
          (19)

32924. CAJUPUTI CUTICULARIS.  From Alwyn Berger, La
Mortola, Ventimiglia, Italy.  Tall shrub or small tree with, tortuous,
somewhat rigid branches; the bark deciduous in paperlike layers;
opposite thick leaves one-fourth to one-half inch long.  Male flowers
usually in terminal heads; the perfect flowers occasionally in dense
oblong or cylindrical spikes, yellow.  Native of Dutch East Indies.
Formerly known as Melaleuca cuticularis.

42829. CALPURNEA AUREA. Presented by the director,
Department of Colonization, Asmara, Eritrea, Africa.  Tall, ornamental 
shrub, related to Sophora, which it resembles somewhat in
its foliage and the arrangement of the inflorescences. The bright-
yellow pea-shaped flowers are, however, much showier than the
nearly white blooms of Sophora.  Blossoms in winter.  Native of
subtropical Africa.

CARAGANA ARBORESCENS.  Siberian pea tree.  Hardy
ornamental shrub or small tree up to 20 feet high, with pale or bright
yellow flowers three-fourths inch long.  Extensively grown in Russia;
trimmed low for ornamental hedges. Very drought resistant; used
by the Russian Government as a nurse tree in dry, young timber
tracts. For testing as an ornamental and as a windbreak in cold
regions.

40157. CARAGANA AURANTIACA. From the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, England.  Deciduous shrub 4 feet high, with grace-
ful, ultimately pendulous, leafy branches, armed with triple spines
one-fourth of an inch long.  Leaves nearly sessile, composed of four
narrow leaflets, one-third to one-half of an inch long. Orange-yellow
flowers three-fourths of an inch long, produced in great profusion
from the underside of the branches.  Easily propagated by late sum-
mer cuttings.

22981. CARAGANA sp.  Fei chong.  From Soochow, Kiangsu,
China.  Collected by F. N. Meyer.  A low-growing leguminous shrub,
far from being common.  In China it is cultivated in pots as an
ornamental plant, bearing bronze-yellow flowers.  It will probably
not prove hardy in the North.

40711. CARAGANA sp.  From F. N. Meyer, Taochow, Kansu,
China.  Spiny shrub of low, dense growth, found in dry loess soil and
in pebbly banks at altitudes of 9,500 feet and over.  Used in China as
a hedge plant.  Able to withstand low temperatures and great
drought ; of value as a hedge plant for the dry, colder sections of the
United States.
        