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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



77216. Trichilia emetica Vahl. Me- 

 liaceae. 



From Lourenco Marquez, Mozambique. Seeds 

 obtained through Eugene M. II inkle, United 

 States vice consul in charge. Received June 30, 

 1928. 



A tropical African tree with pinnately compound 

 leaves of 7 to 11 oblong leaflets 3 to 6 inches long, 

 clusters of greenish flowers, and globose fruits an 

 inch in diameter. An oil, used in cooking and" for 

 soap making, is obtained from the seeds. 



For previous introduction see No. 58128. 



77217 to 77252. 



From Kirstenbosch, Newlands, Cape Province, 

 Africa. Seeds presented by R. H. Compton, 

 Director of the National Botanic Gardens. 

 Received June, 1928. 



77217 to 77220. Aloe spp. Liliaceae. 



77217. Aloe ferox Mill. 



A South African perennial with a thick 

 stem 10 to 15 feet high and a rosette of curved 

 glaucous lanceolate leaves 2 feet long by 5 

 inches wide and half an inch thick. The 

 upper and lower surfaces are prickly, and the 

 purple margins 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 inches long 



77218. Aloe longistyla Baker. 



A stemless South African perennial with a 

 dense rosette of about 30 lanceolate green 

 leaves 6 inches long tapering to a horny point 

 and having a pale-brown prickly margin. 

 The bright-red tubular flowers are borne in a 

 dense raceme 3 to 5 inches long. 



77219. Aloe yariegata L. 



A South African perennial with a leafy 

 stem 6 to 9 inches high. The triangular 

 ascending leaves, 2 to 5 inches long, in three 

 close oblique ranks, are green crossed by 

 bands of elongated white blotches and have 

 white, scarcely serrate margins. The flower- 

 ing stem is about a foot high, bearing a 

 raceme of red tubular flowers 1 to 2 inches 

 long. 



77220. Aloe sp. 



A succulent-leaved perennial with red or 

 yellow tubular flowers. 



77221. Cbotalabia capexsis Jacq. Fabaceae. 



A stout much-branched South African shrub 

 4 to 5 feet high, with digitately 3-foliolate to 5- 

 foliolate leaves of broadly ovate leaflets an inch 

 long and axillary or terminal racemes of bright- 

 yellow flowers an inch long. 



For previous introduction see No. 64058. 



77222. Geebera jamesoni Bolus. Asteraceae. 



A hairy South African herbaceous perennial 

 with petioled laciniate radical leaves a foot long 

 and heads of showy orange-colored ray flowers 

 on stalks 1 to 2 feet high. 



For previous introduction see No. 66837. 



77223. Gladiolus callisttjs Bolus f. Iridaceae. 



An ornamental bulbous South African peren- 

 nial with four to seven narrowly sword-shaped 

 leaves 1 to 2 feet long and a 1-branched to 3- 

 branched stalk 3 feet high, bearing white flowers 

 with suffused pink. 



For previous introduction see No. 64653. 



77224. Gladiolus tristis L. Iridaceae. 



For previous introduction and description see 

 No. 76689. 



77217 to 77252— Continued. 



77225. Leucadexdrox repexs L. 

 lifera Thunb.). Proteaceae. 



(Protea mel- 



A large South African shrub up to 8 feet high, 

 with linear-oblanceolate leaves 4 inches long and 

 large heads of whitish flowers surrounded by 

 dark-red to whitish bracts having rosy pink 

 margins and tips. 



For previous introduction see No. 36062. 



77226 to 77239. Mesembeyaxthemum spp. 

 Aizoaceae. 



77226. Mesembeyaxthemum caeoli L. 

 Bolus. 



A decumbent South African perennial 

 with connate triangular glaucous green 

 leaves 2 to 5 inches long and cymes of rosy 

 purple flowers an inch in diameter. 



77227. Mesembryaxihemum cixctum L. 

 Bolus. 



A South African perennial with decum- 

 bent branches, erect triangular leaves an inch 

 long with recurved tips, and solitary flowers 

 an inch across with rosy petals having pur- 

 plish dotted margins. 



77228. Mesembbyaxihemum cordifolium 

 L. f. 



A diffuse-stemmed South African peren- 

 nial 1 to 2 feet long, with opposite cordate 

 leaves somewhat papillose and solitary purple 

 daisy like flowers. 



77229. Mesembryaxihemum crixiflorum 

 L. f. 



A South African nearly stemless perennial 

 with flat obovate leaves and peduncles 3 

 inches long, bearing pale rose-colored, red, or 

 whitish flowers. 



77230. Mesembryaxihemum diveesifolium 

 Haw. 



A South African herbaceous perennial 

 with a short stem, semioylindrical leaves 1 to 3 

 inches long gathered into a head, and daisy- 

 like yellow flowers. 



77231. Mesembeyaxthemum laxum Willd. 



A slender diffuse South African shrub with 

 creeping branches, connate flatly 3-angled 

 leaves, and reddish flowers. 



77232. Mesembryaxihemum lique N. E. 

 Brown. 



An erect South African perennial a foot 

 high, with spreading branches, distant 

 opposite cylindrical leaves half an inch long, 

 one erect and the other deflexed in each pair. 

 The purplish red flowers an inch across are 

 solitary on short peduncles. 



77233. Mesembryaxihemum maximum 

 Haw. 



An erect shrubby South African perennial 

 with large crowded triangularly half-moon 

 shaped glaucous leaves and small reddish 

 flowers. 



77234. Mesembeyaxthemum pugioxiforme 

 L. 



An upright South African succulent with 

 linear-falcate leaves 6 to 8 inches long in thick 

 tufted rosettes from which arise the flower 

 stems bearing one to three malodorous 

 yellow flowers 3 inches across, opening in the 

 afternoon. 



For previous introduction see No. 42447. 



77235. Mesembeyaxthemum putterillii 

 Hort. 



A South African succulent. 



