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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



81074 to 81208— Continued. 



81134. Aloe saponaria (Ait.) Haw. 



No. 118. An aloe, native to the 

 Cape of Good Hope, which grows in 

 cespitose clusters, with ascending, ob- 

 long-lanceolate acuminate leaves about 



7 inches lcmg, often reddish with pale 

 blotches and with large confluent brown 

 marginal teeth. The red flowers are 

 in a branched inflorescence 1 or 2 feet 

 high. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 79471. 



81135. Aloe schimpeei Tod. 



No. 119. A fleshy aloe with oval- 

 lanceolate glaucous-green lineate leaves 

 a foot long, furnished with a thin red- 

 dish horny border and crowded minute 

 marginal teeth. The stout-branched 

 peduncle, 2 to 3 feet high, bears short 

 crowded racemes of bright-red flowers. 

 Native to Egypt. 



81136. Aloe speciosa Berger. 



No. 120. A hybrid aloe, of unknown 

 parentage, cultivated at La Mortola, 

 Ventimiglia. Italy. It is short-stemmed, 

 branching from the base, having tri- 

 angular-acute dark-green leaves about 



8 inches long, with small incurved 

 marginal prickles. The light-red 

 flowers, nearly 2 inches long, are on a 

 stout 3-brauched peduncle 20 inches 

 high. 



81137. Aloe spinosissima Berger. 



No. 121. A handsome hybrid aloe, 

 nearly stemless, with a dense rosette 

 of erect, long-acuminate leaves armed 

 with white marginal teeth and about 

 a foot long. The light-purplish flow- 

 ers are in an elongated cylindrical 

 raceme nearly a foot in length. 



81138. Aloe stbaussii Berger. 



No. 122. A stemless plant, native 

 to Tanganyika, with a rosette, of fleshy, 

 lanceolate-deltoid, dark-green spotted 

 leaves 8 inches long and pale-red 

 flowers on a simple scape 18 inches 

 high. 



81139. Aloe striata Haw. 



No. 104. Variety Haiiburiana. A 

 fleshy plant with a short stem, 1 to 2 

 feet in old plants, and a rosette of 12 

 to 20 oblong-lanceolate, glaucous leaves 

 1% to 2 feet long, with a cartilagin- 

 ous reddish margin. The bright-red 

 flowers are in capitate racemes on a 

 stout much - branched inflorescence. 

 Native to the coast of South Africa. , 



81140. Aloe striatula Haw. 



No. 123. An erect shrubby plant 3 

 to 7 feet high, with fleshy, linear-lan- 

 ceolate leaves 8 inches long, in small 

 rosettes terminating the branches. 

 The light-yellow flowers are in dense 

 racemes a foot high. Native to south- 

 eastern Cape of Good Hope. 



81141. Aloe supralaevis Haw, 



No. 124. An aloe with a stem 5 or 

 6 feet high, crowned by a dense ro- 

 sette of sword-shaped fleshy leaves 

 which are 1 to 2 feet long and armed 

 Tvith triangular horny marginal prickles 

 one-seventh of an inch long. The 

 reddish flowers are in a dense raceme 

 6 inches to a foot long. Native to 

 South Africa. 



81074 to 81208— Continued. 



81142. Aloe wixteri Berger. 



No. 125. A hybrid between Aloe 

 salmdyckiana and A. arborescent fru- 

 tescens, developed in the garden of L. 

 Winter, Bordighera, Italy. It is an 

 almost cespitose woody plant with 

 numerous upright-spreading. sword- 

 shaped leaves 2 feet long, with horny 

 margins armed with triangular teeth. 

 The light-yellow flowers are in a densp 

 raceme 10 inches long. 



81143. Bauhinia grandiflora Juss. Caes- 

 alpiniaceae. 



No. 203. A small tree, up to 20 feet 

 high, with subcordate leaves slightlv 

 lobed at the apex and tomentose beneath. 

 The large, pure-white flowers, opening at 

 night, are borne in clusters of one to 

 three on axillary peduncles. Native to 

 Peru. 



81144 to 81147. Berberis spp. Berberi- 

 daceae. Barberry. 



81144. Berberis actinacantha Mart. 



No. 209. An evergreen shrub, native 

 to Chile, 3 to 4 feet high, with 3- 

 parted to 5-parted often leaflike spines, 

 broadly ovate, spiny margined leaves. 

 fascicles of three to six fragrant deep- 

 yellow flowers, and dark fruits. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 76554. 



81145. Bebbebis chitbia D. Don. 



No. 211. A spiny half-evergreen 

 shrub, 6 feet or less high, with oblong 

 leaves 1 to 3 inches long, deep-yellow 

 or reddish flowers in long-stenimed 

 panicles, and ovoid, purple berries. 

 Native to the Himalayas. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 73530. 



81146. Bebbebis globosa Benth. 



No. 213. A spiny evergreen shrub, 

 6 to 8 feet high, with rigid, mucronate 

 leaves a little more than an inch long 

 and one-fourth of an inch wide, yellow 

 flowers a little larger than those of 

 the common barberry, and globular 

 fruits about the size of a small pea. 

 Native to the Andes of Colombia. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 44524. 



81147. Bebberis ltcium Royle. 



No. 216. A half -evergreen shrub, 

 10 feet high, with narrow bright- 

 green leaves and pale-yellow flowers 

 followed by ovoid violet berries. Na- 

 tive to northern India. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 79004. 



81148. Cestbum pabqdi L'Her. Solana- 

 ceae. Chilean cestrutn. 



No. 344. A semihardy, nearly gla- 

 brous shrub native to Chile. The leaves 

 are lanceolate to oblong, and the long, 

 tubular flowers are sessile, in open pani- 

 cles, greenish yellow, and very fragrant 

 at night. It is much grown in warm 

 countries where it blooms continuously. 



For previous introduction see No. 47401. 



81149. Cestbum sdberosum Jacq. 



No. 345. An erect glabrous shrub 5 

 feet high, with ill-smelling flat oblong- 

 oral leaves up to 4 inches Ions. »nd 



