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103003 to 103014— Continued. 



103005. Dahlia merckii Lehm. Astera- 

 ceae. Bedding dahlia. 



A single-flowered dahlia, 2 to 3 feet 

 high, with bipinuate leaves and flowers 

 typically lilnc in color. This dahlia 

 comes true from seed. 



103006. Entelea arborescens R. Br. 

 Tiliaceae. 



A New Zealand shrub or small tree -'0 

 foot high, with the growing parts cov- 

 ered with soft stellate hairs. The alter- 

 nate cordate leaves, nearly a foot across, 

 are on petioles S inches long, the white 

 flowers, an inch in diameter, are in erect 

 cymes, and the globose pods are covered 

 with long rigid bristles. 



103007. Geranium traversii Hook. f. 

 Geraniaceae. Cranesbill. 



A perennial herb with decumbent or 

 prostrate stems 1 to 2 feet long, native 

 to New Zealand. All parts of the plant 

 are covered with silvery hairs. The 

 nearly orbicular leaves, 1 to 3 inches 

 across, have 5 to 7 lobes, and the radical 

 leaves have petioles up to 9 inches long. 

 The white or pink flowers, 1 inch wide, 

 are borne on slender peduncles 1 to 4 

 inches long, with two acuminate bracts at 

 the middle. 



103008. Hebe Formosa (R. Br.) Cock- 

 ayne (Veronica formosa R. Br.). 

 Scrophulariaceae. 



A glabrous evergreen shrub 2 to 4 

 feet high, native to Tasmania. The 

 thick lanceolate entire leaves are about 

 1 inch long, and the pale-lilac flowers are 

 borne in short racemes in the axils of the 

 upper leaves. 



103009. Hebe venustula (Colenso) 

 Cockayne (Veronica venustula Co- 

 lenso). Scrophulariaceae. 



A small compact shrub 6 to 9 inches 

 high, native to New Zealand. The ob- 

 long-ovate leathery leaves, less than 1 

 inch long, are close-set on the branches, 

 and the small white flowers are in ter- 

 minal much-branched racemes. 



103010. Leucogenes leontopodium 

 (Hook, f.) Beauvard. Asteraceae. 



A much-branched dwarf perennial, 

 woody at the base, 2 to 8 inches high. 

 The linear-lanceolate, densely imbricated 

 leaves are three- fourths of an inch long, 

 and the small densely woolly flower heads 

 are borne in compact clusters of 8 to 

 15. The plant has the same aspect as 

 the edelweiss of the European Alps. 



103011. Myosotidium hortensia (De- 

 caisne) Baill. (M. nobile Hook.). 

 Boraginaceae. 



A stout succulent perennial herb, 1 to 

 R feet high, native to the Chatham 

 Islands. The thick fleshy radical leaves, 

 6 to 12 inches long, are broadly cordate 

 or reniform, and the blue flowers, one- 

 half inch across, are borne in dense 

 corymbose cymes. 



For previous introduction see 101284. 



Asteraceae. 



Daisytree. 



103012. Olearia sp. 



A mixture of species native to Tas- 

 mania. The olearias are evergreen trees 

 or shrubs of the Australian region with 

 flowers like the asters, to which they 

 are closely related. 



103003 to 103014— Continued. 



103013. Petrophila biloba R. Br. Pro- 

 teaceae. 



A shrub with slender villous branch- 

 lets, native to Western Australia. The 

 leathery leaves are pinnately divided into 

 four rhomboid sharp-pointed lobes about 

 one-half inch long, and the small flowers 

 are borne in ovoid conelike spikes about 

 one-fourth of an inch long, crowded along 

 the branchlets. 



103014. (Undetermined.) 



103015. Epidendeum vitellinum Lindl. 

 Orchidaceae. 



From Baja California, Mexico. Plants 

 presented by Waldo S. Schmidt, United 

 States National Museum, Washington, 

 D. C. Received May 24, 1933. 



An orchid, native to Mexico, with ovoid 

 pseudobulbs 2 inches long, each bearing 1 

 to 3 leaves 6 to 9 inches long. The cinna- 

 bar-red flowers with orange lips are borne 

 in 10- to 15-flowered racemes on peduncles 

 1 to 2 feet long. 



103016. Passifloea edtjlis Sims. Pas- 

 sifloraceae. Purple granadilla. 



From Brazil. Seeds presented by P. H. 

 Rolfs, Rio de Janeiro. Received May 19, 

 1933. 



Seed from fruits over an inch in diam- 

 eter, purchased in a confectionery store at 

 Curatyba, Parana, Brazil, April 22, 1933. 



103017 and 103018. 



From the Galapagos Islands. Seeds pre- 

 sented by W T aldo S. Schmitt, United 

 States National Museum, Washington, 

 D. C. Received May 25, 1933. 



103017. Cassia sp. Caesalpiniaceae. • 



103018. Viguiera sp. Asteraceae. 



From Duncan Island. The viguieras 

 are tropical shrubs, or subshrubs, related 

 to the sunflowers, with the rather small 

 flower heads in ample corymbs. 



103019. (Undetermined.) 



From the Union of South Africa. Seeds 

 presented by a Mr. Breslin, of Victoria. 

 Received May 25, 1933. 



Introduced for testing by Department 

 specialists as a possible source of rubber. 



103020. Aeeca sp. Phoenicaceae. 



Palm. 



From Cuba. Seeds presented by Robert M. 

 Grey, superintendent, Atkins Institution 

 of the Arnold Arboretum, Soledad, C'en- 

 fuegos, through F. G. Walsingham. Re- 

 ceived May 26, 1933. 



The arecas are graceful spineless palms 

 with attractive pinnate leaves. 



103021. Cinchona sp. Rubiaceae. 



From the British West Indies. Seeds pre- 

 sented by F. T. Landale, Jamaica, 

 through Col. Victor E. Ruehl, Caldwell, 

 N. J. Received May 24, 1933. 



103022. Cinchona sp. Rubiaceae. 



From Guatemala. Seeds presented by the 

 American consul general, Guatemala 

 City, through Col. Victor E. Ruehl. Cald- 

 well, N. J. Received May 25, 1933. 



