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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



77173 to 77214— Continued. 



showy panicles of white flowers, an inch across, 

 having the stamens covered with pink bristles. 



77174. Beii.sciimiedja tawa (A. Cunn.) T. 

 Kirk. Lauraceae. 



A tall New Zealand forest tree up to 80 feet 

 high and 4 feet in diameter, with alternate 

 lanceolate leaves 2 to 4 inches long and slender 

 panicles of minute flowers followed by dark- 

 purple ovoid fruits an inch long. The wood is 

 white, straight grained, and easily worked, 

 being used for buckets, tubs, casks, etc. The 

 pulp of the plumlike fruit is eaten raw, and the 

 kernels are steamed. 



77175. Brachyglottis repanda Forst. Aster- 

 aceae. 



A treelike composite up to 20 feet high, with 

 wavy-margined leaves 6 inches long, covered 

 with milk-white tomentum beneath. The small 

 heads of whitish flowers are borne in drooping 

 panicles. This variety is said to be poisonous 

 to stock. 



77176. Carmichaelia arborea (Forst. f.) Druee 

 (C. australis R. Br.). Fabaceae. 



A New Zealand shrub up to 9 feet high, some- 

 what resembling Scotch broom, with thin flat 

 green branches taking the place of leaves. The 

 clusters of small pealike lilac-striped flowers are 

 followed by small black pods the sides of which 

 drop off and expose the bright-red seeds sur- 

 rounded by the dark margin of the pod. 



77177. Carmichaelia odorata Colenso. 



A much-branched New Zealand shrub, 3 to 

 10 feet high, leafy in the spring and summer. 

 The slender erect racemes of purple flowers are 

 borne on pendulous branches. 



77178. Chordospartium stevensoni Cheese- 

 man. Fabaceae. 



A leafless New Zealand shrub or small tree 

 up to 20 feet high with long slender pendulous 

 branches and dense racemes of small pea-shaped 

 purple flowers. 



77179 and 77180. Clianthus PUNICEUS (Don) 

 Solander. Fabaceae. Eed parrotbeak. 



A drooping undershrub, native to New 

 Zealand, with dark-green pinnate leaves and 

 long pendulous racemes of bright scarlet flowers. 



77179. A form with white flowers. 



77180. A rosy-flowered form. 



77181 to 77183. Cordyline spp. Liliaceae. 



77181. Cordyline australis (Forst. f.) 

 Hook. Green dracena. 



A tall yuccalike New Zealand plant with 

 clusters of narrowly lanceolate leaves 3 feet 

 long and large loose erect panicles of small 

 palmlike flowers followed by white berries. 



77182. Cordyline banksii Hook. f. 



A yuccalike New Zealand tree much like 

 Cordyline australis, but the leaves are 6 feet 

 long, and the panicles are drooping. 



77183. Cordyline 



Steud. 



indivisa (Forst. f.) 

 Blue dracena. 



A New Zealand yuccalike plant about 

 10 feet high, with thick leathery leaves 

 glaucous beneath, large drooping panicles of 

 white flowers and blue berries; it is usually 

 grown in pots while young as a decorative 

 foliage plant. 



77184. Corynocarpus laevigata Forst. Cory- 

 nocarpaceae. Karaka. 



A large handsome New Zealand tree with 

 oblong evergreen leaves 5 to 7 inches long, erect 



77173 to 77214— Continued. 



panicles of small white flowers, and orange fruits 

 an inch long. The pulp of the fruit is poisonous, 

 but the kernels are edible. 



For previous introduction see No. 67890. 



77185. Dracophyllum strictum Hook. f. 

 Epacridaceae. 



A freely branching New Zealand shrub with 

 erect coriaceous leaves from a sheathing base and 

 tapering to a rigid point, and small terminal 

 panicles of numerous white flowers. 



77186. Dracophyllum subulatuji Hook. f. 

 EpacridE 



An erect New Zealand shrub 2 to 6 feet high, 

 with long slender twiggy branches leafy at the 

 tips; leaves an inch long, subulate with an 

 auricled sheathing base and a sharp point; 

 flowers in small lateral racemes crowded along 

 the branches. 



77187. Elaeocarpus hookerianus Raoul. 

 Elaeocarpaceae. 



A round-headed New Zealand tree with 

 serrate lanceolate leaves, racemes of greenish 

 white flowers, and small blue fruits half an inch 

 long. 



77188. Fagelia sinclairii (Hook.) Kuntze 

 (Calceolaria sinclairii Hook.). Scrophularia- 

 ceae. 



An erect slender New Zealand herbaceous 

 plant with coarsely toothed leaves and branch- 

 ing panicles of small white flowers spotted with 

 purple and having two saclike lips. 



77189. Hymenanthera dentata angustifolia 

 (R. Br.) Benth. Violaceae. 



A rigid much-branched Tasmanian shrub 

 with linear-oblong entire leaves an inch long, 

 small nearly sessile axillary flowers, and small 

 berrylike fruits. 



77190. Libertia grandiflora (B. Rr.) Sweet. 

 Iridaceae. 



A bulbous New Zealand perennial herb 

 somewhat resembling the iris in habit with 

 linear leaves 1 to 2 feet long, and large panicles of 

 small white sisyrinchiumlike flowers borne on a 

 stalk 3 feet long. 



For previous introduction see No. 67002. 



77191. Libertia ixioides (Forst. f.) Spreng. 

 Iridaceae. 



A New Zealand herbaceous perennial with a 

 short creeping rhizome, forming compact clumps 

 like a beardless iris, rigid coriaceous linear leaves 

 a foot long, and large panicles of small white 

 flowers on a stem 2 feet high. 



77192. Melicope ternata Forst. Rutaceae. 



A small New Zealand tree with opposite 

 trifoliolate shining yellowish green leaves and 

 axillary cymes of greenish flowers. 



77193. Melicytus lanceolatus Hook. f. Vio- 

 laceae. 



A slender New Zealand shrub up to 15 feet 

 high, with narrowly lanceolate finely and 

 sharply serrate leaves 6 inches long, fascicles of 

 small flowers, and globose blue-black berries 

 one-fourth inch in diameter. 



77194. Myrtus obcordata (Raoul) Hook. f. 

 Myrtaceae. 



A New Zealand shrub 5 to 15 feet high, with 

 slender spreading branches, fascicled obcordate 

 coriaceous leaves half an inch long, small solitary 

 axillary white flowers, and broadly ovoid dark- 

 red or violet fruits one-fourth inch in diameter. 



