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SEEDS AND PLAINTS IMPORTED. 



35173 to 35200— Continued. 



36196. Rosa multibracteata Hemsley and Wilson. Rose. 

 "From seed 1053 E. h! Wilson." 



"A hardy species with pretty pink flowers from the valley of the Min River, 

 western Szechwan. ' ' ( Wilson.) 



"A bush rose about 6 feet high, closely related to R. wehbiana, but differs in its 

 more crowded inflorescences, more numerous lanceolate bracts, fewer carpels, 

 and longer styles. Flowers pink, one-half to thi'ee-fourths inch across in narrow 

 terminal thyrsoid panicles. Fruit red, globose. " {Hemsley and Wilson, Kew 

 Bull. Misc. Inf., 1906, p. 157.) 



35197. RuBus BIFLORUS QUiNQUEFLORUS Focko. Raspberry. 



"This is one of the most striking of all the brambles introduced by Mr. Wilson. 

 He collected seeds in west Szechwan, southeast of Tachien-lu, at an altitude 

 of 5.000 to 6,000 feet. The growths are pai'ticularly strong, being 12 feet in 

 height, and the stems 4^ inches in circumference at the base. The waxy 

 • white bloom on the stems is a particularly striking feature. They are armed 

 with large, stiff spines, one-half inch in length. The leaves are pinnate, about 

 1 foot in length, and generally consist of five leaflets, which are white beneath 

 and green above. The flowers are white, thi-ee-fourths inch in diameter, being 

 borne in terminal and axillary panicles of about five flowers. The fruit is a 

 rich, golden-yellow color, equal in size to those of most of our cultivated rasp- 

 berries, and of a good flavor. This species, so far as I am able to judge, is 

 likely to prove the most useful of the Chinese raspberries to the hybridist for 

 raising new fi'uits. " (Gardeners' Chronicle, March 9, 1912.) 



36198. Spiraea henryi Hemsl. 



"From seed 4327 E. H-. Wilson. From Pan-lan-shan, west of Kuan Hsien, 

 Szechwan, at altitudes of 9,000 to 10,000 feet. A bush 7^ to 11 feet high." 

 (Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. 1, p. 447, 1913.) 



"Shi'ub, of lax, spreading habit, 7 to 8 (perhaps more) feet high; branches 

 sparsely pilose the first season, glabrous or nearly so the second. Leaves on the 

 barren shoots 2^ to 3^ inches long, oblanceolate, glabrous or slightly pilose 

 above, tomentose beneath, coarsely dentate near the apex; those of the flower 

 shoots smaller, thi'ee-fourths to 1^ inches long, obovate or oblong, usually with 

 thi-ee to seven teeth at the apex, but occasionally entire. Flowers one-fourth 

 inch in diameter, produced in compound corymbs 2 inches across, which are 

 terminal on short twigs springing from the branches of the previous year; 

 peduncles and pedicels pilose. Petals white, orbicular. Calyx with five tri- 

 angular lobes. Ovary pilose, 2 ovuled. Fruit in corymbs; carpels 5, one-eighth 

 inch long when mature, membranaceous, dehiscing ventrally." (Botanical 

 Magazine, pi. 8270.) 



36199. Viburnum betulifolium Batalin. 

 "From seed 5924." 



"A deciduous shrub with glabrous branches and branchlets purple or purplish 

 brown during their first and second years, later becoming marked by longitudi- 

 nal fissures. Apparently most closely related to V. wrightii Miquel, but differs 

 chiefly in the presence of stipules, in the more coarsely serrate-ovate or rhombic- 

 ovate leaves, with fewer veins, and in the glandular and hairy ovary. As an 

 ornamental shrub will probably be as valuable as V. wrightii, and will doubtless 

 be a handsome object in flower and in fruit. " (Rehder, Trees and Shrubs, vol. 2, 

 p. 99,1908.). 



