OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1932 





101260 to 101265— Continued 



the best construction timbers of the islands, as it 

 resists well the action of fungi and sea water, 

 teredo, and white ants. 



101266 to 101270. Oryza sativa L. 

 Poaceae. Rice. 



From Madagascar. Seeds obtained by Percy G. 

 Kemp, American vice consul, Tananarive. Re- 

 ceived October 25, 1932. 



A collection of the principal rice varieties grown in 

 Madagascar, introduced for comparison with the 

 varieties now being grown in this country. 



101263. Be. 



101267. Botry. 



101268. Mena. 



101269. Lava, white, long and thin. 



101270. Vato, a mixed sample of chalky reddish 

 rice. 



101271 to 101291. 



From New Zealand. Seeds purchased from A. 

 Wilkinson, Tauranga. Received July 25, 1932. 

 Numbered in November 1932. 



101271. Aciphylla colensoi Hook. f. Apiaceae. 



A stout erect perennial herb 2 to 5 feet high, 

 native to New Zealand. The numerous radical 

 leaves form a circle of bayonetlike spikes around 

 the base of the stem, each 1 to 3 feet long, pinnate 

 or bipinnate at the base with few secondary, 

 narrowly linear leaflets 5 to 15 inches long, ter- 

 minated by a long stout spine. The small white 

 flowers are in a cylindrical panicle made up of 

 numerous umbels. 



101272. Aeistotelia fruticosa Hook. f. Elaeo- 

 carpaceae. 



An erect or decumbent much-branched shrub, 

 3 to 8 feet high, native to New Zealand. The 

 coriaceous leaves vary from linear to obovate and 

 are entire, crenate, serrate, or lobed. The small 

 flowers are solitary or in small racemes and are 

 followed by small yellowish berries. 



101273. Aeistotelia serrata (Forst.) Oliver. 

 Elaeoearpaceae. 



A small tree 6 to 30 feet high with red bark, 

 native to New Zealand. The thin, membranous, 

 cordate leaves, 2 to 5 inches long, are deeply ir- 

 regularly serrate and are red beneath. The small 

 rose-colored flowers, borne in axillary panicles, 

 are followed by dark-red or almost black berries 

 about the size of a pea. 



101274. Astelia nervosa Banks and Soland. 

 Liliaeeae. 



A stout densely tufted New Zealand perennial 

 often forming extensive masses on swampy 

 grounds in forests. The spreading lanceolate 

 leaves are 2 to 8 feet long with the midrib and 

 several other nerves colored red. The fragrant 

 flowers, borne in large panciles on scapes 1 to 2 

 feet high, are greenish black and are followed by 

 bright orange-yellow berries. 



101275 to 101278. Clematis spp. Ranunculaceae. 



101275. Clematis afoliata J. Buch. 



A perennial with wiry leafless stems, native 

 to New Zealand. The flowers are greenish 

 white, nearly an inch across, and are borne in 

 axillary fascicles of 2 to 5. On young plants the 

 leaves are occasionally developed and consist of 

 a persistent petiole and three minute long- 

 stalked ovate to triangular leaflets. 



101276. Clematis foetida Raoul. 



A stout woody vine, often covering small trees 

 native to New Zealand. The slightly coria- 



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ceous trifoliolate leaves have' ovate to cordate 

 leaflets 1 to 2 inches long, and the small yellow 

 flowers, in large panicles, are strongly odorous 

 but are said not to be fetid. 



101277. Clematis hexasepala DC. 



A smaller and more slender vine than C. 

 indivisa, with pale-green, coriaceous, trifoliolate 

 leaves having ovate-oblong to ovate-cordate 

 toothed leaflets 1 to 3 inches long. The numer- 

 ous flowers, 1 to 2 inches across, have 6 to 8. 

 white sepals. 



101278. Clematis indivisa Willd. 



New Zealand clematis, 



A large woody climber with stout stems often 

 2 to 3 inches in diameter, native to New Zealand. 

 The coriaceous trifoliolate leaves have cordate 

 to linear-oblong leaflets 1 to 4 inches long, 

 usually entire, and the white flowers are 2 to 4 

 inches across. 



101279. Dianella intermedia Endl. Liliaeeae. 



A perennial herb, native to New Zealand, with 

 numerous sword-shaped leaves, 3 feet long, 

 crowded at the base of a scape 2 feet high. The 

 spreading panicle of small purplish flowers with 

 bright-orange anthers is followed by broadly 

 oblong blue berries nearly an inch in length. 



101280. Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jacq. Sapinda- 

 ceae. Hcpbush. 



A native New Zealand small tree or large bush 

 with linear-oblong leaves 1 to 3 inches long. The 

 green flowers, in small terminal panicles, are 

 followed by flat dark-brown winged fruits. The 

 plant is used as a hedge, and the hard wood is 

 valued for making mauls, as it does not split. 



101231. Dracophyllum strictum Hook. f. 

 Epacridaceae. 



A freely-branching New Zealand shrub with 

 erect coriaceous leaves, from a shea hing base, 

 which taper to a rigid point, and small terminal 

 panicles of numerous white flowers. 



101282. Leptopteris 

 Osmundaceae. 



superba (Col.) PresL 

 Fern. 



A fern with a stout rhizome forming an erect 

 caudex 1 to 3 feet high, native to New Zealand. 

 The tripinnatifid fronds, 2 to 4 feet long, are 

 broadly lanceolate, and the closely overlapping 

 linear-oblong pinnules, one half inch long, are 

 pinnatifid almost to the base. 



101283. Leucogenes grandiceps (Hook, f.) 

 Beauverd. Asteraceae. 



A densely tufted perennial herb, 2 to 3 inches 

 high, native to New Zealand. The densely imbri- 

 cated spreading or recurved leaves, one fourth to 

 one third inch long, are obovate-spatulate, flat 

 or concave, and clothed on both surfaces with 

 appressed silvery tomentum. The small flowers 

 are congested into a densely bracteate head. 



101284. Myosotidium hortensia (Decaisne) 

 Basil (M. nobile Hook.). Boraginaceae. 



A stout succulent perennial herb, 1 to 3 feet high r 

 native to the Chatham Islands. The thick 

 fleshy radical leaves, 6 to 12 inches long, are 

 broadly cordate or reniform, and the blue flowers r 

 one half inch across, are borne in dense corymbose 

 cymes. 



101285. Nertera depressa Banks and Soland. 

 Rubiaceae. Beadplant. 



A creeping perennial herb native to the Andes 

 from the Tropics to Cape Horn and to New 

 Zealand. The broadly ovate leathery leaves are 

 one-sixth inch long, and the small greenish 

 axillary flowers are followed by orange berries 

 the size of a pea, which nearly cover the mat oi. 

 foliage. 



For previous introduction see 98040, 



