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67C69. CALOTHAMNUS ASPER. Myrtaceae. From Blackwood, South Australia. Presented 

 by Edwin Ashby. A hairy shrub, with crowded, linear, flat leaves, and short dense 

 clusters of flowers with crimson stamens. Native to Western Australia. For trial in 

 the warmer parts of California and the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



101200. CALOTHAMNUo ASPER. From the same source as preceding (No. 67069). (Glenn 

 Dale, Md.) 



64478. CALOTHAMNUS CHRYSANTHERUS . From Blackwood, South Australia. Presented by 

 W. L. Wheeler, through Edwin Ashby. A rather small erect shrub, native to V/estern 

 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.) 



101202. CALOTHAMNUS LONGISSIMUS. From Edwin Ashby. Wittunga, Blackwood, Australia. 

 A low shrub, native to Western Australia, with softly pubescent corky branchlets. 



The terete leaves are 6 to 12 inches long, and the small flowers, imbedded in the 

 swollen corky stem, have several bundles of stamens nearly an inch long. For trial 

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



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.) 



101203. CALOTHAMNUS QUADRIFIDUS. From the same source as preceding (F. P. I. 

 No. 67071). (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



90341-2. CARAGANA PEKINENSIS. Pea-shrub. From China. Collected by P. H. Dorsett 

 and W. J. Morse, agricultural explorers. Bureau of Plant Industry, in a small canyon 

 on the rocky mountain side near the Tau Chou Ssu Temple, Chihli Province. A decidu- 

 ous shrub, closely related to Caragana microph ylla, with compound leaves composed of 

 oblong or rounded-elliptic, silky-hairy leaflets about i inch long, small yellow 

 flowers 1/5 inch long, and flat hairy pods. Native to northeastern China. For 

 trial in the upper south and all except the coldest parts of the northern states. 

 (Glenn Dale. Md. ) • 



77177. CARMICHAELIA ODORATA. Fabaceae . From Wanganui, New Zealand, Presented 

 by the Town Clerk, Wanganui City Council. A much-branched New Zealand shrub, related 

 to the brooms, 3 to 10 feet high, leafy in the spring and summer. The slender 

 erect racemes of purple flowers are borne on pendulous branches. For trial in 

 the warmer parts of California and the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



62703. CARYOPTERIS TANGUTICA. Verbenaceae. From Elstree, Herts, England. Pre- 

 sented by the late Vicary Gibbs, Aldenham House Gardens. A deciduous ornamental shrub 

 growing 4 to 6 feet high, native to northwest China. It has opposite, ovate leaves 1 

 to 2 inches long and numerous, axillary cymes of violet-blue flowers in summer. For 

 trial in all but the most northern states. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



