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102342 to 102354— Continued. 



Haiti, March 2, 1933. A stemless but 

 not cespitose agave with dull dark-green 

 broadly lanceolate leaves 3 feet or more 

 long, with small dull-brown spines and 

 narrowly triangular prickles. The golden- 

 yellow flowers are in a dense cluster on 

 a scape 12 feet high. Native to Hispani- 

 ola. 



102343. Anneslia haematostoma (Ber- 

 tero) Britton. Mimosaceae. 



No. 3009. From Watlings Island, Jan- 

 uary 19, 1933. Red anneslia. A hand- 

 some shrub of attractive habit. Its 

 spreading branches are covered with 

 small coriaceous pinnate leaves, and its 

 flowers, with long brilliant red stamens, 

 appear in the spring in clusters re- 

 sembling pincushions. 



102344. Begonia sp. Begoniaceae. 



No. 3024. From near Kenscoff, Haiti, 

 at 6,000 feet altitude. A wild form of 

 scraggly habit, with very small scanty 

 foliage and large, very attractive white 

 flowers tinged with pink. 



102345. Caesalpinia s e p i a r i a Roxb. 

 Caesalpiniaceae. Mysore thorn. 



No. 3027. From near Kenscoff, Haiti, 

 at 6,000 feet altitude, March 3, 1933. A 

 scrambling spiny pubescent shrub, native 

 to India. The compound leaves are made 

 up of 12 to 20 pairs of pinnae, each 

 bearing 16 to 24 oblong leaflets an inch 

 long. The bright-yellow flowers, an inch 

 across, are in simple racemes a foot long. 



For previous introduction see 99694. 



102346. Caesalpinia vesicaria L. Caes- 

 alpiniaceae. 



No. 3020. From Great Inagua, Bahama 

 Islands, February 27, 1933. A small, 

 handsome, loosely branching tree with 

 shining, dark-green compound leaves 

 which have yellow midribs, petioles, and 

 petiolules, giving the foliage a very 

 striking appearance. The attractive red 

 and yellow flowers are in simple racemes. 



102347. Carica papaya L. Papayaceae. 



Papaya. 



No. 3003. From Nassau, April 12, 1933. 

 Small, oblong fruits of excellent flavor, 

 each of which contains a small, em- 

 bryonic fruit. 



102348. Cephalocereds bahamensis 

 Britton. Cactaceae. 



No. 3011. Dildo. From the north side 

 of Crooked Island, Bahama Islands, Feb- 

 ruary 20, 1933. A large handsome 

 columnar cactus with spreading branches, 

 found on solid coral rock. The cream- 

 white flowers, which smell like garlic, are 

 followed by small round reddish fruits 

 with black seeds. 



102349. Cephalocereus millspaughii 

 Britton. Cactaceae. 



No. 3015. From Mariguana. Bahama 

 Islands, February 24, 1933. A large 

 cactus with branching stems, 6 to 20 

 feet high, sometimes 8 inches thick at the 

 base of the trunk. It has 8 to 13 ribs, 

 and a score of acicular brown-yellow 

 spines about 2 inches long rise from each 

 gray-brown areole. The rather stiff, 

 greenish flowers, white within and less 

 than an inch long, are succeeded by 

 small reddish globose fruits. Native to 

 the Bahama Islands. 



102342 to 102354— Continued. 



102350. Clerodendrum speciosum Teijsm. 

 and Binn. Verbenaceae. 



No. 3034. From Hope Gardens, Kings- 

 ton, Jamaica, March 7, 1933. An orna- 

 mental vine with a profusion of dull-red 

 flowers borne continuously during the 

 summer months. The slender woody 

 stems are slightly angled, and the dark- 

 green, oblong-cordate or elliptic leaves 

 are 4 to 6 inches long. Said to be a 

 hybrid between G. thompsonae and G. 

 splendens. 



102351 and 102352. Lucuma domingensis 

 Gaertn. f. Sapotaceae. 



102351. No. 3021. From the Ameri- 

 can Legation compound, Port-au- 

 Prince, Haiti, March 1, 1933. The 

 Juane d'oeuf, with small round fruits 

 over an inch in diameter, which 

 closely resembles the Canistel in tex- 

 ture and flavor of its fruit. 



102352. No. 3031. Presented by a 

 student in the School of Agricul- 

 ture at Damien, Haiti, March 3, 

 1933. A variety with oblong or 

 pear-shaped fruits with a different 

 skin texture, slightly pointed seed, 

 and rather stickier flesh than no. 3021 

 [1023511. This may indicate a 

 variability in the seedlings of this 

 species. 



102353. Passiflora rubra L. Passi- 

 floraceae. 



No. 3001. A softly pubescent vine 

 with crescent-shaped cordate leaves 2 to 

 4 inches broad, green-white flowers 2 

 inches across, and red fruits 2 inches 

 long. It is native to the West Indies. 



For previous introduction see 97966. 



102354. Thrinax sp. Phoenicaceae. 



Palm. 



No. 3041. From Bath, Jamaica. 



102355. Carica papaya L. 

 ceae. 



Papaya- 

 Papaya. 



From Guatemala. Seeds presented by 

 Manuel Pacheco H., Director General of 

 Agriculture, Guatemala City. Received 

 March 27, 1933. 



A locally grown red variety. 



102356 to 102362. 



From the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- 

 publics. Seeds presented by the Insti- 

 tute of Forest Culture, Moscow, through 

 A. Albenskv, chief, Acclimatization De- 

 partment. Received March 28, 1933. 



102356. Asparagus sp. Convallariaceae. 



A wild form from Alazan Kachetia, 

 Caucasus. 



102357. Caragaxa arborescens cunei- 

 folia (Dipp.) C. Schneid. {C. amuren- 

 sis Hort.). Fabaceae. 



A dwarf form of the well-known Si- 

 berian pea-tree with the leaflets quite 

 uniformly wedge-shaped and the flowers 

 on shorter stalks. This form was origi- 

 nally described from Dahuria and Mon- 

 golia. 



102358. Crataegus dolichocarpa Hort. 

 Malaceae. Hawthorn. 



A name for which a place of publica- 

 tion and a description have not been 

 found. 



