256 PLANT INVENTORY NO. 165 



241847. Coffea rupestris Hiern Rubiaceae. 



From French West Africa. Seeds presented by the Station Centrale, Boukiko. 

 Received August 12, 1957. 



'Argo'. 



241848. Hyparrhenia rufa (Nees) Stapf Poaceae. Jaragua. 



From Guatemala. Seeds presented by United States Operations Mission, 

 American Embassy, Guatemala City. Received August 12, 1957. 



241849. Avena sativa L. Poaceae. Common oats 



From Australia. Seeds presented by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial 

 Research Organization, Canberra. Received August 12, 1957. 



241850 to 241874. 



From Spain, Italy, France and Portugal. Collected by F. G. Meyer, agricultura 

 explorer, Plant Introduction Section, Crops Research Division, Belts ville, 

 Md. Received August 13, 1957. 



241850. Acacia howittii F. Muell. Mimosaceae. 



Col. No. 4992. Stazione Sperimental di Floricultura 'O. Raimondo', San 

 Remo, Italy. Tree to 20 feet high; leaves soft, linear; flowers yellow. 



241851. Antirrhinum tortuosum Bosc. ex Lam. Scrophulariaceae. 



Col. No. 5014. Villa Roquebrune, Cap Martin, France. Shrub to 4 feet 

 high; leaves linear; flowers pink to lavender. 



241852. Canarina campanulata L. Campanulaceae. 



Col. No. 5024. La Leonina, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France. Tuberous perennial 

 climber; flowers bell shaped to 2 inches long, yellowish, brick-red or purplish 

 brown. 



241853. Cistus albidus L. Cistaceae. White-leaf rockrose. 



Col. No. 4986. Slopes in sparse pine woodland, inland from Cannes, France. 

 Evergreen shrub, white-tomentose; flowers lilac or rose. 



241854 and 241855. Convolvulus mauritanicus Boiss. Convolvulaceae. 



Morocco convolvulus. 



Stazione Sperimentale di Floriculture 'O. Raimondo', San Remo, Italy. 



241854. Col. No. 4994. 'Sabatius'. Creeping perennial, white-silvery 

 throughout ; flowers deep blue. 



241855. Col. No. 4995. More vigorous than the variety 'Sabatius'. 

 Flowers blue against silver background of foliage. 



241856. Dracaena thaliodes Makoy Liliaceae. 



Col. No. 5093. Jardin Coloniale Ultramar's greenhouse, Lisbon, Portugal. 

 Perennial; leaves long petiolate, spathulate, distichous. (Cuttings.) 



241857. Goethea strictiplora Hook. Liliaceae. 



Col. No. 5094. Jardin Coloniale Ultramar's greenhouse. Shrub; flowers 

 red, cauliflorous. (Cuttings.) 



241858. Leonotis dysophylla Benth. Menthaceae. 



Col. No. 5035. La Leonina, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France. Perennial to 5 

 feet high, inflorescense capitate; flowers orange-yellow. 



241859. Lopezia miniata DC. Onagraceae. 



Col. No. 4993. Stazione Sperimentale di Floricultura 'O. Raimondo', 

 San Remo, Italy. Much-branched perennial; flowers small, long, rose-red. 



241880. Melothria hederacea Cogn. Cucurbitaceae. 



Col. No. 5035. Jardin Botanique, Les Cedres, St. Jean, Cap Ferrat, France. 

 Weak-stemmed perennial; leaves hedera-shaped, thick and succulent. 



