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105099. ALOE BROOMII. Liliaceae. From the Union of South Africa. Presented by 
the McGregor Museum, Kimberley. An erect or: ascending plant with a short trunk, 
bearing a dense rosette of ovate-lanceolate, unspotted, glaucous or reddish leaves up 
to 5 inches long. The yellow flowers are in dense racemes on a short thick scape. 
For indoor culture only except in the Gulf region and southern California. (Glenn 
Dale, Md.) 
103101. ALOE PRETORIENSIS. From the Union of South Africa. Presented by the 
McGregor Museum, Kimberley. An aloe with dense rosettes of tapering leaves, usually 
withered at the red tips, and a stoutish stem 4 to 5 inches in diameter. The dark— 
brown to black stem is extremely rough, and clothed throughout its entire length by 
the remains of withered leafstalks. The most distinctive feature of the plant is 
its tall branched inflorescence with dense racemes of bright-scarlet flowers. For 
indoor culture only except in the Gulf region and in southern California. (Glenn 
Dale, Md.) 
759535. ALOE SUCCOTRINA. From East Africa. Collected near Camp Mitchell, Mount 
Kenya, by L. W. Kephart and R. L. Piemeisel, agricultural explorers, Bureau of Plant 
Industry. A shrubby plant 3 feet or more high. The pale—green fleshy leaves zre 
14 to 2 feet long by 2 inches wide and have marginal spines. The yellow flowers are 
in a dense raceme 6 to 12 inches long, terminating in a stout, simple or branched 
scape 2 to 4 feet high. It is useful for pot culture and may be grown in the open 
where the minimum temperature is above 30°F. Propagation is by seed or by suckers 
freely produced at base of plant. For trial indoors only except in frostless lo- 
calities. (Supply very limited.) (Chico, Calif.) 
103102. ALOE WICKENSII. From the Union of South Africa. Presented by the McGregor 
Museum, Kimberley. A handsome stemless succulent with a dense rosette of narrow 
sword—shaped paie-green leaves about 2 feet long, and yellow flowers in a dense 
raceme. For indoor culture only except in the Gulf region and in southern California. 
(Glenn Dale, Md.) 
76931. ANIGOZANTHOS FLAVIDA. Amaryllidaceae. From Melbourne, Australia. Presented 
by Mrs. Frieda C. Blanchard. An herbaceous perennial, native to western Australia 
with a thick underground stem, linear radical leaves 1 to 2 feet long, and a 4-foot 
stalk bearing a much-branched panicle of tubular flowers. The flowers and stems of 
the panicle are covered with a greenish—-red wool. For trial in the southern United 
States. (Chico. Calif.) 
104557. ANTIRRHINUM ORONTIUM. Small snapdragon. From France. Received from 
Museum of Natural History, Paris. A slender annual 6 to 12 inches high, with linear 
leaves up to 2 inches long, and axillary purple flowers about one-half inch long. 
For trial throughout the United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
103178. ARTEMISIA SIVERSIANA.* Asteraceae. From southwestern China. Collected by 
Dr. Joseph F. Rock, in the Moting Mountains, in Yunnan, and presented through Dr. 
T. H. Goodspeed, of the University of California. An alpine herb with yellow flowers, 
growing on grassy slopes in the Mekong Valley, at 9,000 feet altitude. (Glenn Dale, 
Md. ) 
