= 10-+ 
68020. CASSIA BACILLARIS. From southeastern Asia. Collected by David Fairchild, 
Agricultural Explorer. A small leguminous tree with pinnate leaves, suitable for 
street and park planting. The flowers are golden yellow and an inch or more in 
diameter. For trial in Florida and southern California. (Chapman Field, Fla.) 
73000. CASSIA BRASILIENSIS. From Cameroons, West Africa. Collected by David 
Fairchild. A small, ornamental, tropical leguminous tree with deep green, pinnate 
foliage and yellow flowers. For trial in Florida and southern California. (Chapman 
Field, Fla.) 
70898. CASSIA LAEVIGATA. Smooth senna. From West Africa. Collected by David 
Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer. A low leguminous shrub, about 3 feet high, with 
pinnate foliage and yellow flowers in axillary and terminal racemes. For trial as a 
cover crop in southern Florida. (Chapman Field, Fla.) 
62266. CATALPA OVATA. From Peking, China. Collected by P. H. Dorsett, Agricultur-— 
al Explorer, A hardy ornamental tree, up to 20 feet high, with oval, heart-shaped 
leaves 5 to 8 inches long, and fragrant yellow flowers, orange and violet spotted 
within, in many—flowered panicles. Native to China. For trial throughout the United 
States. (Bell, Md.) 
71142. CELASTRUS sp. Celastraceae. From northern China. Collected by P. H. Dor— 
sett, Agricultural Explorer. A small, woody, pendulous or climbing ornamental plant; 
fruits yellow and white. (Chico, Calif.) 
66160. CHAMAEDOREA sp. Palm. From British Honduras. Collected by S.J. Record, 
School of Forestry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. A spineless palm, with 
pinnate leaves, native to tropical North America. For trial in southern Florida and 
possibly as a house plant in the north. (Chapman Field, Fla.) 
62239. CISSUS STRIATA. From Paris, France. Obtained through David Fairchild, Agri- 
cultural Explorer. A low, shrubby, evergreen vine, native to southern South America. 
The leaves are small with 3 to 5 leaflets; the yellowish flowers are in rather dense 
clusters, Probably tender except in the southern States. (Bell, Md.) 
67165. CISTUS ALBIDUS. From Brignoles, France. Presented by Dr. R. Salgues, Di- 
rector, Station Botanique de Brignoles. A low shrub about 4 feet high, with white- 
hairy leaves, and rosy flowers in small clusters. “ Native to southern Europe and 
northern Africa. Fortrial in the Gulf States and California. (Bell, Md.) 
67350. 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 one to three reddish purple flowers about 2 inches 
wide, Native to the Mediterranean region. Probably tender north of southern Ohio. 
(Chico, Calif.) 
65925. 
71143. CLEMATIS BREVICAUDATA. .From Harbin, Manchuria. Collected by P. H. Dorsett, 
Agricultural Explorer. A vigorous climbing vine, native to China, with pinnate or 
bipinnate, coarsely toothed leaves and axillary panicles of white flowers. Probably 
hardy throughout the United States. (Bell Md., and Chico, Calif.) 


