1874 
sunny situation, with rather small rose-purple flowers. It is an ad- 
mirable species for mixed borders. (Adapted from Robinson, English 
Flower Garden, p. 577.) 
indigofera pendula (Fabaceae), 56315. Indigo. From China. Seeds 
collected by J. F. Rock, Agricultural Explorer of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry. "(No. 6798. October, 1922.) An exceedingly ornamental shrub 
10 to 15 feet high, with long racemes of bluish purple flowers, found on 
the Likiang Snow Range at an altitude of 10,000 to 11,000 feet." (Rock.) 
kennedia prostrata (Fabaceae), 56576. From George's Bay, Tas- 
mania. Seeds presented by Dr. Arthur H. Clarke. "Creeping, about 2 
feet long, with pink to scarlet flowers." (Clarke.) 
A prostrate or sometimes twining hairy perennial, with leaves com- 
posed of three roundish leaflets less than an inch long and scarlet 
flowers, usually solitary, nearly three-fourths of an inch long. Na- 
tive to most parts of Australia. (Adapted from Bentham, Flora Austral- 
iensis, vol. 2, p. 250.) 
keteleeria sp. (Pinaceae), 56316. From China. Seeds collected 
by J. F. Rock, Agricultural Explorer of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
"(No. 6321. October, 1922.) A handsome tree 50 feet in height, with 
light-green foliage and long oblong cones, found on the Sungkwe Pass, 
Hoching Range, two day's travel from Likiang, at an altitude of 11,000 
feet." (Rock.) 
LACTUCA sativa (Cichoriaceae ) , 56601. Lettuce. From Tengyueh, 
Yunnan, China. Seeds collected by J. F. Rock, Agricultural Explorer 
of the Bureau of Plant Industry. "(No. 7817.) 'Oh soon. 1 A peculiar 
vegetable of which the thick inner stalk is eaten; this stalk is about 
2$ feet long and 2 inches in diameter, and it is cut into slices and 
boiled. The leaves are discarded, as they are bitter." (Rock.) 
ligustrum spp. (Oleaceae) , 56317 and 56318. Privet. From China. 
Seeds collected by J. F. Rock, Agricultural Explorer of the Bureau of 
Plant Industry. Quoted notes by Mr. Rock. 
56317. ligustrum ionandrum. "(No. 6810. October, 1922.) A very 
compact shrub 10 to 12 feet high, found among limestone bowlders back 
of Nguluke on the Likiang Snow Range at an altitude of 10,000 feet. 
It has elliptical leaves and short terminal clusters of cream-colored 
fragrant flowers." 
56318. ugustrum sp. "(No. 6803. October, 1922.) A tree 40 to 
50 feet high, with a trunk 1 to 2 feet in diameter, which grows along 
watercourses on the Likiang Snow Range at an altitude of 8,500 feet. 
The small fragrant cream-colored flowers are in large panicles." 
