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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



99576 to 99650— Continued. 



99624. Plumeria obtusa L. 



No. 2570. Plants from Rum Key (black 

 lands), Bahama Islands, January 6, 1932. A 

 tree, native to the West Indies, up to 20 feet 

 high, but often flowering when only 6 feet high. 

 The oblong to obovate leaves are 4 to 8 inches 

 long, and the salverform flowers, 2 inches across, 

 borne in terminal cymes, are white with a 

 yellow eye. 



99825. Plumeria alba L. 



No. 2766. Plants from the island of Mayero, 

 Grenadines. A tree up to 30 feet high, native to 

 the West Indies. The linear-lanceolate sub- 

 coriaceous leaves, 10 inches long, are glabrous 

 above and densely white tomentose beneath. 

 The salver-shaped flowers, 2 inches across, are 

 white with a yellow eye and are borne in com- 

 pact clusters. 



99626. Pothos sp. Araceae. 



No. 2885. Plants from the Aripo Savanna, 

 Trinidad, February 14, 1932. An ornamental 

 vine of great beauty with glossy dark-green entire 

 leaves without variegation. 



99627. PSEUDOPHOENIX SAONAE O. F. Cook. 



Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



No. 2620. Plants from Saona Island, off the 

 southeast coast of the Dominican Republic, 

 January 20, 1932. A tall palm over 25 feet high, 

 with gray-green leaves and great bunches of bril- 

 liant scarlet fruits. It suggests in habit a small 

 Royal palm. 



For previous introduction ?ee 96487. 



99628 and 99629. Ptychoraphis AUGUSTA (Kurz) 

 Beccari. Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



A very tall feather palm from 80 to 100 feet high 

 and 1 foot in diameter at the base. The crown of 

 leaves, 8 to 12 feet long, with leaflets 2 to 3 feet 

 long, makes a most graceful object in a landscape. 

 Native to the Nicobar Islands, India. 



99628. No. 2681. Plants presented by F. G. 

 Harcourt, director, Dominican Botanic 

 Garden, January 29, 1932. 



No. 2877. Plants presented by R. O. 

 Williams, of the Botanic Garden, Trinidad, 

 February 16, 1932. 



Ravenia spectabilis (Lindl.) Engler. 

 Rutaceae. 



No. 2872. Plant presented by R. O. Williams, 

 of the Botanic Garden, Trinidad, February 16, 

 1932. A glabrous shrub, native to Cuba, with 

 opposite trifoliolate leaves and deep-pink to 

 purple-red tubular flowers 1 inch across, borne 

 singly or in few -flowered clusters. 



99631. Rhyticocos amara (Jacq.) Beccari (Cocos 

 amara Jacq.). Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



No. 2702. Plants from Dominica, Leeward 

 Islands. 



For previous introduction of seeds and descrip- 

 tion see 98490. 



99632. Saguerus pinnatus Wurmb. (Arenga 

 saccharifera Labill.). Phoenicaceae. 



Sugar palm. 



No. 3666. Gomuti or mgar palm of the East 

 Indies. Plants from Paramaribo, Surinam, 

 March 3, 1932. A handsome palm 30 to 40 feet 

 high, with immense leaves and enormous bunches 

 of fruit. A rich-flavored palm sugar is made from 

 the sap which flows from the bruised fruitstalk. 

 It also furnishes a valuable black fibrous sub- 

 stance, ejoo fiber, superior in quality, cheapness, 

 and durability to that obtained from the husk 

 of the coconut and renowned for its power to 

 resist moisture. It is used by the natives of the 



99576 to 99650— Continued. 



Indian Islands for every purpose of cordage. 

 Underneath this material is found a substance of 

 soft gossamerlike texture which is exported to 

 China, where it is applied as oakum in calking the 

 seams of ships and more generally as tinder for 

 kindling fire. 



For previous introduction see 75246. 



Elsota diversifolia (L.) Blake (Se- 

 curidaca diversifolia (L.) Blake. Polygalaceae. 



No. 3670. Plants presented by Dr. G. Stahel, 

 Paramaribo, Surinam, March 3, 1932. A trailing 

 or climbing shrub with thick shining oblong to 

 ovate leaves 2 to 6 inches long and racemes of rose- 

 colored flowers. It is native to Central America 

 and the West Indies. 



For previous introductions see 88133. 



99634. Elsota virgata (Swartz) Kuntze. (Se- 

 curidaca virgata Swartz) . Polygalaceae. 



No. 3891. Plants collected on a hillside on the 

 route up to the citadel back of Cape Haitien, 

 Haiti, March 27, 1932. A vinelike shrub with 

 slender wandlike branches 20 feet long, native to 

 the West Indies. The scattered oval leaves are 

 less than 1 inch long, and the numerous small 

 pink and yellow to orange flowers are borne in 

 long slender racemes. 



99635. Smilax sp. Smilacaceae. 



No. 2687. Plant from the Dominican Botanic 

 Garden, January 29, 1932. A rank-growing 

 variegated ornamental bushy shrub. 



Wendl. 

 Palm. 



No. 3668. Plant presented by Dr. G. Stahel, 

 of the experiment station, Paramaribo, Surinam, 

 March 3, 1932. A tall handsome spineless palm, 

 native to tropical South America, bearing small 

 yellow flowers and olive-green fruits. It has a 

 swollen cylindrical trunk elevated on a pyramid 

 of exposed roots, giving it a remarkable appear- 

 ance. The trunk, 35 feet or more high, bears at its 

 summit a crown of large irregularly pinnate leaves. 



For previous introduction see 80773. 



99637. Tradescantia sp. Commelinaceae. 



Spiderwort. 



No. 3881. Plants from the Paramaribo Experi- 

 ment Station, Surinam, March 5, 1932. A very 

 attractive purple form that was growing wild at 

 the experiment station. 



99638. Trimeza martinicensis (Jacq.) Herb. 

 (Cipura martinicensis H.B.K.). Iridaceae. 



No. 2655. Plant from Antigua, Leeward Islands. 



For previous introduction and description see 



SOCRATEA EXORRHIZA (Mart.) 



Phoenicaceae. 



99639. Ixora fragrans (Hook, and Arn.) A. 

 Gray. Rubiaceae. 



No. 2692. Plants presented by F. G. Harcourt, 

 curator, Dominican Botanic Garden, January 29, 

 1932. A good-sized tree that bears masses of 

 delicately perfumed white flowers. 



99640. Colocasia antiquorum Schott. Araceae. 



No. 3737. Plants presented by M. Desire 

 Kervegant, of the Jardin d'Essais, Martinique, 

 March 10, 1932. Malanga Blanc; a white-fleshed 

 variety considered the best-flavored sort grown in 

 the volcanic soil of Martinique. 



99641. Alocasia sp. Araceae. 



No. 3743. Plants presented by M. Desire 1 

 Kervegant, of the Jardin d'Essais, Martinique, 

 March 10, 1932. A very large-leaved form which is 

 beautifully variegated with great irregular patches 

 of almost white tissue on the dark-green leaves. 



