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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



124931 to 124951— Continued. 



124933. Allium caeruleum Pall. 



An onion with slender grassy leaves and 

 14-inch stalks, bearing compact spherical 

 heads of small deep-blue flowers. Native to 

 eastern Europe. 



For previous introduction see 110690. 



124934. Allium elavum L. Onion. 



A wild onion with an upright or ascend- 

 ing stem up to a foot high, narrowly linear 

 leaves about as long as the stem, and small 

 greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers in a 

 loose umbel. Native to dry rocky places, 

 especially in chalky soil in south-central 

 Europe. 



For previous introduction see 110640. 



124935. Allium gigan'Teum Regel. 



One of the largest members of the genus, 

 with large bulbs and broad fleshy leaves 

 about 18 inches long. The bright-lilac 

 flower heads, 4 inches across, are on stalks 

 about 4 feet high. 



For previous introduction see 107853. 



124936. Allium karataviense Regel. 



Onion. 



An onion, native to Turkistan. with very 

 ornamental broad leaves of a striking blue- 

 green color and dense umbels of dull-pink 

 flowers. 



For previous introduction see 113879. 



124937. Allium moly L. Lily leek. 



An allium with broad glaucous leaves 

 and a scape 10 to 15 inches high, bearing 

 a compact head of bright-yellow flowers. 

 Native to southern Europe. 



For previous introduction see 110772. 



124938. Allium multibulbosum Jacq. 



An onion from central Europe, closely 

 resembling Allium nigrum, but differing in 

 the numerous spherical bulblets, its broader 

 and shorter leaves, and in certain floral 

 characters. The flowers, entirely wbite or 

 with a reddish central stripe in the petals, 

 are in a dense globular cluster. Native to 

 the meadows in central Europe. 



For previous introduction see 95357. 



124939. Allium sp. 



124940. Allium ostrowskianum Regel. 



A particularly striking species, native to 

 Turkistan. The deep-rose flowers are pro- 

 duced freely in many-flowered umbels on 

 scapes 12 inches high. 



For previous introduction see 91382. 



124941. Allium narcissiflorum Vill. 



An onion, native to Italy, about 9 inches 

 high, with large rose-colored flowers in 

 nodding heads. 



For previous introduction see 95455. 



124942. Allium pendulinum Ten. 



An alpine, native to Italy, with linear 

 keeled leaves and long-peduncled nodding 

 white flowers. 



For previous introduction see 95358. 



124943. Allium flavum var. pulchellum 

 (Don) Regel (Allium pulchellum Don). 



A graceful allium with narrow-linear 

 leaves about a foot long and a loose umbel 

 of bell-shaped, pinkish-lavender flowers. 

 Native to Asia Minor. 



For previous introduction see 117820. 



124931 to 124951— Continued. 



124944 and 124945. Allium rosenbachi- 

 anum Regel. 



A bulbous perennial, native to Turkistan, 

 with oblong lanceolate leaves 6 inches high 

 and a large globular umbel of purple flow- 

 ers on a scape 2 feet high. 



For previous introduction see 95359. 



124944. Tbe type. 



124945. Variety Album. A white-flow- 

 ered form. 



124946. Allium roseum Regel. 

 Variety Grandiflorum. 



124947. Allium schubertii Zucc. 



A large bulbous plant, native to Asia 

 Minor and Persia, with broadly strap-shaped 

 leaves and dull, rose-colored flowers in huge, 

 rather open, subglobose heads, which are 

 at times a foot in diameter. 



For previous introduction see 95457. 



124948. Allium sp. 



Said to have come originally from Iran 

 [Persia]. 



124949. Allium sphaerocephalon L. 



A European onion with a scape 1 to 2 

 feet high, leafy only a third of its length. 

 The half-terete leaves are much shorter 

 than tbe stem, and the bright- or dark- 

 purple flowers are freely borne in globose 

 or ovoid umbels about 1 inch in diameter. 



For previous introduction see 110782. 



124950. Allium ursinum L. 



A wild European onion that grows in 

 large masses in the open woods. When in 

 flower it is very effective, clothing the 

 ground with its broad green leaves, above 

 which the numerous umbels of white flow- 

 ers are borne on scapes a foot high. 



For previous introduction see 110785. 



124951. Allium zebdanense Boiss. and Noe. 



A bulbous plant, 2 feet high, with linear- 

 lanceolate leaves and 3 to 5 white flowers 

 in an umbel. Native to Syria. 



For previous introduction see 79001. 



124952 to 124955. Anacardium occiden- 

 tale L. Anacardiaceae. 



Cashew nuts. 



From Africa. Seeds presented by Mario da 

 Foontoura, Chief of Service. Technical Re- 

 partition of Agricultural Products. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Louren<,o Marques, 

 Mozambique. Received September 29, 1937. 



A collection of ungraded cashew nuts. 



124952. No. 1. 



124953. No. 3. 



From Ribaue. 

 From Inhambane. 



124954. No. 2. From Porto Amelia. 



124955. No. 4. From Quelimane. 

 124956. Abelia. Caprifoliaceae. 



From Glenn Dale, Md. Plants growing at 

 the United States Plant Introduction Gar- 

 den. Numbered in September 1937. 



Variety Edward Goucher. A variety of 

 Abelia grown from a cross between Abelia 

 fjrandiflora and A. schumannii. made at Glenn 

 Dale. Md., by the late Edward Goucher. Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry. Tbe features of both 

 species are effectively combined in this vari- 



