8 PLANT INVENTORY NO. 137 



130688 to 130718— Continued 



130691. Acacia howitti P. Muell. 



A shrub, often 15 feet high, native to Australia. The branchlets are slender 

 and flexible, bearing curved, lanceolate, dark-green phyllodes and axillary 

 clusters of small yellow flower heads. 



For previous introduction see 75539. 



130692. Acacia myrtifolia Willd. 



A tall shrub with angular branchlets and ovate phyllodes edged with pink 

 and with heads of rather large yellow flowers in racemes. Native to 

 Australia. 



For previous introduction see 76856. 



130693. Acacia pentadenia Lindl. 



A tall shrub with bipinnate leaves of many small leaflets and globular, 

 clustered flower heads. Native to Western Australia. 



130694. Acacia sophorae (Labill.) R.Br. 



An evergreen shrub or small tree with obovate-oblong phyllodia 2 to 3 

 inches long. Native to Australia. 



130695. Acacia stricta (Andrews) Willd. 



A shrub 3 to 6 feet high with linear phyllodia. The paired axillary heads 

 of yellow flowers are borne freely in spring on short peduncles well down from 

 the leafy tips of the branches. The wood is of beautiful texture, sound and 

 durable, but too small for general use. Native to Tasmania and southeastern 

 Australia. 



For previous introduction see 48065. 



130696. Aciphylla sqtjarrosa Forst. Apiaceae. 



A stout erect herbaceous perennial 2 to 6 feet high, with numerous spreading 

 2- to 3-pinnate radical leaves 1 to 3 feet long. The leaflets are very narrow- 

 linear and spiny pointed. The dense spikelike panicle has many umbels of very 

 small greenish-white flowers, almost concealed in the axils of the spiny bracts. 

 Native to New Zealand. 



130697. Baeckea virgata Andrews. Myrtaceae. 



An erect loosely branched shrub up to 12 feet high. Native to Australia. The 

 narrowly oblong leaves, less than 1 inch in length, are opposite, and the small 

 white flowers are in clusters of 2 or 3 in the axils of the upper leaves. 



For previous introduction see 57744. 



130698. Burtonia villosa Meissn. Fabaceae. 



An erect shrub with virgate stems, digitate leaves of 3 small, narrow-linear 

 leaflets, and large solitary, pale-purple flowers. Native to Australia. 



130699 to 130701. Callistemon spp. Myrtaceae. 



130699. Callistemon speciosus (Sims) DC. Showy bottlebrush. 



A large shrub, native to New South Wales, Australia, but cultivated in the 

 British Isles and in the United States. The leaves are lance-shaped with 

 prominent midribs, and the bright-red flowers occur in terminal spikes 2 to 6 

 inches long. The golden-yellow anthers, contrasting with the dark-red fila- 

 ments, make this a beautiful ornamental. It may be grown anywhere except 

 in places subject to frost. 



For previous introduction see 43647. 



130700. Callistemon phoeniceus Lindl. 



A tall shrub with narrowly lanceolate leaves 2 to 4 inches long and spikes 

 of large flowers with rich-red stamens. Native to Australia. 



For previous introduction see 76934. 



130701. Callistemon speciosus (Sims) DC. 



For previous introduction and description see 130699. 



