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48024 to 48034— Continued. 



48030. Limonium fruticans (Webb.) Kuntze. Plumbaginacese. 

 (Statice fruticans Webb.) Sea-lavender. 



A remarkably ornamental shrubby plant, native to the Canary Islands, 

 bearing ample corymbs of bieolored flowers ; the bright-violet calyces and 

 snowy-white corollas, which resemble morning-glories, are made more 

 vivid by the small red bracts and by the bright-green wings of the flower 

 stalks. The stout red stem is ringed, and each red petiole is bordered by 

 the attenuated base of its glossy-green, leathery leaf. The rigid much- 

 branched scapes are about three times the height of the loose rosette of 

 obovate, crisply revolute leaves. (Adapted from Flore des Sevres et des 

 Jardins de VEurope, vol. .' h p. 525.) 



48031. Mackaya bella Harvey. Acanthacese. 



A tall, slender, nearly glabrous ornamental shrub with erect branches, 

 native to Natal. The leaves are sinuate-toothed and veiny. The many- 

 flowered racemes, 4 to 6 inches long, bear masses of pale-lilac campanu- 

 late flowers, nearly 2 inches in length, with the corolla throat delicately 

 penciled with reticulated purple veins. This is perhaps the most beauti- 

 ful of the Acanthacese. (Adapted from Curtis' s Botanical Magazine, pi. 

 5797.) 



Received as Asy stasia bella; this species is now usually referred to 

 Mackaya. 



48032. Semele ajstdrogyna (L.) Kunth. Convallariacese. 



"A most strikingly beautiful climber, of tropical appearance, growing to 

 a height of 10 to 12 meters (33 to 39 feet). I grew this very drought- 

 resistant species for more than 20 years before it produced seeds, and 

 it was also always sterile elsewhere; I think, therefore, that it may 

 interest you to receive a few more seeds, the plant being rare because of 

 its unproductiveness, since the imported seeds from the Canary Islands 

 have never germinated." (Pvoschoivsky.) 



48033. Zanthoxylum alatum planispinum (Sieb. and Zucc.) Rehd. and 



Wils. Rutacese. 

 Kou-hua-chiao. An ornamental shrub or small tree, abundant in rocky 

 places and by the side of streams in China, Chosen, and Japan. It is 

 armed with stout, spreading prickles in pairs, and the handsome leaves 

 are pinnately compound, 3 to 8 inches long, with a conspicuously winged 

 rachis. The small pods are red and warty, disclosing lustrous-black 

 seeds at maturity. (Adapted from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Hor- 

 ticulture, vol. 6, p. 353S, and Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. 2, p. 125.) 



48034. Albizzia lophantha (Willd.) Benth. Mimosacese. 

 "Var. neumanni. A shrub or small tree, native to southwestern Aus- 

 tralia, 6 to 20 feet in height; it is more beautiful than the type. It is 

 of rapid growth and produces enormous nodules on the roots (each nodule 

 weighing up to 1 or 2 pounds). This tree will grow in the poorest soil. 

 It is naturalized in my garden." (Proschowsky.) 



