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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



99380 to 99466— Continued. 



lanceolate leaves are 1 to 3 inches long, and the 

 small ilowers, in spikes 1 to 2 inches long, have 

 bright-yellow stamens usually not more than 

 one half inch long. 



99403. Callistemon salignus (J. E. Smith) 

 Sweet. Myrtaceae. 



Received as C. paludosus, which is a form with 

 smaller leaves not over 2 inches long. 



99404. Carissa grandiflora (E. Mey.) DC. 

 Apocynaceae. 



A handsome shrub, native to southern Africa, 

 which is now cultivated in southern Florida and 

 California as an ornamental hedge plant and for 

 its edible scarlet berries. 



For previous introduction see 98222. 



99405. Casuarina cunninghamiana Miquel. 

 Casuarinaceae. Cunningham beefwood. 



A slender-branched leafless Australian orna- 

 mental tree, the so-called beefwood, which has 

 branchlets suggesting horsetails. 



For previous introduction see 90679. 



99406. Chilianthus arboreus (L. f.) Benth. 

 Loganiaceae. 



An erect evergreen shrub 6 to 10 feet high with 

 four-angled or crisply winged branchlets and 

 lanceolate leathery leaves 3 to 4 inches long, 

 smooth above and gray-scurfy beneath. The 

 small cream- white flowers are in small clusters 

 formed into a large lax panicle 8 inches across. It 

 is native to southern Africa. 



99407. Chlorophytum capense (L.) Kuntze 

 (C. datum R. Br.). Liliaceae. 



A perennial herb, native to southern Africa, with 

 a rosette of 12 to 20 bright-green lanceolate leaves 

 1 to 2 feet long, often variegated with white or 

 yellow bands in garden varieties. The large 

 panicle of small white flowers is borne on a stalk 

 3 to 4 teet high. 



COLLETIA CRUCIATA 



Rhamnaceae. 



Gill, and Hook. 

 Anchorplant. 



A shrub 3 to 4 feet high, native to southern 

 Brazil and Uruguay. The elliptic flattened de- 

 current spiny branches have few entire elliptic 

 leaves' and bear the small white flowers in clusters 

 in the axils of the spines. 



). Cordia serratifolia H. B. K. Boragi- 



A tropical tree, native to Campeche, Mexico, 

 with oblong acuminate coarsely serrate leaves 

 nearly 3 inches long and very small white flowers 

 in globular spikes. 



99410. Cowania mexicana D. Don. Rosaceae. 



A shrub 3 to fi feet high, with small crowded 

 cuneate 3- to 7-cleft leaves less than one half inch 

 long and cream-white flowers 1 inch across. It is 

 native to Mexico. 



For previous introduction see 88734. 



99411. Crotalaria candicans Wight and Arn. 



A stiffly erect much-branched shrubby species 

 with hairy and somewhat leathery broadly 

 rounded leaves and panicles of small silky yellow 

 flowers. It is native to southwestern India. 



For previous introduction 



61066. 



99412. Crotalaria polysperma Kotschy. Fa- 

 baceae. • 



A subshrubby densely villous perennial herb 

 1 to 2 feet high, native to the Nile region in Africa. 

 The trifoliolate leaves have obovate-oblong 

 leaflets 1 to 2 inches Ions, and the small blue 

 do:vers are in lax lateral racemes. 



99380 to 99466— Continued. 



99413. Danae racemosa (L.) Moench. Con- 



vallariaceae. 



A much-branched evergreen Persian shrub 3 to 



4 feet high, with alternate lanceolate leaflike 

 cladodes 4 inches long, terminal racemes of small 

 white flowers, and globose red berries. 



For previous introduction see 78677. 



99414. Dimorphotheca ecklonis DC. Astera- 

 ceae. Cape-marigold. 



A robust and erect snbshrub 2 feet or more high, 

 with crowded linear-lanceolate leaves and termi- 

 nal flower heads having rays over 1 inch long, 

 which are white above and purplish below. Na- 

 tive to southern Africa. 



For previous introduction see 81153. 



99415. Dovyalts caffra (Hook, and Harv.) 

 Wart). (Aberia cafra Hook, and Harv.). 

 Flacourtiaceae. Kei-apple. 



A very prickly shrub or small tree, native to 

 tropica] Africa, where it is used as a hedge. The 

 pale-green leaves are over 1 inch long and nearly 

 1 inch wide. The edible fruit resembles a small 

 yellow apple and is so exceedingly acid when 

 fresh that it is said to be used as>a pickle without 

 adding vinegar. 



For previous introduction see 98223. 



99416. Dyckia rariflora Schult. f. Bromelia- 

 ceae. 



A stemless succulent resembling an agave, 

 native to Brazil. The lanceolate stiff spiny- 

 margined leaves, 6 inches long, are in a basal 

 rosette, and the flower stalk, 1 to 2 feet high, bears 

 a panicle of orange flowers about one-third inch 

 long. 



99417. Elaeodendron 

 Zeyh. Celastraceae. 



Eckl. and 

 False-olive. 



An erect shrub native to southern Africa, with 

 leathery ovate leaves 3 inches long and panicles of 

 small white flowers followed by red drupes 1 inch 

 long. The plant has stood 18° F. without injury. 



For previous introduction 



Cyea- 



88346. 



. Encephalartos villosus Lem. 

 daceae. 



A cycad with a short thick woolly and scaly 

 trunk up to 6 feet high, native to southern Africa. 

 The pinnately compound leaves are 6 feet long and 

 are made up of numerous linear-lanceolate, spiny 

 toothed, and sharp-pointed bright-green leaflets 



99419. Enchylaena tomentosa R. Br. Cheno- 

 podiaceae. 



A procumbent or widely branched shrub up to 

 3 feet high, native to Australia. The branches 

 are silvery woolly, the alternate linear leaves are 

 about one-half inch long, and the small flowers 

 develop into fleshy edible red or yellow berries 

 about the size of small peas. 



99420. Felicia abyssinica Schultz Bip. Astera- 

 ceae. 



A low shrubby much-branched perennial 6 

 to 12 inches high, native to the Nile region in 

 Africa. The closely alternate linear entire leaves 

 are less than 1 inch long, and the blue or violet 

 asterlike flowers, 1 inch across, are borne on 

 solitary terminal peduncles 1 to 2 inches long. 



99421. Gmelina leichardtii F. Muell. Ver- 

 benaceae. 



An excellent timber tree, native to Australia. 

 The somewhat leathery ovate leaves, 3 to 6 inches 

 long, are glabrous and rugose above and densely 

 softly tomentose beneath. The small two-lipped 

 flowers, white with purple markings, are borne in 

 loose ovoid terminal panicles. 



