30 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPOETED. 



49364 and 49365. 



From Blackwood, 8oiith Austi-alia. Seeds presented by Edwiu Asliby, 

 " Wittunga." Received February 9, 1920. Quoted notes by Mr. Ashby. 



49364. Grevillea buxifolia (J. E. Smith) R. Br. Proteacea'. 



"A native of New South Wales, where it grows on rough, sandy land, 

 but it makes a nice shrub in my garden, about 6 feet high. It will stand 

 hard cutting. It flowers freely, tlie flowers being rather more inter- 

 esting than showy. All the flowers are clothed with silky hairs. It 

 should do well in Cnliforna." 



49365. Gbevillea lavandulacea Schlecht. Proteacese. 



"A native of South Australia, where it grows from u foot to 18 

 inches high on a sandy or clayey subsoil, but it seems to prefer broken 

 rocky soil (quartzite). It does very well on rockeries and should be 

 treated as a rock plant (dwarf, hard-wooded shrub). It produces a 

 mass of pink flowers from the beginning of our winter until late spring. 

 It should do well in California, where it will be an acquisition to those 

 who have rock gardens." 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 47189. 

 49366 and 49367. Kicixus communis L. Eiiphoibiacese. 



Castor-bean. 

 From Huatabampo, Sonora. Mexico. Seeds presented by .T. R. Uribe, 

 Hacienda Delia, Rio Mayo. Received February 9. 1920. 



" Samples of the beans which gi'ow wild here." (Uribe.) 



49366. Seeds 18 mm. lung )iy 15 mm. wide; light gray with a few livowa 

 markings. 



49367. Seeds 15 mm. long by 8 mm. wide; light gray, mostly overlaid 

 with dark-brown markings. 



49368. Festuca hookeriaxa F. Muell. Poacese. Grass. 

 iSchedonorus hookerianus Benth.) 



From Sydney, New South Wales. Seeds presented l)y George Valder, 

 undersecretary and director. Received February 9, 1920. 



A stout perennial grass, 2 to 4 feet in height, indigenous to New South Wales, 

 Victoria, and Tasmania. It has flat, rather long leaves, very loose panicles 

 up to a foot in length, and rigid flowering glumes. It stands mowing and 

 pasturing well and is relished by stock. (Adapted from Maiden, Useful l^ative 

 Plants of Atistralid, i). 101, and Benthani, Flora Avstralicnsis, vol. 7. p. (!.',6.) 



49369. Gladiolus ^ialaxgensis Baker. Iridacese. Gladiolus. 



From Ochileso, Aiigola, West Africa. Bulbs presented by H. A. Neipp, 

 American Mission. Received February 6, 1920. 



A West African gladiolus from 1 to 2 feet in height, with three or four erect, 

 linear, rigid leaves and a simple or branched inflorescence. The deep-red 

 flowers are borne in loose spikes 4 to 6 inches long. (Adapted from Bulletin 

 de VHerMer Boissier, 2d ser., vol. 1, p. 867.) 



49370 to 49383. 



From Guatemala. Collected by Wilson Popenoe. Agricultural l^xplorer 

 for the Bureau of Plant Industry. Received February 9, 1920. Quoted 

 notes by Mr. Popenoe. 



