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Native to Ethiopia and also the Cape region of Africa. For trial in southern Cali-= 
fornia and southern Florida. Bell, Ma., and Chico, Calif.) 
76345. HYMENANTHERA CRASSIFOLIA. Violaceae. From France. Presented by Vilmorin= 
Andrieux and Company, Verrieres—le-Buisson, Seine-et-Oiss, France. A dense half- 
evergreen New Zealand shrub about 6 feet high with crowded obovate leaves, small 
¥ owish-white or brownish flowers and-small berryv—like white fruits: For trial in 
California and the Gulf States. (Chico, Calif.) 
24638. ILEX CORNUTA. Chinese Holly. From northern China. Presented by Rev. J. 
M. W. Farnham. This holly has spiny, dark-green, glossy leaves, and in winter is 
loaded with clusters of scarlet berries. While it does not make as symmetrical a 
crown as does the native Christmas holly, Ilex opaca, its attractive lustrous 
foliage and bright-colored fruits render it a fine winter ornamental for the southern 
half of the United States. (Chico, Calif.) 
70980. ILEX sp. Holly. From Kiangsi Province, China. Collected by F. A. MsClure. 
An ornamental 16 to 20 feet high, with fine dark-green foliage and bright-red ber-— 
ries. ‘May be identical with Ilex cornuta. For trial in the southern half of the 
United States. (Chico, Calif.) 
75258. INODES TEXANA. Texas Palmetto. From Brownsville, Texas. Seeds collected 
by Dr. J. N. Rose. An erect handsome fan-leaf palm, up to 50 feet high, native on 
both banks of the Rio Grande below Brownsville. The trunks of the older trees are 
smooth, while the persistent leafstalks form a network on the trunks of younger ones. 
The leaves are borne in a large terminal cluster, and the blades are 5 feet across. 
The edible fleshy fruits are about 5/8 of an inch in diameter. For trial in southern 
California and southern Florida. (Chico, Calif.) 
78083 JASMINUM STEPHANENSE. From France. Obtained from E. Turbat and Company, 
Orleans, France. A fragrant hybrid jasmine resembling in general habit the familiar 
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other parent, J. beesianum. Hardy from Philadelphia south. (Bell, Md.) 
78403. LARIX DAHURICA. Larch, From Japan. Seed obtained from the Director, For-— 
estry Experiment Station, Keijyo, Chosen, Japan. Variety Coreana. A Korean form 
of the Dahurian Larch which is a tree up to 100 feet high with long horizontal bran—- 
shes, reddish or yellowish branchlets, bright-green flattened leaves, and ovoid cones 
an inch long. For trial in the northern States. (Bell, Md.) 
77703. $LIGUSTRUM ACUTISSIMUM. Privet. From Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Seeds 
sollected at the Arnold Arboretum by Paul Russell. A loose—growing, much-branched 
“shrub about 10 feet high, with spreading and curving branches, and very narrow sharp- 
pointed leaves about 2 inches long. The white flowers are borne in dense nodding 
panicles about an inch long. Native to Japan and China. For trial throughout the 
United States. (Bell, Md.) 
56317. LIGUSTRUM IONANDRUM. Privet. From Yunnan, China. Collected by J. F. Rock, 
Agricultural Explorer. A compact, ornamental shrub, 10 to 12 feet high, found among 
limestone bowlders on the Likiang Snow Range at altitudes of 10,000 feet. For trial 
in the southern United States. ~(Chico, Calif.) 
