1957 
feet or more. The linear leaves are bright green above and golden 
yellow beneath, and the purplish red flowers are borne in dense umbels. 
The flowers appear in May and June, and the fruits in early September." 
58402. PRIMULA vinciflora. "(No. 8394. September, 1923.) A plant 
about 15 inches high, which loves moist meadows and shady situations on 
the edges of fir and spruce forests on the eastern slopes of the Li- 
kiang Snow Range at an altitude of about 12,000 feet. The leaves are 
elliptical and dull green, and the large flowers, resembling those of 
Vinca, are a deep indigo blue." 
58405. primula sp. "(No. 9617. September, 1923.) One of the 
earliest primroses of this vicinity, flowering in February on dry grassy 
slopes of the Likiang Snow Range at altitudes of 7,000 to 11,000 feet. 
It is likewise distributed from the Tengyueh Mountains to north of Li- 
kiang and beyond the Yangtze on Haba Shan. The flowers, in dense glo- 
bose heads, are deep blue with a slight purplish tinge." 
trollius ep. (Ranunculaceae) , 58427. From Yunnan, China. Seeds 
collected by J. F. Rock, Collaborator of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
"(No. 9651. September, 1923.) A very showy plant about 2 feet high 
which grows in moist alpine meadows on the eastern slopes of the Likiang 
Snow Range at altitudes of about 12,000 feet, also on Haba Shan, north 
of the Yangtze bend. The leaves are basal, and each plant bears about 
ten large, deep golden-yellow flowers 1 inches or more in width." 
(Rock. ) 
Notes on Behavior of Previous Introductions. 
AMYGDALUS PERSICA (Amygdalaceae ) , 33219. Peach. Var. "Vainqueur." 
From Granada, Spain. "This has now fruited here for two seasons, and 
I like it very much. It grows well, is hardy here, and ripens one week 
after Mayflower and about a week before Greensboro, and in quality is 
as good or better than the latter. It fills in the period between these 
two varieties for my local trade." (Nat. E. Booth, Southold, Long Island, 
N. Y. , March 12, 1924.) 
brassica pekinensis ( Brassicaceae ) , 45969. Pai ts'ai. From Peking, 
China. "We have grown this strain for two years, and not one plant has 
failed to make a head. The heads weigh from 3 to 6 pounds each, and are 
somewhat darker green than the common pai ts'ai. A remarkable thing about 
this strain is that it heads in weather during which cauliflower, head 
lettuce, and all other strains of pai ts'ai fail to develop a marketable 
product." (A. F. Yeager, Agricultural College, N. Dak., February 26, 1924.) 
CHIONANTHUS RETUSA (Oleaceae), 21617. Chinese Fringe Tree. From 
Shantung, China. "A plant of this was received in 1910 and was planted 
