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38991 to 39101— Continued. 



inches, but seems to suffer from the wetness of an ordinary border in 

 winter and should probably be wintered under glass. The leaves are 

 opposite, linear, coarsely and irregularly toothed. The flowers, which 

 occur in compact, globose cymes, are yellow in color and make their 

 appearance in summer. In India it is said to have red flowers." (L. H. 

 Bailey. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture.) 



39076. Sedum boseum (L.) Scopoli. Crassulaceae. 



" This Sedum is a neat-growing plant, suitable for rockeries or the 

 front rows of borders. It reaches a height of 8 to 10 inches, the leaves 

 are scattered and oblong, the flowers are greenish purple, in a terminal 

 flat-topped cyme 1 inch across. This species of Sedum may be found 

 growing in Europe, North America, and the Himalayas." (L. H. Bailey, 

 Cyclopedia of American Horticulture.) 



39077. Selinum tenuifolium Wallich. Apiaceae. 



"A hardy perennial herb with finely cut, fernlike foliage, and a stem 

 about 8 feet high, branched, with numerous umbels of white flowers. The 

 ultimate segments of leaves are narrowly lanceolate and acute. This 

 plant was offered as a novelty in America in 1899 and later recommended 

 as a foliage plant for single lawn specimens." (L. H. Bailey, Cyclopedia 

 of American Horticulture.) 



39078. Sexecio uxcixellus DC. Asteraceae. 

 (Senecio denMflorus Wall.) 



Distribution. — A yellow-flowered shrubby sneezewort with white- 

 woolly leaves, found on the lower slopes of the central and western 

 Himalayas and on the Khasi Hills in India. 



39079. S&NECio KAPHAXiFOLius Wall. Asteraceae. 

 {Senecio densiflorus Wall.) 



Distribution. — A yellow-flowered herbaceous perennial of the aster 

 family with lyrate-pinnatifid leaves and red pappus on the fruiting heads, 

 found on the slopes of the central and eastern Himalayas in northern 

 India at an altitude of 10,000 to 14.000 feet. 



39080. Senecio scandexs Buch.-Ham. Asteraceae. 



A woody climbing plant reaching a height of several yards, with slen- 

 der, somewhat hairy branches. The leaves are rather small, grayish 

 green, short stemmed, lance-elliptic and acute, with small triangular 

 teeth on the margins, and are either simple or have 2 or 3 leaflets at the 

 base. The yeUow flower heads, about three-fourths of an inch wide, 

 occur in lax terminal corymbs. The home of this species is in the Hima- 

 layas and in China. It should not be confused with the commonly culti- 

 vated «S. scandens Hort., which is S. mikanioides Otto. (Adapted from 

 Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Keic, Appendix 

 III, 1910, p. 82.) 



39081. Senecio sp. Asteraceae. 



39082. SoRBUs iNSiGNis (Hook, f.) Hedl. Malaceae. 

 {Pyrus insignis Hook, f.) 



Distribution. — A small tree, one of the most beautiful of the whole 

 genus, found on the slopes of the Sikkim Himalayas at an altitude of 

 8,000 to 11,000 feet. 



