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81074 to 81208— Continued. 



sulphur-yellow flowers in axillary and 

 terminal racemes. Native country un- 

 known. 



81150 to 81152. Cytisus spp. 



Fabaceae. 

 Broom. 



81150. Cytisus filipes Webb and 

 Berth. 



No. 614. An upright nearly leafless 

 shrub with very slender stems and 

 branches, native to the island of Tene- 

 riffe, Canary Islands. The few trifolio- 

 late leaves are made up of linear-lanceo- 

 late, nearly glabrous leaflets, and the 

 rather large, fragrant, pure-white 

 flowers are in axillary clusters. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 65008. 



81151. Cytisus hillebbandtii (Christ) 

 Briq. 



No. 615. A suffruticose plant with 

 long slender hairy stems and trifolio- 

 late hairy leaves. Native to the 

 Canary Islands. 



81152. Cytisus racemosus everestia- 

 nus (Carr.) Rehd. 



No. 613. This very free-flowering 

 form of the Easter broom, Cytisus 

 racemosus, is a pubescent shrub up to 

 6 feet high, with grooved branches, 

 persistent trifoliolate leaves of obovate 

 leaflets, and deep-yellow flowers in long 

 loose terminal and lateral racemes. A 

 garden hybrid. 



81153. DlMORPHOTHECA ECKLONIS DC. 



Asteraceae. Cape-marigold. 



No. 651. A robust and erect subshrub 

 2 feet or more high, with crowded linear- 

 lanceolate leaves, and terminal flower 

 heads having rays 1% inches long, which 

 are white above and purplish below. 

 Native to South Africa. 



81154. Echeveria amoena D e S m e t . 

 Crassulaceae. 



No. 671. A nearly stemless succulent 

 with small dense rosettes of thick leaves 

 and slender scapes 4 to 8 inches high, 

 bearing 1-flowered to 8-flowered racemes 

 of red flowers. Native to Mexico. 



81155. Echium callithyrsum Webb. 

 Boraginaceae. 



No. 685. A robust woody or treelike 

 perennial with strongly nerved leaves and 

 thyrsoid spikes of pale red flowers. 

 Native to the Canary Islands. 



81156. Encephalartos lehmanni Lehm. 

 Cycadaceae. 



No. 700. A cycad with a smooth cy- 

 lindrical trunk and a crown of pinnate 

 leaves having glaucous lanceolate oppo- 

 site leaflets 5 to 7 inches long, each 

 tipped with a brown spine. Native to 

 South Africa. 



81157 to 81166. Gasteria spp. Liliaceae. 



81157. Gasteria acinacifolia (Jacq.) 

 Haw. 



No. 776. A nearly stemless succu- 

 lent plant with a 2-ranked rosette, 2 

 to 14 inches across, of 3-edged acute 

 dark glossy green leaves having scat- 

 tered paler dots. The reddish flowers, 



81074 to 81208— Continued. 



1 to 2 inches long, are borne on a 

 stalk about 4 feet high. Native to 

 South Africa. 



81158. Gasteria angulata (Willd.) 

 Haw. 



No. 777. A succulent plant with a 

 rosette of leaves 8 to 10 inches long 

 and 2 inches wide, slightly concave on 

 each face and one or both edges angu- 

 larly doubled ; dark green with small 

 confluent white spots. The flower stem 

 is about 3 feet high, bearing curved 

 tubular red flowers scarcely an inch 

 long. Native to South Africa. 



81159. Gasteria brevifolia Haw. 



No. 778. 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. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 78204. 



81160. Gasteria carinata (Mill.) Haw. 



No. 779. A nearly stemless succu- 

 lent plant with thick, spreading, tri- 

 angular leaves 2 inches wide at the 

 base and 6 inches. long, grooved above, 

 dull green with coarse whitish warts. 

 The flower stalk is 2 to 3 feet high 

 and is often branched. Native to South 

 Africa. 



81161. Gasteria cheilophylla Baker. 



No. 780. A succulent with a stem 

 about 2 inches long and 14 to 18 leaves 

 in a spirally twisted rosette. The 

 nearly erect, sword-shaped leaves are 

 9 to 12 inches long, sometimes doubled 

 on one edge, and are dark green with 

 copious, confluent, slightly raised 

 white spots. Native to South Africa. 



81162. Gasteria lingua (Thunb.) 

 Berger. 



No. 781. A succulent, nearly stem- 

 less plant with concave oblong 2-edged 

 leaves 2 inches wide at the base and 

 8 to 10 inches long, green or grayish 

 with more or less banded pale-greenish 

 spots. The simple flower stalk is about 

 3 feet high. Native to South Africa. 



81163. Gasteria maculata (Thunb.) 

 Haw. 



No. 782. A succulent with an evi- 

 dent stem on which the tongue-shaped 

 leaves are crowded in twisted ranks. 

 The leaves, 2 inches wide and 6 to 8 

 inches long, are abruptly sharp pointed, 

 2-edged or with one margin doubled, 

 and are glossy dark green with oblong- 

 white spots. The branched flower 

 stalk is 3 to 4 feet high. Native to 

 South Africa. 



81164. Gasteria mollis Haw. 



No. 783. A succulent with a leafy 

 stem 1 to 2 feet high, crowded, spread- 

 ing, tongue-shaped leaves 3 to 4 inches 

 long, dull green with small immersed 

 spots and tubercles on the edges. The 

 reddish flowers are in a raceme on a 

 simple stem about a foot high. Native 

 to South Africa. 



81165. Gasteria nitida (Salm-Dyck) 

 Haw. 



No. 784. A succulent with nearly 

 radical triangular-lanceolate leaves 2 

 inches wide at the base and 6 to 9 



