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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



81074 to 81208— Continued. 



inches long, light glossy green with 

 white-banded spots. The' simple flower 

 stalk is about 3 feet high. Native to 

 South Africa. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 78206. 



81166. Gastbeia subnigricans 

 (Spreng.) Haw. 



No. 785. A succulent with the radi- 

 cal leaves in two nearly straight ranks 

 and a simple flower stalk about 3 feet 

 high. The leaves ai'e scarcely an inch 

 wide at the base, 5 to 8 inches long, 

 and green with small separate trans- 

 versely arranged pale spots. 



81167. Hakea suaveolens R. Br. Pro- 

 teaceae. 



No. 815. A rounded shrub 8 to 15 feet 

 high, with leaves 2 to 4 inches long, 

 cylindrical, with rigid spinelike tip, occa- 

 sionally entire, but usually branched into 

 rigid cylindrical lobes and fragrant white 

 flowers. It is an easily grown, drought- 

 resistant, self-protective shrub, and makes 

 a suitable covering for dry hillsides, al- 

 though it is not deep-rooted and some- 

 times is inclined to become top-heavy. It 

 is native to Australia. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 42603. 



81168. Haworthia attendata Haw. 

 Liliaceae. 



No. 819. A cespitose succulent plant 

 with the leaves in a spiral rosette and a 

 flower stalk about 2 feet high, bearing 

 tubular rosy flowers. The thick sword- 

 shaped leaves, half an inch wide by 3 

 inches long, are green with the upper 

 face roughened by minute green points 

 and the lower surface with large white 

 tubercles in bands or ridges. Native to 

 South Africa. 



81169. Haworthia tortuosa pseudo- 

 rigida (Salm-Dyck) Berger (H. sho- 

 rigida Baker). Liliaceae. 



No. 822. A succulent with clustered 

 stems up to 6 inches long, bearing small 

 3-ranked leaves and a flower stalk a foot 

 high with rosy-lined tubular flowers. The 

 dull-green fleshy leaves are 2 inches long 

 and are roughened on both surfaces. Na- 

 tive to South Africa. 



81170. Hymexosporum flavum (Hook.) 

 F. Muell. Pittosporaceae. 



No. 862. An ornamental evergreen 

 shrub or tree, sometimes becoming 50 

 feet high, native to Australia. The 

 leaves are up to 9 inches long, and the 

 fragrant flowers, yellow marked with red 

 at the throat, are over an inch across. Its 

 symmetrical pyramidal habit and rapid 

 growth make it promising as a street 

 tree for the Gulf States and California. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 61058. 



81171. Kalanchoe crenata Haw. Cras- 

 sulaceae. 



No. 917. A succulent perennial, na- 

 tive to tropical Africa, 2 to 6 feet high, 

 with a thick fibrous root, oblong or 

 roundish oval crenate leaves about 2 

 inches long, and bright-yellow flowers, 

 half an inch long, in terminal and axil- 

 lary cymes. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 79166. 



81074 to 81208— Continued. 



81172. Kalanchoe dyeri N. E. Brown. 

 Crassulaceae. 



No. 918. One of the most attractive 

 plants of this genus, producing large 

 pure-white flowers, 1% inches long, in 

 corymbose cymes. The entire plant is 

 2y 2 feet high, with large, opposite, green 

 or purplish leaves speckled with white 

 and irregularly and coarsely toothed. 



81173. Lavandula abrotanoides Lam. 

 Menthaceae. Lavender. 



No. 947. A herbaceous perennial 

 about 2 feet high, native to the Canary 

 Islands. It has green bipinnate leaves 

 and a branched spike of bluish flowers. 



81174. Melaleuca acuminata F. Muell. 

 Myrtaceae. 



No. 1042. A glabrous bushy shrub 

 with slender branches, mostly opposite 

 lanceolate leaves a quarter of an inch 

 long, and lateral clusters of small whit- 

 ish flowers. Native to Australia. 



81175. Melaleuca cuticularis Labill. 

 Myrtaceae. 



No. 1044. A tall shrub or small tree 

 with twisted branches and bark in pa- 

 perlike layers. The thick, flat, linear- 

 oblong leaves are. half an inch long, and 

 the small flowers are grouped in a scaly 

 head. Native to Australia. 



81176. Mesembryanthemum acinaci- 

 forme L. Aizoaceae. Figmarigold. 

 No. 1061. A fleshy plant with a jointed 



stem 2 to 3 feet high, opposite, scimitar- 

 shaped leaves 2 to 3 inches long, with 

 the keel dilated, and purple flowers about 

 4 inches across, said to be the largest of 

 the genus. The edible fruits, about the 

 size of a gooseberry, are eaten by the 

 natives of South Africa. 



For previous- introduction see No. 

 79480. 



81177 to 81183. Neomammillaria spp. 

 Cactaceae. 



81177. NEOMAMMILLARIA DONATII 



(Berge) Britt. and Rose. 



No. 1019. A spherical or somewhat 

 compressed cactus, native to Mexico, 

 which is simple or with few branches 

 in old plants. The summit, somewhat 

 concave, is filled with white hairs 

 through which project dark-brown 

 spines. The tubercles are conical and 

 about one-third of an inch high. The 

 small carmine-red flowers, half an inch 

 across, are mostly near the summit. 



81178. Neomammillaria elongata 

 (DC.) Britt. and Rose. 



No. 1020. An erect cactus 6 to 7 

 inches high and 1 to 2 inches in diam- 

 eter, with short tubercles having 16 to 

 18 yellow radial spines. The flowers 

 are white or yellowish. Native to cen- 

 tral Mexico. 



81179. Neomammillaria macracantha 

 (DC.) Britt. and Rose. 



No. 1016. A depressed-globular cac- 

 tus, 2 to 6 inches in diameter, with 

 ovoid tubercles crowned by one or two 

 reddish elongated spines up to 2 inches 

 long, and dark-pink flowers about 

 three-fourths of an inch across, borne 

 near the top of the plant. Native to 

 San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 



