Descriptive List 



Numbers preceding plant names are P. I. (plant introduction) 



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 v/ith an asterisk (*) . 



90649. ABIES HOLOPHYLLA . Needle fir. From Manchuria. Collected by P. H. Dorsett 

 and W. J. Morse, Bureau of Plant Industry. A tall handsome fir, eventually 100 feet 

 or more high, with stout spreading or ascending branches and dark-green foliage. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



90837. ACACIA CRASSIUSCULA. Thicket acacia. From New South Wales, Australia. 

 Presented by the Director, Botanic Gardens, Sydney. An attractive shrub, up to 10 

 feet high, with a broad top, ridged branchlets, very numerous linear falcate 1-nerved 

 phyllodes 3 to 6 inches long, and short racemes of small, dense globular, yellov/ 

 flower heads. Mature seeds planted immediately germinate in 3 weeks. Native to 

 Tasmania. For trial in southern California and the warmer parts of the Gulf region. 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



111228. ACACIA DENTINENS. From South Africa. Presented by the McGregor Museum, 

 Kiffiberley. Z war t 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.) 



106603. ACACIA LAETA . From Egypt. Presented by Thos. 7/. 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 ssall spikes. Native to Ethiopia. 

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

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



116635. ACACIA SCORPIOIDES. From India. Collected at Lahore, Punjab, by Walter 

 Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. An attractive shrub or small tree with gray branch- 

 lets, bipinnate leaves, and spiny stipules. There are 10 to 20 pairs of very small 

 leaflets on ■ the pinnae of the leaves. The yellow flower heads are in groups of 2 

 to 5 and are followed by attractive gray-downy pods 3 to 6 inches long. The tree 

 yields an adhesive gum. For trial in southern California and the warmest parts of 

 the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



110884. ACACIA SP . From Colombia. Collected near Cucuta by W. A. Archer, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. This unidentified acacia, with compound leaves, is reported to 

 grow into a large handsome tree. For trial in southern California and southern 

 Florida. (Chico, Calif.) 



