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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



49922 to 49954 — Continued. 



49934. Clematis aethusifolia Tiircz. Ranunculaceae. 



A free-growing deciduous climber from China, 5 to 6 feet high, with densely 

 tangled slender stems and finely divided foliage. The attractive pale-yellow 

 blossoms are produced profusely. 



49935. Clematis fargesii Franch. Ranunculaceae. 



A 20-foot climber with white flowers which are 2 inches across in 3-flowered 

 long-stalked axillary cymes. 



49936. Clematis fusca Turcz, Ranunculaceae. 



A semiherbaceous climber from northeastern Asia, with woolly reddish brown 

 pitcher-shaped flowers. The seed vessels are covered mth yellow-brown silky 

 hairs. 



49937. Clematis rehderiana Craib. Ranunculaceae, 



A Chinese woody climber with pinnate chartaceous leaves which . are pale 

 beneath and compact axillary panicles of flowers. The sepals are 1.7 centi- 

 meters long, reflexed at the tip, pilose on the outer surface, smooth on the 

 inner. (Adapted from Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 1914, p. 

 150.) 



49938. Clematis veitchiana Craib. Ranunculaceae. 



A Chinese woody climber with bipinnate chartaceous leaves and long lax 

 axillary inflorescences of gracefully drooping flowers with ciliated sepals. 

 (Adapted from Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 1914, p. 151.) 



49939. Deutzia corymbosa R. Br. Hydrangeaceae. 



This pretty species has a special value by reason of its late, continuous flow- 

 ering, being at its best in July and August, when the bush is covered with the 

 corymbose clusters of pm*e-white flowers not far removed in form or purity of 

 color from those of Bouvardia jasminoides. (Adapted from Gardening Illus- 

 trated, vol. 39, p. 501.) 



49940. Deutzia longifolia Franch. Hydrangeaceae. 



A deciduous shrub, 4 to 6 feet high, one of the handsomest garden plants of 

 the genus. The young shoots are covered with a pale scurf and the leaves 

 are whitish below. The rosy flowers, about an inch across, are borne in rounded 

 cymose clusters 2 to 3 inches across. (Adapted from Gardeners^ Chronicle, 

 third series, vol. 51, p. 409.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 42691. 



49941. Deutzia longifolia veitchii (Veitch) Rehder. Hydrangeaceae. 

 This vigorous plant from Yunnan, China, has large, brilliantly colored, 



deep rose-lilac flowers, disposed in numerous little clusters the entire length 

 of the branches. 

 For previous introduction , see S. P. I. No. 42691. 



49942. Deutzia mollis Duthie. Hydrangeaceae. 



A very distinct and beautiful species from central China. The white or 

 pink-tinged flowers are in flat corymbose panicles. (Adapted from Gardeners^ 

 Chronicle, third series, vol. 40, p. 238.) 



49943. Deutzia sieboldiana Maxim. Hydrangeaceae. 



The lowest growing of all the Deutzias, of a very compact habit. It has 

 small white flower panicles which are not very conspicuous; but it is a very 

 graceful shrub. (Adapted from Gardening Illustrated, vol. 39, p. 335.) 



