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240107. Dioscorea floribunda Mart. & Gal. Dioscoreaceae. 



Yam. 



From Guatemala. Tubers presented by R. Keilhauer, Guatemala City. 

 Received May 21, 1957. 



240108 to 240120. 



From Sicily. Collected by F. G. Meyer, agricultural explorer, Plant Introduction 

 Section, Crops Research Division, Belts ville, Md. 



Received May 23, 1957. 



Collected at the Botanical Garden, Palermo. May 18, 1957. Cuttings unless 

 otherwise indicated. 



240108. Oreopanax dactylifolius Hort. Araliaceae. 



Col. No. 3971. Evergreen tree to 30 feet high; leaves deeply lobed, green 

 above, rusty-brown beneath, leathery. 



240109. Baccharis rosmarinifolia Hook. & Arn. Asteraceae. 



Col. No. 3967. Small evergreen shrub; foliage with the aspect of rosemary. 



240110. Centaurea verbascifolia Vahl Asteraceae. 



Col. No. 955. Half-woody subshrub to 4 feet high; leaves to 8 inches long 

 and 4 inches wide, green above, white tomentose beneath; flower heads lavender. 

 (Seeds.) 



240111. Ficus capensis Thunb. Moraceae Cape fig. 

 Col. No. 3968. Deciduous tree to 30 feet high. 



240112. Gilibertia cuneata March Araliaceae. 



Col. No. 3946. Evergreen tree to 30 feet high; flowers small, vellowish. 

 (Seeds.) 



240113. Hippobromus alatus Eckl. & Zeyh. Sapindaceae. 

 Col. No. 3969. Evergreen tree to 20 feet high; foliage fernlike. 



240114. Kiggelaria africana L. Bixaceae. 



Col. No. 3965. Evergreen tree to 60 feet high; flowers clustered, small white. 



240115. Apollonias canariensis Nees Lauraceae. 



Col. No. 3966. Much-branched, evergreen tree, forming a round crown; 

 leaves to 5 inches long, aromatic. 



240116. Pachystroma longifolium (Nees) I. M. Johnst. Euphorbiaceae. 



Col. No. 3962. Large evergreen shrub; leaves hollylike, to 5 inches long, 

 spiny. 



240117. Pilocarpus pennatifolius Lem. Rutaceae. 



Col. No. 3961. Small evergreen shrub; leaves pinnately divided, leathery, 

 deep green, lustrous. Source of the drug "Jaborandi." 



240118. Rhus undulata Jacq. Anacardiaceae. 



Col. No. 3970. Evergreen tree to 20 feet high; leaves divided. 

 240119 and 240120. Visnea mocanera Lf. Theaceae. 



240119. Col. No. 3963. Evergreen tree to 30 feet high. (Cuttings.) 



240120. Co . No. 3963a. (Seeds.) 



240121. Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf. Rutaceae. Hardy orange. 



From Australia. Seeds presented by the Division of Horticulture, Department 

 of Agriculture, Sydney, New South Wales. Received May 23, 1957. 



