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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



77884 to 77951— Continued. 



77885 to 77894. Aloe spp. Liliaceae. 



77885. Aloe andrixgitrensis Perrier. 



Botanic Garden, Tananarive, Sep- 

 tember 28, 1928. A stemless aloe, 

 native to central Madagascar, with a 

 rosette of 12 to 18 subfalcate leaves 

 about 17 inches long. The leaves 

 have homy margins and are armed 

 with very small marginal spines. 

 The dark orange-colored flowers are 

 in dense racemes about 4 inches long. 



77886. Aloe capitata Baker. 



Botanic Garden, Tananarive, Sep- 

 tember 28, 1928. An ornamental 

 succulent with lanceolate leaves, less 

 than 2 inches wide, narrowed gradu- 

 ally upward, and margined with 

 spreading deltoid prickles. The yel- 

 low flowers are in headlike racemes 

 of 30 or more flowers, on a peduncle 

 less than a foot long. The inflor- 

 escence resembles that of Aloe sa~ 

 ponaria. 



77887. Aloe capitata quartziticola 

 Perrier. 



Botanic Garden, Tananarive, Sep- 

 tember 28, 1928. A stemless succu- 

 lent plant with rather short thick 

 leaves about 19 inches long, armed 

 with stout red spines about two- 

 fifths of an inch long. The yellow 

 flowers are in a short dense head. 

 This variety is native to quartzite 

 regions in Madagascar. 



77888. Aloe vaombe Decorse. 



Botanic Garden, Tananarive, Sep- 

 tember 28, 1928. A large fleshy 

 plant, native to sandy places in 

 southwestern Madagascar. It be- 

 comes as much as 25 feet high, with 

 incurved reddish spiny leaves up to 

 4 feet long and reddish-orange flow- 

 ers in an erect head of 50 to 70 

 flowers. 



77889. Aloe sp. 



Between Betroka and Ihosy, Sep- 

 tember 19, 1928. Plant about 3 feet 

 and inflorescence about 11 inches. 



77890. Aloe sp. 



La Table, Tullear, August 7, 1928. 



77891. Aloe sp. 



Ampanihy, September 3, 1928. 



77892. Aloe sp. 



Ampanihy, September 3, 1928. 



77893. Aloe sp. 



Diego Suarez, Montagne des Fran- 

 gais, October 7, 1928. 



77894. Aloe sp. 



Mont Vatomavy, Ambositra, July 

 23, 1928. 



77895. Aristolochia acuminata Lam. 

 Aristolochiaceae. 



La Table, Tullear, August 2, 1928. 

 A vigorous ornamental vine native to 

 the East Indies. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 53612. 



77896. Assoxia sp. (Dombeya sp.). 

 Sterculiaceae. 



Valley of Fiherenana, August 3, 

 1928. An ornamental shrub or small 

 tree native to Madagascar. 



77884 to 77951— Continued. 



77897. Bapiiia capparidifolia Baker. 

 Fabaceae. 



No. 4026. Mananika, near Maevata- 

 nana, July 6, 1928. A shrub or tree, 

 native to Madagascar, with slender 

 branchlets, simple lanceolate leaves 2 

 lo 3 inches long, and cymes of yellow 

 flowers half an inch across. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 77321. 



77898. Citrus grandis (L.) Osbeck. 

 Rutaceae. Grapefruit. 



July 13, 1928. A variety with pink- 

 fleshed fruits, about 20 inches in cir- 

 cumference, obtained in the market at 

 Tananarive. 



77899. Citrus sp. Rutaceae. 



Ivolena Experiment Station, Tama- 

 tave, October 2, 1928. Vioungy. Said 

 to be an indigenous citrus plant. 



77900. Combretum sp. Combretaceae. 



Diego Suarez. Montagne des Fran- 

 cais. October 7, 1928. A climbing 

 shrub with bright-red flowers. 



77901 to 77904. Crtptostegia madagas- 

 cariexsis Bojer. Asclepiadaceae. 



Madagascar rubbervine. 



An important rubber plant occurring 

 throughout a large portion of western 

 Madagascar. There seems to be con- 

 fusion between this and Cryptostegia 

 grandiflora, which apparently is a 

 more or less cosmopolitan species but 

 which in Madagascar occurs only in 

 the region south of Tullear. This 

 plant is a shrub about 3 feet high, but 

 occasionally it develops into a climber. 

 The fibers of the plant are employed in 

 making fishlines, and the Sakalavas 

 recognize the plant as a source of an 

 excellent cloth. 



77901. Diego Suarez, Montagne des 

 Francais, October 7, 1928. Lom- 

 bira. 



77902. Andrahana village, north of 

 Androka, August 24, 1928. 



77903. Andrahana village, north of 

 Androka, August 24, 1928. 



77904. Upper Valley of Fiherenana, 

 August 2, 1928. 



77905. Euphorbia 



Euphorbiaceae. 



Beharahaka, between Androka and 

 Ampanihy, August 29, 1928. Hara- 

 baka. A tree about 25 feet high, with 

 a large amount of latex which contains 

 some rubber. This was the largest 

 Euphorbia seen in Madagascar. 



77906. Goxocrypta sp. Asclepiadaceae. 



North of Tullear. August 6, 1928. 

 A rubber-bearing vine very different 

 from kompitso of Ampanihy and Be- 



hara. 



77907 to 77917. Kalanchoe spp. Cras- 

 sulaceae. 



77907. Kalaxchoe daigremoxtiaxa 

 Hamet and Perrier. 



Botanic Garden, Tananarive, Sep- 

 tember 28, 1928. A brownish-green 

 succulent perennial native to Mada- 

 gascar, becoming about 2 feet high. 

 The leaves are petiolate, sometimes 

 peltate, and the small deep-pink 

 flowers are in lax terminal panicles. 



