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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



78184 to 78236— Continued. 



78196. Cotyledon sp. 



A succulent plant, native to South 

 Africa. 



78197 to 78201. CBASSULA spp. Crassula- 

 ceae. 



78197. Crassula falcata Willd. 



A shrubby robust densely leafy suc- 

 culent native to South Africa. The 

 thick glaucous obliquely sword-shaped 

 leaves, 3 to 4 inches long, are united 

 at the base. The lower ones are re- 

 flexed and decrease in size upwards. 

 The stem and leaves are finely granu- 

 lated, giving the plant a frosted ap- 

 pearance. The bright crimson or 

 rarely white flowers are in a much- 

 branched panicle. 



78198. Crassula perfoliata L. 



A shrubby succulent native to South 

 Africa with thick glaucous connate 

 leaves and cymes of bright-crimson 

 flowers. 



78199. Crassula rosularis Haw. 



A herbaceous succulent plant with ra- 

 dical strap-shaped leaves 3 to 5 inches 

 long and scapelike peduncles a foot 

 high, with cymes of small white 

 flowers. Native to South Africa. 



78200. Crassula sp. 



A succulent plant, native to South 

 Africa, with more or less fleshy leaves 

 and white or red flowers. 



78201. Crassula sp. 



A succulent, native to South Africa. 



78202. Czanastrum cordifolium Oliver 

 (Schoenlandia gabonensis Cornu). 

 Haemodoraceae. 



A bulbous perennial, native to West 

 Africa, with membranous cordate leaves 

 6 inches long, rising singly from the 

 corymb, and blue flowers half an inch 

 long in a bracted lax raceme. 



78203. Duvalia reclinata Haw. Asclepi- 

 adaceae. 



A succulent leafless plant a foot long, 

 with 4-angled to 5-angled stems, the 

 angles being tuberculate toothed, and 

 small clusters of chocolate-colored flow- 

 ers. Native to South Africa. 



78204 to 78209. Gasteria spp. Liliaceae. 



78204. Gasteria brevifolia Haw. 



A succulent herb, native to South 

 Africa, with a very short leafy stem 

 densely crowded with oblong glossy 

 leaves 4 inches long and racemes of 

 tubular red flowers an inch long. 



78205. Gasteria croucheri (Hook f.) 

 Baker {G-. natalensis Baker). 



A succulent, native to South Africa, 

 with a short stem 1 to 2 inches long 

 and a rosette of 12 to 18 lanceolate 

 leaves 15 inches long, 3 inches broad, 

 and an inch thick at the base, nar- 

 rowed to a sharp point and marked 

 with small greenish white spots. 



. Gasteria nitida (Salm-Dyck) 

 Haw. 



A succulent, native to South Africa, 

 with a short stem, a rosette of thick 

 fleshy lanceolate leaves 9 inches long, 

 bright green with small white spots. 



78184 to 78236— Continued. 



and a peduncle a foot long bearing a 

 lax raceme of red, white, and green 

 flowers. 



78207. Gasteria sp. 



A succulent herb, native to South 



Africa, with a rosette of strap-shaped 



leaves and lax racemes of usually red 

 flowers. 



78208. Gasteria sp. 



A succulent, native to South Africa. 



78209. Gasteria sp. 



A succulent, native to South Africa. 



78210 to 78217. Haworthia spp. Lilia- 

 ceae. 



78210. Haworthia arachxoides (Mill.) 

 Haw. 



A succulent, native to South Africa, 

 with a very short stem and rosettes 

 3 to 4 inches across, of 30 to 40 thick 

 lanceolate leaves, 2 inches long, hav- 

 ing a long transparent awn and trans- 

 parent teeth along the edges and keel. 



78211. Haworthia ctmbiformis Haw. 



A succulent with rosettes 3 to 4 

 inches broad, of 20 to 25 obovate 

 leaves 2 inches long, pale green marked 

 on the upper half with vertical lines 

 of darker green. Native to South 

 Africa. 



78212. Haworthia fasciata (Willd.) 

 Haw. 



A succulent, native to South Africa, 

 with a short leafy stem forming a 

 spiral rosette of ascending deltoid- 

 lanceolate leaves having transverse 

 bands of white tubercles. The rosy 

 lined flowers are in a terminal raceme 

 less than a foot high. 



78213. Haworthia eeinwardti (Salm- 

 Dyck) Haw. 



A stoloniferous succulent, native to 

 South Africa, with a leafy stem 6 

 inches high and 2 inches in diameter 

 including the leaves. These are as- 

 cending, ovate-lanceolate, pale green 

 when young, but turning reddish 

 brown with age and having 9 to 11 

 vertical rows of raised white tubercles. 



78214. Haworthia translucexs 

 (Willd.) Haw. 



A succulent, native to South Africa, 

 with a rosette of ascending lanceolate 

 pale-green leaves, 2 inches long, hav- 

 ing a long transparent awn at the 

 tip and margined with deltoid trans- 

 parent teeth. 



78215. Haworthia sp. 



A succulent, native to South Africa. 



78216. Haworthia sp. 



A succulent, .native to South Africa. 



78217. Haworthia sp, 



A succulent, native to South Africa. 



78218. Heurnia sp. Asclepiadaceae. 



A succulent, native to South Africa. 



78219. Heurnia sp. Asclepiadaceae. 



A succulent, native to South Africa. 



78220. Argeta petbeksis N. E. Brown. 

 Aizoaceae. 



