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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



102987 to 103000— Continued. 



102989. Agave orcuttiana Trelease. 



An agave, resembling Agave shawii, 

 with a reclinate trunk sometimes 10 feet 

 Long. Tiir smooth green narrow leaves, 

 6 inches to a foot long, end in a dull 

 gray spine an inch long. The flowers, 3 

 inches long, are in a panicle. 



102990. Agave connochaetodox Trelease. 



A stemless agave with dull pale-green 

 oblancoolate leaves about 10 inches long, 

 ending in a dull-red or ashen spine about 

 2 inches Ions. The flowers are borne on 

 a scape sometimes 10 feet high. 



102991. Agave goldmaniana Trelease. 



With the general aspect of Agave 

 shawii, this plant has a short trunk and 

 ovate-lanceolate, stiffly erect-spreading 

 leaves about 20 inches long, ending in a 

 dull dark-gray spine over an inch long. 

 The deeply funnelform flowers are on a 

 scape 15 to 20 feet high. 



102992. Agave sobria T. S. Brandegee. 



A stout plant with lanceolate leaves, 

 curved outward, ending in a stout spine 

 about 1 inch long. The campanulate 

 orange-yellow flowers are on an erect 

 scape 6 to 12 feet high, the flower panicle 

 occupying more than half its length. 



102993. Agave nelsoni Trelease. 



A stemless cespitose plant with stiffly 

 erect spreading glaucous oblong-ovate 

 openly concave "leaves about 1 foot long, 

 armed with fragile, easily detached mar- 

 ginal prickles and a blackish terminal 

 spine sometimes an inch long. The light 

 yellow flowers are borne in a panicle on 

 a slender scape 12 to 25 feet high. 



102994. Agave margaritae T. S. Brande- 

 gee. 



An agave with a rosette of 40 to 50 

 leaves 4 to 6 inches long, all concave, 

 ending in a terminal spine an inch long. 

 The light-yellow flowers are borne on a 

 scape 8 to 12 feet high. 



102995. Agave vexans Trelease. 



An agave with smooth, gray-green, lin- 

 ear-triangular leaves a foot long, very 

 gradually acute, ending in a dull gray- 

 brown spine about an inch long. The 

 greenish flowers are on a slender scape 

 4 to 6 feet high. 



102998. Agave sebastiana Greene. 



A stemless agave with ascending glau- 

 cous ovate-lanceolate leaves a foot long, 

 tapering into a stout spine 2 inches long, 

 and yellow flowers on a stout scape 6 to 

 10 feet high. 



102997. Agave brandegeei Trelease. 



An agave with grayish, yellow-green, 

 lanceolate, gradually acute leaves about 

 2 feet long, ending in a glossy red-brown 

 recurving spine less than an inch long. 

 The yellow flowers are nearly 2 inches 

 long. 



102998. Agave roseana Trelease. 



A somewhat cespitose succulent with 

 stiffly spreading glaucous, gray-green, 

 broadly lanceolate leaves 6 to 20 inches 

 long, terminating in a purple-chestnut 

 tortuous spine 2 to 3 inches long. The 

 slender scape is 6 to 12 feet high. 



102999. Agave sp. 

 Gates no. 231. 



102937 to 103000— Continued. 



103000. Agave datylio Web. 



A low stemless plant growing in 

 clumps. The rigid straight narrow 

 leaves, 1 to V-k feet long, terminate in a 

 black spine about half an inch long, and 

 the whitish flowers are on a scape about 

 12 feet high. 



103001. Passiflora edulis Sims. 

 Passifloraceae. Purple granadilla. 



From Hawaii. Seeds presented by W. T. 

 Pope, Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Honolulu. Received May 17, 1933. 



Variety flavicarpa. A yellow-fruited pas- 

 sion fruit of large size, with golden yellow 

 juice of exceptionally fine flavor. 



103002. Phoenicophoritjm boksigianum 

 (Koch) Stuntz (Stevensonia gran- 



difolia Duncan). Phoenicaceae. 



Palm. 



From Cuba. Plants presented by Robert M. 

 Grey, superintendent, Atkins Institution 

 of the Arnold Arboretum, Soledad, Cien- 

 fuegos, through F. G. Walsingham. Re- 

 ceived May 22, 1933. 



Seedling plants grown in the Hope Gar- 

 dens, Jamaica. This noble palm, famous 

 for its beauty, is indigenous to the Seychel- 

 les Islands. The mature palm is wholly 

 destitute of spines, whereas in the young 

 state the deep orange-red petioles are 

 clothed with black needlelike spines 1 to 3 

 inches long. The young leaves are orange 

 beneath and mottled with orange spots 

 above. The difference between the young 

 and the mature plants is so great that the 

 uninitiated would consider them different 

 species. The flower spike is from 3 to 6 

 feet long, divided into numerous slender 

 branches, swollen at the base and densely 

 covered above with yellow flowers each 

 about one-fourth of an inch in diameter. 



For previous introduction see 94092. 



103003 to 103014. 



From New Zealand. Seeds presented by A. 

 Wilkinson, Tauranga. Received May 13, 

 1933. 



103003. ACIPHYLLA COLENSOI Hook. f. 



Apiaceae. 



A stout perennial herb 2 to 5 feet 

 high, native to New Zealand. The num- 

 erous 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 sec- 

 ondary narrowly linear leaflets 5 to 15 

 inches long, terminated by a long stout 

 spine. The small white flowers are in 

 a cylindrical panicle made up of numer- 

 ous umbels. 



For previous introduction see 101271. 



103004. Celmisia spectabilis Hook. f. 

 Asteraceae. 



A herbaceous perennial with short stout 

 stems and numerous linear-oblong thick 

 leaves, 6 inches long, covered with sil- 

 very hairs above and densely matted pale- 

 buff wool beneath. The several stout 

 cottony scapes are longer than the leaves 

 and bear white flower heads 1 to 2 inches 

 broad. Native to New Zealand, where 

 it often grows in extensive stands. 



