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106073. ALOE PRETORIENSIS . From South Africa. Obtained from Miss M. Wilman, Mc 

 Gregcr 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 inclorescence with dense racemes of bright-scarlet flowers. For 

 trial indoors only except in the warmer parts of the Gulf region and in southern 

 California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



75953. 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 are l\ 

 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 localities. 

 Some of these plants are seedlings and some are grown from cuttings. (Chico, Calif.) 



79473. ALOE SP. Originally from France. Obtained from Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co., 

 Paris. Second-generation seedlings of a hybrid aloe of which one of the original 

 parents was A^ striata and the other unknown. The parent plants of the present 

 seedlings are 18 inches high, with a 24-inch spread. The leaves are a foot long by 



3 to 4 inches wide, yellowish green in color and with a bluish bloom; they are 

 somewhat burned by full sunlight at Chico. For trial on the Pacific coast and in 

 the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



106074. ALOE SP. From South Africa. Obtained from Miss M. Wilman, McGregor Museum, 

 Kimberley. A low fleshy species, the young plants of which have cespitose, two-rank- 

 ed, rounded-triangular, dull-green leaves up to Z^ inches long. The very short dull- 

 red spines are scattered over the dorsal surface. For trial indoors only except in 

 the warmer southern parts of California, Arizona, and Florida. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



106075. ALOE SP. From South Africa. Obtained from Miss M. Wilman, McGregor Museum, 

 Kimberley. A low fleshy species, the young plants of which have cespitose, two-rank- 

 ed, elongat3-triangular, pale-sreen leaves up to 2-g- inches long, with short whitish 

 marginal spines, and marked on the back with whitish blotches. For trial indoors 

 only except in the warmer southern parts of California, Arizona, and Florida. (Glenn 

 Dale, Md.) 



78188. ANACAMPSEROS TELEPHIASTRUM . Portulacaceae . From South Africa. Obtained 

 from W. i C. Gcwie, Grahamstown, through Hugh Evans, Santa Monica, Calif. A succulent 

 plant a few inches high, with thick, ovate-acute, cespitose leaves and panicles of 

 reddish flowers. For trial indoors only except in tho warmest parts of the southwest 

 and in Southern Florida. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



103985. ARISTOLOCHIA TAGALA. From the Straits Settlements. Obtained from the Botan- 

 ic Gardens. Singapore, through the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum, Cien- 

 fuegos, Cuba. A tropical climber with ovate-acuminate and deeply cordate-auriculate 

 leaves about 4 inches long. The greenish-purple flowers with the limb extended into a 

 tongue-shaped lip are in small racemes. Native to Luzon, Philippine Islands, and al- 

 lied to Aristolochia indica. ?or trial in southern Florida and southern California. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



