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75718. CERATOSTIGMA WILLMOTTIANUM. Plumbaginaceae. From western China. Presented 
by Hugh Evans, Santa Monica, California. A shrubby species forming large rounded 
bushes, 1 to 3 feet high with angled purplish stems, bristly leaves and masses of 
deep-cobalt-blue flowers an inch across from all the upper axils. The best flowers 
are produced from late summer till frost. For the southern states and the Pacific 
Coast. (Bell, Md., and Chico, Calif.) 
37954. CHAENOMELES LAGENARTIA 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 Fringetree. From Shantung, China. Collected 
by Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. The Chinesefringe tree resembles our 
native species in general habit but differs in having smaller leaves and smaller 
panicles of flowers. The linear petals are broader than those of our species and 
make a greater show. Believed by some to be the superior species, but so different 
that both species might well be grown. (Chico, Calif.) 
76862. CHORIZEMA CORDATUM. From Victoria, Australia. Presented by F. J. Rae, 
Melbourne Botanic Gardens. An Australian leguminous shrub with slender weak branches 
and coarse oaklike leaves similar to those of C. ilicifolium except for the cordate 
base, and axillary and terminal racemes of flowers similar to that species except 
that the pea~shaped flowers are smaller, with reddish standards and darker red wings. 
For trial in southern California and southern Florida. (Chico, Calif.) 
65003. CISTUS CRISPUS. Rockrose. From Ronda, Spain. Collected by David Fairchild, 
Agricultural Explorer. A compact shrub about 2 feet high with narrow sessile leaves. 
The deep pink flowers like small single roses are borne near the tips of the shoots. 
Native to southern Europe. For trial in the southern United States. (Chico, Calif.) 
65004. CISTUS SALVIFOLIUS. Rockrose. From Ronda, Spain. Collected by David Fair- 
child, Agricultural Explorer. A white-flowered rockrose of southern Spain where it 
covers great stretches of country in the cork-oak forests around Ronda. For trial 
in the southern United States. (Chico, Calif.) 
70900. CISTUS SYMPHYTIFOLIUS. Rockrose. From Orotava, Teneriffe, Canary Islands. 
Seeds collected by David Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer. A species something like 
the more familiar C. laurifolius but with deep rose-red flowers blotched yellow at 
the base and somewhat narrower foliage. (Chico, Calif.) 
57350. ‘CISTUS VILLOSUS. Rockrose. From Cambridge, England. Presented by H. G. 
Carter, Cambridge Botanic Garden. An erect hairy shrub, 3 to 4 feet high, with 
wrinkled, gray-green leaves and reddish-purple flowers about 2 inches in diameter, 
borne singly or in threes. Native to the Mediterranean region. Probably tender 
north of southern Ohio. (Chico, Calif.) 
72793. CLEMATIS CHRYSOCOMA SERICEA. From England. Presented by Dr. A. W. Hill, 
Director, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. An ornamental Chinese vine about 20 feet high 
with silky hairy rounded leaves and solitary or paired white flowers 3 to 4 inches 
across. For trial throughout the United States. (Chico, Calif.) 
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