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79930 to 79956— Continued. 



An evergreen shrub about 6 feet 

 high, .which stands cutting back well 

 and produces an abundance of small 

 pink flowers. It is native to South 

 Australia. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 49364. 



79941, GEEVILLEA ERICIFOLIA R. Br. 



A low evergreen shrub of spreading 

 habit, about 2 feet high, with sessile 

 linear or lanceolate leaves and short 

 terminal racemes of red and yellowish 

 flowers. It is native to southeastern 

 Australia. 



79942. Geevillea ilicifolia R. Br. 



A large spreading evergreen shrub, 

 native to South Australia, with prickly 

 hollylike leaves 1 to 2 inches long and 

 small flowers in terminal racemes. 



79943. Grevillea lavandulacea 



Schlecht. 



Variety malleensis. A variety na- 

 tive to South Australia where it grows 

 from a foot to a foot and a half high 

 on a sandy or clayey subsoil, but it 

 seems to prefer broken rock soil 

 (quartzite). It does very well on rock- 

 eries and should be treated as a rock 

 plant. The leaves are pungent, and 

 the crimson flowers, at each axil all 

 along the branches, are borne from 

 the beginning of the winter until late 

 spring in Australia. 



79944. Geevillea oleoides Sieber. 



From The Grampians, Victoria. An 

 erect evergreen shrub, 4 to 5 feet high, 

 closely allied to O. punicea, with 

 lanceolate leaves 2 to 4 inches long 

 and sessile racemes of bright-red 

 flowers. It is native to southeastern 

 Australia. 



79945. Grevillea oleoides dimorpha 

 (F. Muell.) Benth. 



A variety with more rigid foliage, 

 lanceolate in some specimens and lin- 

 ear in others, and usually smaller 

 flowers. 



79946. Grevillea peitzelii Diels. 



An evergreen shrub, native to Aus- 

 tralia, with brown-hairy branchlets, 

 linear sickle-shaped leaves 3 to 5 

 inches long, and racemes, 2 to 3 inches 

 long, of white flowers covered with 

 •dense white tomentum. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 76640. 



79947. Geevillea ponicea R. Br. 



An erect evergreen shrub, 4 to 5 feet 

 high, with small elliptic-oblong leaves 

 and crimson flowers in short dense 

 terminal racemes. It is native to New 

 South Wales. 



79948. Geevillea eosmaeinifolia A. 

 Cunn. 



An erect evergreen shrub, native to 

 New South Wales, about 5 feet high 

 with hairy branches, erect crowded 

 linear-subulate leaves, and short dense 

 racemes of red flowers. 



79949. Hakea sp. Proteaceae. 



An ornamental evergreen shrub, native 

 to Western Australia, with long spikes of 

 .scarlet flowers. 



79930 to 79956— Continued. 



79950. Hibiscus splendens Ftj 

 vaceae. 



Mal- 



From north of Cairns, Queensland. A 

 tall handsome shrub 12 to 20 feet high, 

 native to southern Australia, densely 

 hairy, with prickly branches, palmately 

 lobed heart-shaped leaves, and large, 

 showy rose-colored flowers 6 inches or 

 more across. 



79951. Hovea elliptica (J. E. Smith) 

 DC. Fabaceae. 



A leguminous evergreen shrub up to 

 10 feet high, with slender branches, small 

 narrowly oval leaves, and short axillary 

 clusters' of small blue flowers. It is na- 

 tive to Western Australia. 



For previous introduction see No. 



64487. 



79952. Hovea pungens Benth. Fabaceae. 



A rigidly erect evergreen shrub, 1 to 2 

 feet high, with linear-lanceolate coriace- 

 ous sharp-pointed leaves less than an 

 inch long. The branches are covered 

 from the bottom to Ihe top with clusters 

 of deep-blue flowers. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 76641. 



79953. Kunzea PABVIFLOEA Hort. Myrta- 

 ceae. 



A dwarf evergreen shrub with very 

 showy crimson flowers. Native to Aus- 

 tralia. 



79954. Oxvlobium lanceolatum (Vent.) 

 Druce (O. callhtachys Benth.). Faba- 

 ceae. 



A tall evergreen shrub, native to Aus- 

 tralia, with whorls of lanceolate leaves 

 3 to 5 inches long and yellow flowers in 

 dense terminal racemes 6 inches long. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 76941. 



79955. Swainsona galegifolia (An- 

 drews) R. Br. (8. ooronillifolia 

 Salisb.). Fabaceae. 



A shrubby perennial, native to Aus- 

 tralia, climbing to a height of several 

 feet, with 1 to 21 small oblong leaflets 

 and large deep-red. pink, or white flowers. 

 Sicainsona coronilUfolia probably repre- 

 sents the horticultural variety violacea, 

 which has rose-violet flowers. This spe- 

 cies is said to be poisonous to stock. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 77447. 



7S956. Theyptomene 



Myrtaceae. 



From Geraldton, Western Australia. 

 A dwarf evergreen bush or shrub with a 

 mass of pink flowers which were borne 

 at Blackwood between June and Sep- 

 tember. 



79957. Trachyphrynitjm sp. Maranta- 

 ceae. 



From Cameroon. West Africa. Seeds col- 

 lected by David Fairchild, agricultural 

 explorer, Bureau of Plant Industry, with 

 the Allison V. Armour expedition. Re- 

 ceived March 25, 1927. Numbered in 

 January, 1929. 



No. 1174. Victoria Botanic Garden. A 

 tall branching shrub, native to west tropi- 

 cal Africa, with leafy stems and small in- 

 conspicuous flowers. 



