Descriptive List 



Numbers preceding plant names are P. I. numbers and, in 

 correspondence concerning any plant, both number and name always 



must be given. 



Nurserymen please see statement at end of paragraph 3 of introductory 

 note, concerning items marked with an asterisk {*) . 



111228. ACACIA DENTINENS. From South Africa. Presented by Miss M. Wilman, McGregor 

 Museum, Kimberley. Zwart Haak . An attractive shrub or small tree, armed with 

 very short recurved prickles along the branches. The compound leaves have 3 pairs 

 of pinnae, each composed of one pair of obliquely ovate leaflets. The small yellow 

 flowers are in loose, sub-globose heads. For trial in the Gulf region and southern 

 California. (Chico, Calif.) 



106106. ACACIA GIRAFFAE. From the Union of South Africa. Presented by Miss M. 

 Wilman, McGregor Museum, Kimberley. The Kameel-doorn, of the Transvaal, a valuable 

 tree for arid regions in the warm temperate zone. The ripe pods are eaten greedily 

 by stock. The tree thrives in sandy soil, attains a large size, and the dark reddish- 

 brown wood is used by the natives in making spoons, knife-handles, etc. For trial 

 in the Gulf region and the warmer parts of the southwest. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



1C6603. ACACIA LAETA. From Egypt. Presented by Thos. W. Brown, Ministry of Agri- 

 culture, Giza. A small tree, armed with short, black, hooked prickles, or sometimes 

 unarmed. The small glaucous leaves 2 to 3 inches long, consist of 2 to 3 pairs of 

 oblique, oblong leaflets, and the flowers are in small spikes. Native to Abyssinia. 

 The species has shown considerable hardiness in southern Florida. For trial in 

 southern California and southern Florida. (Chico, Calif.) 



104164. ACACIA SP . From Australia. Presented by F. H. Baker, Richmond. Locally 

 known as jam-wood; the blossom has the fragrance of raspberry jam. Received as 

 Acacia acuminata , but the seeds do not agree with that species For trial more 

 especially in southern California but also in the drier, warmer parts of the Gulf 

 region. (Supply limited.) (Chico, Calif.) 



106546. ACACIA SP. From South Africa. Collected at Skukusa, Krueger Park, East 

 Transvaal, by T. and R. P. Barbour. An unidentified acacia, no description for which 

 is available. The young seedlings have bipinnate leaves with 13 to 16 pairs of very 

 small leaflets on a pinna. For trial in southern California and the Gulf region. 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



110285. ACANTHOPANAX TRIFOLIATUM. Araliaceae. From Swatow, China. Presented by 

 Lingnan University, Canton, through Prof. I. J. Condit of the University of Cali- 

 fornia at Los Angeles. A hardy, spiny, climbing shrub, native to western China, 

 with slender-stemmed, 3-parted, light-green leaves, and compound terminal umbels of 

 small greenish flowers followed by small black berries. For trial from the Ohio 

 River southv.-ard and on the Pacific coast, (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



95545. ACER BARBINERVE. Maple. From Japan. Obtained from Chugai Shckubutsu Yen, 

 near Kobe. A shrubby tree, native to Manchuria, with coarsely toothed 5-lobed leaves. 

 For trial frcni southern New York and Lake Erie southward and west of the Rocky Mount- 

 ains. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



