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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



106724 to 106744— Continued. 



106726. Aloe ferox Mill. 



An aloe with a thick stem 10 to 15 

 feet high and a rosette of curved, glau- 

 cous lanceolate leaves 2 feet long by 5 

 inches wide and half an inch thick ; both 

 surfaces are prickly, and the purple mar- 

 gins are armed with large red-brown 

 teeth. The flowering stem is 4 feet high, 

 and the greenish-yellow flowers with 

 smoky tipped segments are 1 to 2 in- 

 ches long. 



For previous introduction see 81118. 



106727. Aloe lineata (Ait.) Haw. 



A red-flowered aloe with lanceolate 

 leaves a foot long in a dense rosette on 

 a stem up to a foot high. The flowers, 

 half an inch long, are in a dense raceme 

 6 inches long, on a simple peduncle about 

 as long as the leaves. 



106728. Aloe microstoma Salm-Dyck. 



A large aloe with an elongated stem 

 bearing a rosette of 20 to 30 sword- 

 shaped leaves 6 to 12 inches long and 

 a dense raceme of greenish-yellow flow- 

 ers on a scape a foot high. 



106729. Aloe saponaria (Ait.) Haw. 



An aloe which grows in cespitose 

 clusters, with ascending oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate leaves 7 inches long, often 

 reddish with pale blotches and with long 

 confluent brown marginal teeth. The 

 red flowers are in a branched inflores- 

 cence 1 or 2 feet high. 



For previous introduction see 81134. 



106730. Aloe striata Haw. 



A low fleshy plant with a dense ro- 

 sette of thick narrowly oblong leaves 

 1 to 2 feet long, obscurely spotted, and 

 bright-red flowers, about an inch long, 

 in 20 or more heads, borne on a stout 

 branched peduncle. 



For previous introduction see 88738. 



106731. Aster fruticosus L. Asteraceae. 



A twiggy bush 2 to 3 feet high and 

 across, with flat linear leaves and blue 

 flower heads. 



106732. Caesalpinia gilliesii (Hook ) 

 Wall. 



Bird of Patradise Tree. A tall shrub or 

 small tree, native to Argentina, with pin- 

 nately compound leaves and terminal ra- 

 cemes of light-yellow flowers from which 

 the brilliant red stamens protrude 3 to 5 

 inches. 



For previous introduction see 76786. 



106733. Ceratotheca triloba E Mey. 

 Pedaliaceae. 



An erect annual plant up to 6 feet 

 high. The obtusely quadrangular stems 

 are hairy, and the coarsely crenate leaves, 

 1 to 6 inches long, vary from broadly 

 cordate and 3-lobed near the base to 

 lanceolate and sparingly crenate at the 

 top of the plant. The solitary axillary 

 flowers, 2 to 3 inches long, ' are lilac 

 streaked with purple, and the loosely 

 pubescent capsules, an inch long, have 

 two horns at the tip. 



For previous introduction see 106079. 



106734. Echinus sp. Aizoaceae. 

 Received under the name "echiyiatus," 



for which a place of publication has not 

 been found. 



106724 to 106744— Continued. 



106735. Erythrina caffra Thunb. Faba- 

 ceae. 



A tree 30 to 40 feet high, with prickly 

 branches, trifoliolate leaves with broadly 

 ovate leaflets, and scarlet flowers borne 

 in dense, many-flowered racemes. Native 

 to southern Africa. 



For previous introduction see 50151. 



106736. Gladiolus alatus L. Iridaceae. 



A very interesting plant with flowers 

 of a delightful fragrance not unlike that 

 of the sweet briar. The three upper pet- 

 als are bright orange scarlet, and the 

 three lower ones are yellowish tipped 

 with orange scarlet. The bulbs are not 

 larger than ordinary peas and cannot re- 

 main long out of the ground. 



For previous introduction see 105284. 



106737. Gladiolus blandus Ait. Iridaceae. 



A South African plant with sword- 

 shaped leaves somewhat shorter than the 

 stem, which is from 6 inches to 2 feet 

 in height and bears 3 to 10 white or 

 reddish-tinged scentless flowers. 



For previous introduction see 105285. 



106738. Glottiphyllum sp. Aizoaceae. 



106739 to 106742. Mesembryanthemum spp. 

 Aizoaceae. 



106739. MESEMBRYANTHEMUM AMOENUM 



Salm-Dyck. 



A low succulent plant with a woody 

 branched stem, green somewhat trian- 

 gular leaves, and reddish flowers. Na- 

 tive to the Cape of Good Hope. 



106740 and 106741. Mesembryanthemum 

 blandum Haw. Figmarigold. 



An erect perennial succulent, 2 feet 

 high, with numerous branches, com- 

 nressed-triangular leaves 2 inches or 

 less long, with minute dots, and pale- 

 rose or white flowers 2 inches across. 

 Native of South Africa. 



106740. A form with pink flowers. 



106741. A form with white flowers. 



106742. Mesembryanthemum speciosum 

 Haw. 



A fleshy shrub about 3 feet high, 

 with distant, turgid-cylindric leaves 

 one-half inch long and large deep-scar- 

 let flowers nearly 2 inches across. Na- 

 tive to the Cape of Good Hope. 



106743. Protea sp. Proteaceae. 

 A form with pink flowers. 



106744. Sckonlandia sp. Aizoaceae. 



Received under the name of "algoense," 

 for which a place of publication has not 

 been found. 



106745. Sempervivum kosaninii 

 Praeger. Crassulaceae. 



From Europe. Plant collected by Dr. Edgar 

 Anderson, Arnold Aboretum Balkan expedi- 

 tion. Received November 1, 1934. 



Peg, Yugoslavia, October 1934. A semper- 

 vivum, native to Macedonia, that forms open 

 rosettes about 2 inches across, with oblanceo- 

 late, glandular-hairy, dark-green leaves, 

 purple "at the apex, and about 1 inch long. 

 The red flowers, three-fourths of an inch 

 wide, arp oroduced on a leafy stem 6 to 8 

 inches high. 



