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67085. MELALEUCA VIOLACEA. From Blackwood, South Australia. Presented by Edwin 
Ashby. <A low, spreading shrub, with the flowering branches often corky, and oval= 
heart-shaped leaves. The purple-red flowers are either in terminal globular heads 
or in small axillary clusters. Native to Western Australia. For trial in the Gulf 
States and California. (Chico, Calif.) 
67086. MELALEUCA WEBSTERI. From Blackwood, South Australia. Presented by Edwin 
Ashby. An Australian shrub with opposite, narrowly oblong thick leaves abcut one—- 
third of an inch long, and reundish heads of small white flowers. For trial in the 
Gulf States and California. (Chico, Calif.) 
27048. MORUS ALBA. Mulberry. Variety FASTIGIATA. From Orleans, France. Presented by 
Leon Chenault. A variety with a narrow pyramidal habit, reported to bear large crops 
of good quality berries. Probably not hardy north of southern Ohio. (Chico, Calif.) 
60324. MORUS KAGAYAMAE. Mulberry. From Algiers, Algeria. Presented by Dr. L. 
Trabut. <A handsome Japanse mulberry which thrives in Algeria and whose leaves are 
readily eaten by silkworms. For trial in southern California. (Chico, Calif.) 
30330. MORUS NIGRA. Black Mulberry. From Khotan, Sinkiang, China. Collected by 
Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. The berries are large, dark violet—black, 
and have a fresh, subacid taste. They rippen from early August until the end of 
september. Recommended as a home fruit in desert regions under irrigations. (Chico, 
Calif.) 
66228. MUSSAENDA LUTEOLA. Rubiaceae. From Peradeniya, Ceylon, India. Collected 
by David Fairchild and P. H. Dorsett, Agricultural Explorers. A dwarf shrub with 
small, yellow flowers and large, white bract-like sepals which are very showy. It 
resembles Slightly the northern dogwood. For trial in southern Florida. (Chapman, 
Field, Fla.) 
66229. ONCOBA SPINOSA From Peradeniya, Ceyon, India. Collected by David Fair- 
child and P. H. Dorsett, Agricultural Explorers. A relative of ONCOBA ECHINATA with 
seeds which contain chaulmoogric acid. This species, native to Arabia, forms a 
small, bushy tree bearing large, scented, white flowers, and fruits the size of small 
apples which are reported to be edible. For trial in southern Florida. (Chapman 
Field, Fla.) 
67724. PASSIFLORA FOETIDA. From the Dutch East Indies. Collected by David Fair— 
chila and P. H. Dorsett, Agricultural Explorers. A passion fruit with small purple 
flowers, and delicately flavored, yellow fruits, half to three fourth of an inch in 
diameter. For trial in southern Florida. (Chapman Field, Fla.) 
67647, PAYENA sp. Sapotaceae, From Java. Collected by David Fairchild, Agricul- 
tural Explorer. An ornamentai tropical tree which is especially attractive when 
loaded with bright orange-red fruits the size of a robin's egg. For trial in Florida 
and southern California. (Bell, Md.) 
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