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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



103155 to 103173— Continued. 



leaves, which become 4 to 8 feet long, 

 have whitish petioles and greenish white 

 veins when the plants are young. 



For previous introduction see 96484. 



103164. Linoma alba (Bory) O. F. Cook 

 (Dictyosperma alba Wendl.). 



"Variety aurea. A form which differs 

 from the type in having yellow or orange 

 petioles on the young plants. 



103165. Livistona decipiens Beccari. 



A fan palm of medium height and a 

 trunk diameter of about 16 inches. The 

 leaves are made up of about 50 segments 

 which are very weak at the tips, hang- 

 ing as though wilted. It is native to 

 South Australia. 



103166. Livistona subglobosa (Hassk.) 

 Mart. 



A medium-sized palm, native to Java, 

 with palmately divided leaves having seg- 

 ments 10 to 12 inches long, which are two- 

 parted nearly to the base into linear pen- 

 dulous lobes. The deep-violet fruits, one- 

 half inch in diameter, are borne in a pan- 

 icle on a spadix about a foot long. 



For previous introduction see 93414. 



103167. LOROMA CUNNINGHAMIANA 



(Wendl.) O. F. Cook (Archotitophoenix 

 cunning Jiamiana Wendl. and Drude). 



A palm 70 to 80 feet high, native to 

 Australia. The pinnately divided leaves, 

 green on both sides, are several feet long, 

 and the segments are acuminate and 

 entire. 



103168. Martinezia truncata Brongn. 



A palm, native to Bolivia, with a trunk 

 up to 20 feet high, covered with brown- 

 black spines. Tbe pinnately divided 

 spreading leaves, 4 to 5 feet long, are 

 dark green with prominent veins. 



103169. Oncosperma filamentosum 

 Blume. 



The JVibung is a cluster palm of great 

 beauty which rises to a height of 50 f^et 

 and waves its pinnate leaves in the slight- 

 est breeze. Like its relative, Oncosperma 

 fasciculatum, it is a spiny palm and there- 

 fore not suited to small gardens. Great 

 clumps of this palm are wonderfully ef- 

 fective, however, in a proper setting. 

 Native to the Malay Archipelago. 



For previous introduction see 94091. 



103170. Pinanga kuhlii Blume. 



A stout rapid-growing palm native to 

 the lower altitudes of western Java, be- 

 coming 16 to 25 feet high, with annulate 

 stems 2 inches in diameter, reddish when 

 young, and beautiful terminal fronds with 

 pinnato blades 4 feet long and half as 

 wide. This is one of the hardiest species 

 of Pinanga known. 



For previous introduction see 97287. 



103171. Ptychococcds paradoxus 

 (Scheff.) Beccari. 



A slender palm, native to New Guinea, 

 with a trunk 9 to 12 feet high, covered 

 with dense white tomentum. The regu- 

 larly pinnately divided leaves have 6 to 

 15 broadly lanceolate segments with ob- 

 liquely truncate tips. 



103155 to 103173— Continued. 



103172. TlLMIA CARYOTAEFOLIA (H. B. K.) 



O. F. Cook (Martinezia caryotaefolia 

 H. B. K.). 



A beautiful slender straight- stemmed 

 spiny-trunked palm up to 30 feet high, 

 with graceful pinnate leaves and bright 

 orange-scarlet fruits borne in drooping 

 racemes. 



For previous introduction see 102618. 



103173. Veitchia joannis Wendl. 



A palm with pinnate leaves, native to 

 the Fiji Islands. The leaf segments have 

 a wide shallow notch at the apex, the 

 sheath, petiole, and rachis are dull red, 

 and the ellipsoid fruits, 2 to 3 inches long, 

 are orange with a red base. 



103174 to 103357. 



From southwestern China and Tibet. Seeds 

 collected by Dr. J. F. Rock, agricultural 

 explorer, for the University of California 

 Botanical Garden expedition, and pre- 

 sented through Dr. T. H. Goodspeed, De- 

 partment of Botany, University of Cali- 

 fornia, Berkeley, Calif. Received June 26, 

 1933. 



103174. Andromeda sp. Ericaceae. 



No. 22335. From the Tjonatong Moun- 

 tains, Upper Salwin River, Tsarung Prov- 

 ince, southeastern Tibet, at 14,500 feet 

 altitude. A shrub a foot high, found 

 among rocks. 



103175. Anemone narcissifolia L. Ran- 

 unculaceae. 



No. 23551. From Mount Moting, east 

 of Atuntze, Yunnan, in alpine meadows 

 at 11,500 feet altitude. A stout herba- 

 ceous perennial with stalky, 3- to 5-parted, 

 deeply cut basal leaves, sessile involucral 

 leaves, and an umbel of several white 

 flowers an inch across, with yellow 

 anthers. It is native to Europe and Asia. 



For previous introduction see 100151. 



103176 and 103177. Aquilegia oxtsepala 

 Trautv. and Mey. Ranunculaceae. 



Columbine. 



A hardy herbaceous perennial having 

 more or less square flowers with four 

 points ; the flowers vary from purplish 

 red to blue, yellow, and white. 



For previous introduction see 68407. 



103176. No. 23610. From Tsarong in 

 the Kaakerbo Mountains, west of 

 Dikerla and Yundshi, southeastern 

 Tibet, in alpine meadows at 11,000 

 feet altitude. 



103177. No. 24428. Collected north of 

 Kulu in the Yetsi Mountains in 

 Muli Territory, Szechwan, in a val- 

 ley at 10,000 feet altitude. The 

 flowers are purplish red. 



103178. Artemisia sp. Asteraceae. 



No. 23541. From grassy slopes in the 

 Mekong Valley in the Moting Mountains, 

 east of Atuntze, Yunnan, at 9.000 feet 

 altitude. An herb with yellow flowers. 



103179. Asparagus sp. Convallaria- 

 ceae. 



No. 24571. Collected between Muli and 

 Kulu, Szechwan. at 9,000 feet altitude. 

 A prostrate spreading shrub 2 feet high 

 with pinkish flowers. 



