on after the leaves have fallen. For trial in the upper south and all except 
the coldest parts of the northern states. (Bell, Md.) 
93879. CALLICARPA GIRALDIANA. From China. Collected by the Forest Expedition to 
China, and presented by Major Lionel de Rothschild, London, England. Same descrip— 
tion as preceding (F. P. I. No. 778235). (Bell. Md.) 
