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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38991 to 39101— Continued. 



ing small trees in southern Florida. Flowers are borne in the greatest 

 profusion, 3 to 5 inches across, varying in color from almost white to a 

 shade of rich purple, and marked and shaded with many tones. The 

 plant is robust and hardy, growing to a height of 15 feet in less than 

 two years, and blooms all winter and spring. (Adapted from Bailey, 

 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture.) 



39001. Berberis sp. Berberidaceaj. Barberry. 



39002. Betula cylindrostachya Wallich. Betulacese. Birch. 

 "A tree native of the Himalayas and may be found growing there at 



altitudes of 3,000 and 10,000 feet. It reaches a height of about 60 feet, 

 and thrives well along forest streams. The wood is hard, strong, and 

 durable." {Mueller, Select Extra-Tropical Plants.) 



39003. Boschniakia himalaica Hook. f. and Thorns. Orobanchacese. 

 A parasite on Rhododendron roots. 



"This is a plant 6 to 18 inches in height which inhabits the temperate 

 and subalpine regions of the Himalayas at altitudes of 8,000 to 10,000 

 feet at Kumaon and 10,000 to 13,000 feet at Sikkim. The stem of this 

 plant, which is often as thick as a man's thumb, is pale brown in color 

 and is tuberous at the root. The scales are numerous and rigid and 

 range from one-half to three-fourths inch in length. This species differs 

 widely from the Asiatic species B. glabra in its much larger size, the 

 flowers being twice as large and the fruit three times as large." (Hooker, 

 Flora of British India, vol. 4, p. 327.) 



39004. Cerastium sp. Silenacea*. 



39005. Chaerophyllum villosum Wallich. Apiacese. 

 Distribution. — An herb growing about 4 feet tall, with long white hairs 



on the stem, found in the Himalayas at an altitude of 5,000 to 12,000 

 feet, and in the Khasi Hills, in India. 



39006. Chrysanthemum atkinsoni C. B. Clarke. Asteracese. 



Chrysanthemum. 



Distribution. — A strongly scented purple-flowered chrysanthemum found 

 on the slopes of the Sikkim Himalayas, in northern India, at an altitude 

 of 13,000 to 15,000 feet. ' 



39007. Clematis Montana Hamilton. Ranunculacese. Clematis. 



" This species of Clematis is a woody climber which inhabits the tem- 

 perate Himalayas from the Indus to Brahmaputra at altitudes as high as 

 12,000 feet. Always above 8,500 feet in Sikkim and in the Khasi Hills 

 and Maniput, above 4,000 feet." (Watt, Dictionary of the Economic 

 Products of India.) 



"A deciduous climber of vigorous habit, growing at least 20 feet high ; 

 stems smooth except when quite young. Leaves composed of 3 leaflets 

 on a common stalk 2 to 4 inches long, the leaflets short stalked, ovate 

 to lanceolate, pointed, variously and unequally toothed, 1 to 4 inches 

 long, half as wide. Flowers solitary, pure white, 2 to 2^ inches across, 

 each borne on a smooth stalk 2 to 5 inches long. Sepals 4, spreading, 

 oval. Seed vessel elliptical, surmounted by a plumose style, 1^ inches 

 long. Native of the Himalayas, introduced by Lady Amherst in 1831. 



