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79462 to 79502. 



From Paris. France. Seeds purchased from 

 Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co. Received March 

 19, 1929. 



79462 to 79469. Agave spp. Amaryllida- 

 ceae. Agave. 



79462. Agave albicans Jacobi. 



A trunkless, cespitose agave, native 

 to Mexico, with spreading, glaucous, 

 thin oblanceolate leaves about a foot 

 long, with close-set minute brown mar- 

 ginal prickles and a terminal needle- 

 like small spine. The reddish green 

 flowers, in pairs, are a little over 1 inch 

 long and are on a spike 3 feet high. 



79463. Agave ellemeetiana Koch. 



A nearly trunkless plant with spread- 

 ing lanceolate unarmed leaves about 2 

 feet long, and paired greenish white 

 flowers, about 1 inch long, in a spike- 

 like inflorescence 5 to 10 feet high. 

 Native to Mexico. 



79464. Agave franzosini Baker. 



An agave with roughish, white, 

 recurved ascending lanceolate leaves 

 up to 8 feet long, armed with dark- 

 gray marginal prickles and a large 

 terminal spine. The tall green flower 

 stem, 30 to 40 feet high, bears flowers 

 over 3 inches long. It is probably 

 native to Mexico. 



79465. Agave lophantha Schiede. 



Crested agave. 



An agave, native to eastern Mexico. 

 with spreading, glossy green lanceolate 

 leaves a foot or more long, with small 

 hooked marginal prickles and terminat- 

 ing in a brown grooved spine. The 

 flowers, l 1 /: inches long, are borne on a 

 spike 9 to 15 feet high. 



79466. Agave polyacantha Haw. 



A cespitose plant, native to southern 

 Mexico, with lanceolate, upcurving 

 leaves sometimes 3 feet long, terminat- 

 ing in a stout spine and margined with 

 close-set brown prickles. The flowers, 

 2 inches long, are in a spikelike inflor- 

 esence 4 to 5 feet high. 



79467. Agave salmiana Otto. 



An agave with gray-green very thick 

 leaves about 3 feet long, with an elon- 

 gated gray terminal spine and tri- 

 angular marginal teeth. The scape is 

 covered with long, somewhat spreading 

 bract--. Native to Mexico. 



79468. Agave tequilana Web. 



A stemless century plant with 

 straight, rather stiff leathery gray- 

 green leaves about 3 feet long and 3 

 inches wide, terminating in a short 

 stout spine. The flower stem is about 

 20 feet high, with about 30 floral 

 branches. Native to southern Mexico. 



79469. Agave victoriae-reginae T. 

 Moore. 



An agave, native to northeastern 

 Mexico, with 3-angled short, stiff, tri- 

 angular dark-green leaves about 7 

 inches long, ending in a short black 

 spine, and a slender compact flowering 

 spike 10 to 12 feet high. 



79470 to 79473. Aloe spp. Liliaceae. 



79470. Aloe abborescens Mill. 



An arborescent succulent with a 

 simple trunk 10 to 15 feet high, 



79462 to 79502— Continued. 



clothed at the top with dull-green sinu- 

 ately spreading gradually narrowed 

 leaves about 2 feet long, with prickly 

 margins. The red flowers are in an 

 elongated raceme. It is probably a 

 native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



79471. Aloe saponaria (Ait.) Haw. 



An aloe from the Cape of Good Hope 

 which grows in cespitose clusters, with 

 ascending, oblong-lanceolate acuminate 

 leaves about 7 inches long, often red- 

 dish with pale blotches, and with large 

 confluent brown marginal teeth. The 

 red flowers are in a branched inflores- 

 cence 1 or 2 feet high. 



79472. Aloe striata Haw. 



A low fleshy plant with a dense 

 rosette of thick narrowly oblong 

 leaves 1 oi 2 feet long, obscurely 

 spotted, and bright-red flowers about 



1 inch long, in 20 or more heads borne 

 on a stout, branched peduncle. Native 

 to South Africa. 



79473. Aloe striata X ?. 



Seeds of a hybrid aloe of which only 

 one parent is known. 



79474. Daphne gnidium L. Thymelaea- 

 ceae. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 79205. 



79475. Gasteria obtusifolia (Salm- 

 Dyck) Haw. Liliaceae. 



A low fleshy South African plant with 

 a leafy stem 2 inches high, densely 

 crowded tongue-shaped leaves 4 to 6 

 inches long, and rosy flowers in a raceme 

 over a foot long. 



79476. Gasteria verrucosa Haw. Lilia- 

 ceae. 



A cespitose succulent, native to the 

 Cape of Good Hope, with spreading, 

 somewhat concavely 3-sided, dull-gray 

 acute leaves about 4 inches long, rough- 

 ened by white tubercles, and rosy flowers 

 about an inch long in an inflorescence 2 

 feet high. 



79477 to 79479. Kalanchoe spp. Crassul- 

 aceae. 



79477. Kalanchoe crenata Haw. 



For previous introduction and de- 

 scription see No. 79166. 



79478. Kalanchoe glaucescens Brit- 

 ten. 



A plant, native to tropical Africa, 

 with a terete stem 2 feet or more high, 

 narrowly oval irregularly crenate fleshy 

 leaves 5 inches long, and red or dark- 

 yellow flowers one-half inch long in 

 a glaucous panicle. 



79479. Kalanchoe schimperiana A. 

 Rich. 



An Abyssinian succulent of cespitose 

 habit, with obovate-spatulate crenate 

 leaves and pale-yellow flowers, about 

 3 inches long, in a dense branching 

 cyme. 



79480 to 79492. Mesembryanthemum spp. 

 Aizoaceae. Figmarigold. 



79480. Mesembryanthemum acinaci- 

 forme L. 



A fleshy plant with a jointed stem 



2 to 3 feet high, opposite, scimitar- 

 shaped leaves 2 to 3 inches long, with 



