1954 
Mr. Evans, who sends these seeds, states that they were grown at Tyenna, 
which has an altitude of over 700 feet, and a rainfall of more than 40 
inches per annum. 
E. delegatejuis merits testing, on a limited scale, in Florida, the 
lower South, and the Southwest, to see if it exhibits valuable character- 
istics not shown by other species already grown in this country. 
incarvillea grandiflora brevipes ( Bignoniaceae ) , 58395. From Yunnan, 
China. Seeds collected by J. F. Rock, Collaborator of the Bureau of 
Plant Industry. "(No. 8991. Saba. September, 1923.) A stemless plant 
found in limestone soil on all of the mountain meadows of the Likiang 
Snow Range at altitudes of 9,500 to 12,000 feet, where it is the first 
to flower in early spring. The dark-green glosay leaves are lyrate and 
pinnately cut, and the large flowers, 2 to 3 inches across, are deep 
magenta purple with yellow throats." 
iris ep. (Iridaceae), 58361. From Yunnan, China. SeedB collected 
by J. F. Rock, Collaborator of the Bureau of Plant Industry. "(October 
8, 1923.) A plant a foot to a foot and a half in height, growing in 
clumps in the moist alpine meadows of Litiping, north of Lutien, at an 
altitude of about 11,000 feet. It is very handsome, with deep indigo- 
blue flowers." (Rock.) 
meconopsis spp. (Papaveraceae) , 58425, 58396. From Yunnan, China. 
Seeds collected by J. F. Rock, Collaborator of the Bureau of Plant In- 
dustry. Quoted notes by Mr. Rock. 
58425. MECONOPSIS DELAVAYl. "(No. 9377. September, 1923.) This 
is one of the prettiest blue poppies of the Likiang Snow Range, where 
it grows in moist meadows and on gravelly slopes at altitudes of 11,000 
to 12,500 feet, usually in small groups of twenty or more. The plants 
are 6 to 10 inches in height, with large, drooping, purplish indigo- 
blue flowers." 
58396. meconopsis rudis "(No. 9840. September, 1923. ) A plant 
1 or 2 feet tall which thrives in loose limestone gravel, in company 
with Meconopsis integrifolia, on the Likiang Snow Range at an altitude of 
about 13,000 feet." 
persea Americana (Lauraceae), 58365. Avocado. From San Jose, 
Costa Rica. Seeds presented by Oton Jimenez. "Wild relatives of culti- 
vated fruits are always interesting, not only as serving in some in- 
stances to complete the story of descent from wild to cultivated forms, 
but also as stock plants on which to graft the latter, or to infuse, 
when crossed with them, new and vigorous blood often needed by deca- 
dent cultivated varieties. 
