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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



101146 to 101155— Continued. 



101148. NOTOSPARTIUM CARMICHAELIAE Hook. f. 



Pink broom. A beautiful, moderate-sized, le- 

 guminous shrub with leafless, broomlike branches 

 on which the short racemes of pink or purplish 

 flowers are freely produced. It is native to New 

 Zealand. 



101149. Olearia macrodonta Baker. Astera- 

 ceae. 



A shrub or small tree, up to 20 feet high, native 

 to New Zealand. The rigid, coriaceous, ovate, or 

 oblong leaves, 2 to 4 inches long, are glabrous 

 above and covered beneath with closely appressed 

 white tomentum. The small heads of whitish or 

 reddish flowers are borne in large much-branched 

 corymbs. 



101150. Pittosporum dallii Cheeseman. Pitto- 

 sporaceae. 



A round-topped tree up to 18 feet high, native 

 to New Zealand, with sharply toothed, oblong, 

 leathery leaves 2 to 4 inches long and dense, ter- 

 minal, compound clusters of fragrant white 

 flowers half an inch broad. 



101151. Rhopalostylis sapida (Soland.) Wendl. 

 and Drude. Phoenicaceae. Mikan palm. 



A New Zealand palm 30 feat high, with a green- 

 ringed stem, pinnate leaves 14 feet long, and large 

 clusters of pale-pink flowers. 



101152. Rubus schmidelioides A. Cunn. Rosa- 



A scrambling or climbing shrub native to New 

 Zealand. The 3- to 5-foliolate leaves have coria- 

 ceous, broadly cordate-serrate leaflets 2 to 4 inches 

 long, and the small white flowers, in panicles 2 to 

 8 inches long, are followed by pale-yellow edible 

 fruits about one-third inch in diameter. 



101146 to 101155 -Continued. 



101153. Senecio crustu Hort. Asteraceae. 



A name for which a place of publication and a 

 description have not been found. 



101154. Senecio perdicioides Hook. f. Aster- 



A round-topped New Zealand shrub 2 to 6 feet 

 high, with toothed oblong leaves 2 inches long 

 and leafy corymbs of top-shaped yellow flower 



101155. Sophora prostrata J. Buch. Fabaceae. 



A rigid much-branched shrub 2 to 5 feet high, 

 native to New Zealand. The compound leaves 

 are made up of 2 to 4 pairs of very small oblong- 

 ovate leaflets, and the bright-yellow flowers, 

 nearly an inch long, are in clusters of 2 to 3, or 

 solitary. 



101156. Annona RETICULATA L. An- 

 nonaceae. Custard-apple. 



From India. Seeds presented by Rev. A. L. Grey, 

 superintendent, Sind-Baluchistan District, Meth- 

 odist Episcopal Church, Karachi. Received Sep- 

 tember 29, 1932. 



Sita Phal, or custard-apple, 

 variety. 



101157. Phaseolus 

 Fabaceae. 



An excellent local 

 VULGARIS L. 



Common bean. 



From Oslo, Norway. Seeds collected by W. E. 

 Whitehouse, Bureau of Plant Industry. Re- 

 ceived September 20, 1932. 



Introduced for the use of Department specialists. 



