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73432. DEUTZIA MONBEIGII. From southwestern China. Presented by Vicary Gibbs, 
Aldenham House Gardens, Elstree, Herts, England. Related to Deutzia discolor, this 
shrub differs in being smaller and more spreading in habit. The rather thick, ovate 
or ovate~lanceolate, hairy dull-green leaves, paler beneath, are finely denticulate, 
and the white flowers, nearly half an inch across, are in 5 to 12-flowered cymes. 
(Bell, Md.) 
73454. DEUTZIA SCABRA CANDIDISSIMA. From eastern Asia. Presented by Vicary Gibbs, 
Aldenham House Gardens, Elstree, Herts, England. A shrub about 5 feet high, with 
dull-green, rough-hairy, ovate~oblong leaves, paler beneath, and dense upright panicles 
of very large, very double white flowers. Probably hardy except in the extreme north. 
(Bell, Md.) 
76711. DIANELLA TASMANICA. Liliaceae. From Australia. Presented by Mrs. Frieda 
Cobb Blanchard. A Tasmanian perennial 4 to 5 feet high, with a rosette of broadly 
sword—shaped leaves 2 to 4 feet long, pale-—blue flowers in a large loose panicle, and 
bright-blue berries on slender pedicels. For trial chiefly in the southern United 
States. (Chico, Calif.) 
76713. DIPLARRHENA MORABA. TIridaceae. From Australia. Presented by Mrs. Frieda 
Cobb Blanchard. An iris-like perennial with a short creeping root-stalk and numerous 
thick flat pale=green leaves an inch wide and 1 to 2 feet long. The flower stem is 
2 feet high with a terminal spike of a few flowers opening one at a time, the outer 
segments spreading and white and the inner erect and yellow. For trial in the Gulf 
States and California. (Bell, Md.) 
753524. ERLANGEA sp. Asteraceae. From British East Africa. Collected by L. W. 
Kephart and R. L. Piemeisel, Agricultural Explorers, Bureau of Plant Industry. A 
tropical herbaceous plant with purple stems, light green at the top, alternate hairy 
leaves, and numerous heads of deep—purple, tubular-shaped flowers. Native to British 
East Africa. (Chico, Calif.) 
62714. ESCALLONIA sp. Presented by Vicary Gibbs, Aldenham House Gardens, Elstree, 
Herts, England. A beautiful pale-pink hybrid raised by Mr. Ball at the Botanic 
Garden, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland, and believed to be a cross between E. exoniensis 
and E. macrantha. It makes a low, somewhat prostrate, half-evergreoen bush which has 
proved hardy at Bell, Maryland. Probably tender north of southern Ohio. (Bell, Md.) 
77608. EUCALYPTUS AMYGDALINA. Almond Eucalyptus. From Richmond, Australia. Pre= 
sented by F. H. Baker. A lofty Australian tree up to 300 feet high, with lanceolate 
leaves 4 inches long, crowded umbels of small flowers and hemispheric fruits a quar- 
ter of an inch broad. The leaves have a strong odor of peppermint and are rich in 
oil. For trial in the Gulf States and California. (Chico, Calif.) 
77609. EUCALYPTUS BOTRYOIDES. Bangalay. From Richmond, Australia. Presented by 
F. H. Baker. A tall handsome tree, native to Australia, with beautiful dark-green 
horizontal lanceolate leaves, umbels of small sessile flowers and obovoid rruits. 
Used as a windbreak and as a shade tree. The wood is hard, tough and durable. For 
trial in the Gulf States and California. (Chico, Calif.) 
