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67072. CANDOLLEA CUNEIFORMIS. Candolleaceae. From Blackwood, South Australia. 
Presented by Edwin Ashby. An erect evergreen shrub about 7 feet high, with thick 
wedge-shaped leaves and yellow flowers. For trial in the Gulf States and California. 
(Chico, Calif.) 
75408. CASSINIA FULVIDA. Asteraceae. From New Zealand. Presented by Vicary Gibbs, 
Aldenham House Gardens, Elstree, Herts, England. An erect bushy shrub 2 to 5 feet 
high with yellow, hairy, sessile leaves and clusters of white flower heads. For 
trial in the Gulf States and California. (Bell, Md.) 
75409. CASSINIA LEPTOPHYLLA. Asteraceae. From New Zealand. Presented by Vicary 
Gibbs, Aldenham House Gardens, Elstree, Herts, England. A heath-like evergreen 
shrub, 4 feet high, with silver-—tinted foliage. For trial in the Gulf States and 
California. (Bell, Md.) 
75410. CASSINIA VAUVILLIERSII. Asteraceae. From New Zealand. Presented by Vicary 
Gibbs, Aldenham House Gardens, Elstree, Herts, England. An erect, compact shrub, 
§ to 10 feet high, with small narrow leathery leaves half an inch long, and terminal 
Gense corymbs of white flowers. For trial in the Gulf States and California. (Bell, 
Nd. )F 
74696. CASUARINA LUEHMANNI. Casuarinaceae. From Australia. Presented by Alfred 
Bircher, Director, Middle Egypt Botanic Garden Station, Matania, El Saff, Egypt. 
A tree 80 to 100 feet high, with light-colored branchlets and flattened cones half 
an inch in diameter. The wood is hard and close grained. For trial in the Gulf 
States and California. (Chico, Calif.) 
63349. CELASTRUS ROSTHORNIANA. From western China. Presented by M. L. Parde, 
Nogent—sur-—Vernisson, Loiret, France. A climbing shrub 15 to 20 feet high, with 
thick shining leaves, greenish white flowers and orange-yellow fruits. Probably 
hardy except in the extreme north. (Bell, Md.) 
75718. CERATOSTIGMA WILLMOTTIANUM. Plumbaginaceae. From western China. Presented 
by Hugh Evans, Santa Monica, Calif. A half-woody perennial, 1 to 3 feet high, with 
angled purplish stems, bristly leaves, and cobalt—blue flowers an inch wide, borne 
successively in a large head. North of southern Ohio it should have a protective 
covering in winter and a dry, well-drained, sunny location. (Chico, Calif.) 
37954. CHAENOMELES LAGENARIA CATHAYENSIS. Quince. From Shantung, China. Collected 
by Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. A large-fruited variety, used by the 
Chinese to perfume their living rooms, but used by foreign missionaries to make pre—- 
serves and jellies. (Chico, Calif.) 
21617. CHIONANTHUS RETUSA. Chinese Fringe Tree. From Shantung, China. Collected 
by Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. A beautiful deciduous, hardy, ornamental 
tree bearing in spring a multitude of white, deliciously fragrant flowers with hand— 
some fringed petals, followed in the fall by masses of blue berries resembling wild 
grapes. This tree is used by the Chinese as a stock on which to graft their scented 
olive, Osmanthus fragrans. It is superior to the Virginia fringe tree (C. virginica) 
because of the whiteness and fragrance of its flowers, and its more graceful habit. 
(Chico, Calif.) 
