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85730 AMPELOPSIS BREVIPEDUNCULATA MAXIMOWICZII . Vitaceae. From Japan. Col- 

 lected by P. H. Dorsett and W. J. Morse, agricultural explorers. Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. A vigorous climbing, deciduous, grapelike, woody vine with broadly cordate, 

 deeply 3- to 5-lobed leaves, which are coarsely serrate; dark green above and lighter 

 beneath. The cymes of inconspicuous flowers are followed by fruits about a quarter 

 of an inch across, changing from pale lilac to verdigris color and finally to bright 

 blue. Native to eastern Asia. For trial in all except the colder parts of the 

 northern states. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



41395, AMYGDALUS PERSICA. Dwarf Peach. From Kiayingchau, Kwantung, China. Pre- 

 sented by George Campbell. A dwarf, evergreen, ornamental Chinese peach with showy 

 flowers, grown in its native land as a house plant. At the Plant Introduction Gar- 

 den, Chico, California, a tree of this variety is about 7 feet high, with a spread 

 of 10 feet, and with deep-green, heavy, compact evergreen foliage. The small cling- 

 stone fruit is fragrant but of inferior quality. Ripening season at Chico, early 

 September, Plants budded on Indian Blood peach stocks. (Chico, Calif.) 



76S31, ANIGOZANTHOS FLAVIDA. Amaryllidaceae . From Melbourne, Australia. Pre- 

 sented by Mrs. Frieda C. Blanchard. An herbaceous perennial, native to western 

 Australia with a thick underground stem, linear radical leaves 1 to 2 feet long, and 

 a 4-foot stalk bearing a much-branched panicle of tubular flowers. The flowers and 

 stems of the panicle are covered with a greenish red wool. For trial in the southern 

 United States. (Chico, Calif.) 



77543, ARTHROPODIUM CIRRHATUM, Liliaceae, From Nelson, New Zealand, Presented 

 by A. Wilkinson, New Zealand Alpine and Rock Garden Society. An herbaceous perennial 

 bearing tall somewhat branched stalks, with small leafy bracts subtending the drooping 

 white flowers. These are about 1 inch in diameter with slender tube and reflexed 

 but spreading lobes- and conspicuous stamens and pistil, somewhat like Anthericum. 

 For trial in the southeastern states and the Pacific northwest. (Chico, Calif,) 



90657. BETULA COSTATA, Birch. From Manchuria. Collected by P. H. Dorsett and 

 W. J. Morse, agricultural explorers. Bureau of Plant Industry. A handsome graceful 

 tree up to 100 feet high, with grayish brown bark exfoliating in papery flakes. 

 Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 2-3 inches long, long-acuminate, doubly serrate. 

 For trial in the upper southern and the milder parts of the northern states. (Glenn 

 Dale, t'd. ) 



78432. BRYOPHYLLUM TUBIFLORUM. Crassulaceae . From Madagascar. Collected by 

 Charles F. Swingle, Bureau of Plant Industry, and Dr. Henri Humbert, University 

 of Algiers, Algeria. An erect succulent perennial, about 2 feet high, native to 

 Madagascar. The green cylindrical leaves , irregularly striped and blotched with 

 reddish green, bear pseudo-bulbils at the summit. These mature at the approach of 

 the wet season and furnish means by which the plant may be propagated. The red flow- 

 ers are produced in a rather dense cluster terminating the stem. For trial in 

 the Gulf region and southern California, (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



100516. BUDDLEIA FALLOWIANA. From China. Collected by the sixth Forrest expedi- 

 tion in southwestern China, and presented by Henry McLaren, Bodant, Tay-y-Cafn, N. 

 Wales. A graceful shrubby plant with silvery woolly foliage and dense cylindrical 

 spikes of small, white, fragrant flowers with orange centers. For trial in the 

 southern states and on the Pacific coast. (Chico, Calif.) 



