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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



8S665 to 86689— Continued. 



A large tree with a trunk 6 feet in 

 diameter, oblong-ovate coriaceous leaves 

 2 to 5 inches long, small umbels of 

 minute white flowers, and smooth round 

 berries one-fourth of an inch in diame- 

 ter. Native to India and Ceylon. 



86679. Indigofera dosua Buch.-Ham. 

 Fabaceae. Indigo. 



A low shrub with woody branches, 

 covered with short, gray or brownish pu- 

 bescence. The leaves, 1 to 3 inches long, 

 bear leaflets less than half an inch long, 

 which are dull green above and glaucous 

 below. The racemes of bright-red flowers 

 are 1 to 3 inches long with lanceolate- 

 cuspidate silky bracts. 



For previous introduction see No. 75961. 



86680. Indigofera pulchella R o x b. 

 Fabaceae. Indigo. 



A shrub 4 to 6 feet high with com- 

 pound leaves 3 to 6 inches long, made up 

 of 13 to 17 subcoriaceous oblong leaflets 

 1 inch long, and racemes 3 inches long of 

 bright red flowers. Native to the lower 

 slopes of the Himalayas in India. 



86681. Iris clarkei Baker. Iridaceae. 



Clarke iris. 



A curiously local Himalayan iris, native 

 to a circumscribed area in the Sikkim 

 and Bhutan regiun at altitudes between 

 6,000 and 11,000 feet, in ground that is 

 swampy half the year and frozen hard 

 under snow during most of the remaining 

 months. The narrow leaves, 2 feet long, 

 droop at the tops ; the upper surface is 

 polished and shiny, the under side glau- 

 cescent. The solid stem is 2 feet long 

 and bears one or two lateral heads. The 

 falls are blue-purple, blotched with white, 

 and are reflexed laterally. The upper 

 part of the haft is marked with yellow. 

 The reddish purple, lanceolate standards 

 are poised almost horizontally. The 

 styles form the highest point of the 

 flowers ; they are keeled, very convex, 

 and 1% inches long. 



For previous introduction see No. 76251. 



86682 to 86684. Meibomia spp. Faba- 

 ceae. 



86682. Meibomia cephalotes (Roxb.) 

 Kuntze (Desmodium cephalotes 

 Wall.). 



A tall shrub with densely silky, 

 acutely angled, zigzag branches and 

 compact umbels of deep-red flowers. 

 It is native to the eastern Himalayas. 

 Cattle and goats are said to be fond 

 of the leaves. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 61612. 



_. Meibomia conferta (DC.) 

 Kuntze (Desmodium confertum 

 DC). 



A shrubby plant with trifoliolate 

 leaves made up of oblong to obovate 

 entire leaflets 3 to 6 inches long, and 

 axillary or terminal racemes of rather 

 large flowers. Native to northern 

 India. 



86684. Meibomia floribunda (D. Don.) 

 Kuntze [Desmodium floribundum D. 

 Don.). 



A woody, thickly pubescent Hima- 

 layan plant with very copious axillary 

 and terminal racemes of red flowers. 



86665 to 86689— Continued. 



For previous introduction see No* 

 47721. 



86685. Pandanus furcatus Roxb. Pan- 

 danaceae. Screwpine. 



One of the most ornamental of the 

 screwpines, which attains a height of 

 about 20 feet, with dark green spiny 

 leaves over 10 feet long, gracefully arch- 

 ing and somewhat spirally arranged. 

 The whitish gray inflorescence emits a 

 very agreeable odor. Native to the East 

 Indies. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 72603. 



86686. Styrax hookeri C. B. Clarke. 

 Styracaceae. Snowbell. 



A tree often 40 feet high, native to 

 Sikkim and Bhutan, at altitudes ranging 

 from 6,000 to 7,000 feet. The white 

 flowers, 1 inch long, are tomentose out- 

 side, and the young branches are stellate- 

 pubescent. The wood is white, close- 

 grained, and moderately hard. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 • 80087. 



86687 to 86689. Thalictrum spp. Ranun- 

 culaceae. Meadowrue, 



86687. Thalictrum chelidonii DC. 



A very beautiful ornamental plants 

 15 inches high, with lovely pale-green 

 foliage, pubescent beneath. The deli- 

 cate, silvery lavender flowers, over an 

 inch across, are borne in graceful 

 sprays. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 50338. 



86688. Thalictrum cultratum Wall, 



A glabrous herbaceous perennial 

 2 to 4 feet high, with compound 

 leaves made up of obovate leaflets half 

 an inch long, and lax panicles of 

 greenish white flowers. Native to the 

 temperate Himalayas in India. 



86689. Thalictrum elegans Wall. 



A herbaceous perennial a foot high, 

 with decompound leaves made up of 

 small, suborbicular, 3-lobed leaflets 

 and sparingly branched panicles of 

 small greenish purple flowers. Native 

 to the temperate slopes of the Hima- 

 layas in India. 



For previous introduction see Nov 

 50339. 



86690 to 86692. 



From Darjiling, India. Seeds presented by 

 the Curator, Lloyd Botanic Garden. Re- 

 ceived March 28, 1930. 



86690. Evodia fraxinifolia (D. Don.) 

 Hook. f. Rutaceae. 



A small, much-branched, densely leafy 

 tree, smelling, when bruised, much like 

 caraway. The bright-green compound 

 leaves are 8 to 12 inches long ; the white 

 flowers are borne in axillary and ter- 

 minal cymes, and the red fruits are less 

 than an inch in diameter. In Sikkim, 

 India, where this tree is native, the soft 

 white wood is used for posts of huts. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 47682. 



86691. Meibomia sequax (Wall.) Kuntze 

 (Desmodium sequax Wall.). Fabaceae. 



