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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



77540 to 77582— Continued. 



A New Zealand shrub, 2 to 8 feet high, 

 with leathery cordate leaves 1 to 3 inches 

 long and compound axillary and terminal 

 racemes of small white flowers. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 4816G. 



77560. Gaya lyallii (Hook, f.) Baker f. 

 Malvaceae. 



One of the most beautiful of the New 

 Zealand trees, up to 30 feet high, grace- 

 ful and spreading, with the growing parts 

 covered Avith stellate hairs. The cordate- 

 crenate leaves are 2 to 4 inches long on 

 slender petioles, and the large white 

 flowers, an inch across, are borne in 

 axillary clusters. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 481G7. 



77561. Hymenanthera crassifolia Hook, 

 f. Violaceae. 



A low rigid prostrate or erect densely 

 branched shrub, native to New Zealand, 

 with grayish white shiny branches, thick 

 leathery spatulate leaves with entire, sin- 

 uate, or lobed margins, small flowers, and 

 broadly oblong purplish berries. 



77562. Hymenanthera dentata alpina 

 Kirk. Violaceae. 



A New Zealand shrub 1 to 2 feet high 

 forming a densely compact mass of spiny 

 branches, with very small thick leathery 

 leaves, minute flowers, and globose ber- 

 ries. 



77563. Libertia grandiflora (R. Br.) 

 Sweet. Iridaceae. 



A densely tufted herbaceous perennial, 

 native to New Zealand, with stiff leathery 

 linear leaves up to 3 feet long, and a 

 flowering stem as tall as. the leaves bear- 

 ing a branching panicle of white flowers 

 each an inch broad. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 77190. 



77564. Libertia ixioides (Forst. f.) 

 Spreng. Iridaceae. 



A New Zealand herbaceous perennial 

 very similar to Libertia grandiflora, but 

 with the leaves 1 to 2 feet long and 

 the flowers one-half to 1 inch broad. 



77565. Linum monogynum Forst. f. Lin- 

 aceae. Flax. 



A smooth perennial herb 1 to 2 feet 

 high, native to New Zealand, with scat- 

 tered linear-lanceolate leaves an inch 

 long and large white flowers an inch 

 across in terminal corymbs. 



For previous introduction see No. 52371. 



77566. Metrosideros perforata (Forst.) 

 A. Rich. Myrtaceae. 



A tall woody climber., native to New 

 Zealand, with 'sessile leathery ovate to 

 orbicular leaves half an inch long and 

 leafy terminal panicles of small white 

 flowers. 



77567. Myrtus obcordata (Raoul) Hook, 

 f. Myrtaceae. 



A New Zealand shrub up to 15 feet 

 high, with slender spreading branches, 

 opposite leathery obcordate leaves half 

 an inch long, solitary axillary white 

 flowers, and broadly ovoid dark-red or 

 violet berries a quarter of an inch long. 



77568. Nothopanax arboreum (Forst.) 

 Seem. Araliaceae. 



77540 to 77582— Continued. 



A round-headed New Zealand tree up 

 to 25 feet high, with stout brittle 

 bianchos. The five to seven palmately 

 folioate leathery leaves are made up of 

 serrate-oblong leaflets 4 to 7 inches long. 

 The flowers are in broad terminal com- 

 pound umbels and are followed by pur- 

 plish black fruits broader than long and 

 more than a quarter of an inch in diam- 

 eter. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 43590. 



77569 to 77571. Olearia spp. Asteraceae. 



Daisytree. 



77569. Olearia avicenniaefolia (Raoul) 

 Hook. f. 



A small branching New Zealand 

 tree up to 20 feet high, with white 

 tomentose branchlets, alternate entire 

 lanceolate leaves 2 to 4 inches long, 

 and large much-branched corymbs of 

 small cylindrical flower heads. 



77570. Olearia ilicifolia Hook. f. 



A shrub or small tree, 5 to 20 feet 

 high, with a strong mu^ky odor, na- 

 tive to New Zealand. The alternate 

 rigid leathery linear-lanceolate leaves 

 are 2 to 4 inches long and clothed be- 

 neath with thin yellowish white 

 tomentum. The numerous campanu- 

 late flower heads are in large rounded 

 much-branched corymbs. 



77571. Olearia nummularifolia 

 Hook. f. 



A closely branched New Zealand 

 shrub with stout viscid branchlets, 

 alternate coriaceous orbicular leaves 

 half an inch long, and small solitary 

 flower heads. 



77572. Oorisia crosbyi Cockayne. Scro- 

 phulariaceae. 



A slender herbaceous perennial a foot 

 high, native to New Zealand, with radi- 

 cal leaves having petioles 2 inches long 

 and thin oblong blades 1 to 2 inches 

 long. The clusters of three to five small 

 white flowers with yellow throats are 

 borne on slender stems. 



77573. Pachystegia insignis (Hook, f.) 

 Cheeseman (Olearia insignis Hook. f.). 

 Asteraceae. 



A robust spreading New Zealand 

 shrub, 6 to 9 feet high, with stout densely 

 tomentose branches, thick leathery ob- 

 long entire leaves, 3 to 7 inches long, 

 white tomentose beneath, and large 

 hemispherical heads, 3 inches in diame- 

 ter, of white flowers on penduncles a 

 foot long. 



77574. Parsonsia heterophylla A. 

 Cunn. Apocynaceae. 



A tall slender branching New Zealand 

 vine, woody at the base, with coriaceous 

 leaves varying from linear to obovate 2 

 to 4 inches long, and terminal and axil- 

 lary many-flowered cymes of small fra- 

 grant white flowers, followed by cylin- 

 drical pods 6 inches long. 



77575. PlTTOSPORUM CORNIFOLIUM A. 



Cunn. Pittosporaceae. 



A slender sparingly branched epiphytic 

 New Zealand shrub 2 to 5 feet high, with 

 entire coriaceous lanceolate to obovate 

 leaves 2 to 3 inches long and 1-flowered 

 to 3-flowered umbels of small flowers fol- 

 lowed by ovoid capsules which in ripening 

 open and display the orange-colored inte- 

 rior and the black seeds. 



