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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



81057 to 81071— Continued. 



81061. Lithocarpds sp. Fagaceae. 

 No. 8345. 



81062. Magnolia sp. Magnoliaceae. 



81063. Raphiolepis sp. Malaceae. 



81064. Sttrax sp. Styracaceae. 

 No. 8415. 



81065. (Undetermined.) 

 No. 8480. 



81066. (Undetermined.) 

 No. 7682. 



81067. (Undetermined.) 

 No. 8090. 



81068. (Undetermined.) 



81069. (Undetermined.) 



81070. (Undetermined.) 



81071. (Undetermined.) 



81072. Pistacia chinensis Bunge (P. 

 pMlippmensis Merr. and Rolfe). 

 Anacardiaceae. Chinese pistache. 



From Mountain Province, Philippine Is- 

 lands. Seeds presented by S. Young- 

 berg, Director, Bureau of Agriculture, 

 Manila. Received July 12, 1929. 



A large deciduous tree, sometimes reach- 

 ing a height of 80 feet, native to central 

 and western China. The pinnate leaves, 

 about 9 inches long, consist of 10 to 12 

 narrow, oval leaflets. Because of its glossy 

 green foliage which becomes brilliant crim- 

 son in autumn and its rather rapid growth 

 this is a valuable shade tree for mild- 

 wintered regions. 



For previous introduction see No. 74678. 



81073. Bokassus flabeixifer L. Phoe- 

 nicaceae. Palmyra palm. 



From Gambia, British West Africa. Seeds 

 presented by A. J. Brooks, Director, De- 

 partment of Agriculture. Received July 

 13, 1929. 



An African form of the famous Palmyra 

 palm of India. Though a slow grower, it 

 is a very handsome palm when old. In as 

 much as it grows in the dry coastal regions 

 of Ceylon, is apparently able to withstand 

 any amount of lime, and is said to have 

 been used successfully as a binder for sand 

 dunes, it may prove of real value in the 

 calcareous soils of southern Florida. In 

 the number of uses to which it is put in 

 Ceylon it rivals the coconut. A delicate 

 sugar is made from the sap, which flows 

 in abundance from its inflorescence when 

 cut. The seeds are germinated and the 

 young subterranean hypocotyl is used as a 

 vegetable. The leaves are used in many 

 different ways. The fruit, half the size of 

 a coconut, is very attractive in appearance, 

 and when ripe exhales a delicate fragrance. 

 The hull is eaten by the Tamils of Ceylon. 



For previous introduction see No. 78616. 



81074 to 81208. 



From Ventimiglia, Italy. Seeds presented 

 by S. W. McLeod Braggins, Superintend- 

 ent, La Mortola. Received April 25, 1929. 

 Numbered in August, 1929. 



81074 to 81208— Continued. 



81074 to 81099. Agave spp. Amaryllida- 

 ceae. 



81074. Agave albicans Jacobi. 



No. 50. A trunkless, cespitose agave, 

 native to Mexico, with spreading, 

 glaucous thin oblanceolate leaves about 

 a foot long with close-set minute brown 

 marginal prickles and a terminal 

 ncedlelike small spine. The reddish 

 green paired flowers are a little over 

 an inch long and are on a spike 3 feet 

 high. 



. For previous introduction see No. 

 79462. 



81075. Agave aurea Brandegee. 



No. 51. A stemless plant with a 

 rosette of about 50 gray-green, narrow- 

 lanceolate leaves about 3 feet long, 

 armed with unequally triangular often 

 upcurved prickles and ending in a 

 chestnut-colored spine an inch long. 

 The numerous golden-yellow flowers are 

 borne on a scape about 5 feet high. 

 Native to Lower California. 



81076. Agave brachystachys Cav. 



No. 52. A trunkless agave with a 

 thick rhizome and a rosette of linear- 

 lanceolate green or grayish leaves a 

 foot or more long, with margins 

 scarcely prickly. The scape, 3 feet or 

 more high, bears a small dense cluster 

 of greenish flowers. Native from 

 southern Mexico to Guatemala. 



81077. Agave beacteosa S. Wats. 



No. 53. A trunkless agave with 3- 

 sided, gray, sigmoidally spreading 

 spineless leaves about 20 inches long, 

 and rather small flowers on a scape 

 3 to 5 feet high. Native to New 

 Mexico. 



81078. Agave cantala (Haw.) Roxb. 



No. 54. A variety with a short, 

 thick stem bearing an aloelike cluster 

 of large fleshy leaves and a tall flower 

 stalk on which grow a large number 

 of small bulbils. The spiny edged 

 leaves are grouped compactly around 

 the stem and terminate in a hard, 

 sharp spine. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 51206. 



81079. Agave chiapensis Jacobi. 



No. 55. A trunkless agave, probably 

 native to southern Mexico, with up- 

 curving lanceolate green leaves 2 or 

 even 3 feet long, with rather small 

 brown prickles and a narrow-grooved 

 stout spine. The scape is 4 or 5 feet 

 high. 



81080. Agave chloracantha Salm- 

 Dyck. 



No. 56. An agave which develops 

 with age into a densely cespitose mass 

 3 or 4 feet wide. The bright-green, 

 fleshy, narrow leaves, reflexed at the 

 middle point, are 2 feet or less in 

 length, with a small fine terminal 

 spine. The greenish flowers are on a 

 scape about 6 feet high. Probably a 

 native of Mexico. 



81081. Agave filifera Salm-Dyck. 



No. 57. The oblong-lanceolate leaves 

 of this Mexican agave are upcurved- 

 spreading and 1 to 2 feet long, termi- 



