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86234. KALANCHOE SP. From Tashkent, Turkistan. Received from the Turkistan Plant 

 Breeding Station, through the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, 

 Texas. A handsome succulent, native to Mozambique, Africa, with terete stems 2 

 to 4 feet high, simple or branched, leafy from about half way up. The opposite, 

 green, elliptical obtuse leaves are glabrous, unspotted, and the pale lemon-yellow 

 flowers are in corymbose cymes 3 to 6 inches across. For trial indoors or in the warm- 

 est parts of the Gulf region and southern California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



78483 and 78485. KALANCHOE SP . From Madagascar. Collected by C. F. Swingle, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, and Dr. Henri Humbert, University of Algiers. A large kalanchoe 

 with thick, entire ovate leaves, rusty and rough above while young but with age be- 

 coming gray, or sometimes glossy. The leaves sometimes become as much as 6 to 8 

 inches long. For trial under glass or outdoors in frostless areas. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



91525. KALANCHOE SP . From Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. Presented by Rev. A. S. 

 Burgess, through C. F. Swingle, Bureau of Plant Industry. Mongy vola. A shrubby 

 succulent about 12 feet high, with thick fleshy lobed, arrow-shaped leaves up to 15 

 inches long. These are rusty tomentose above and silvery below, both surfaces be- 

 coming dingy with age. The pale yellow flowers are borne in ample terminal panicles. 

 N&tive to Madagascar. For trial indoors or in the warmest parts of Florida, Arizona 

 and California. (Glenn Dale, Md. ) . 



98164. KENNEDIA COMPTONIANA ( Ha rdenbe r£ ig comEt on i ana ) * . (Fabaceae.) From Aus- 

 tralia. Presented by F. H. Baker, Richmond. A leguminous twining vine, with leaves 

 composed of three or five leaflets. The present plants are of a woody free-growing 

 form in which the leaves mostly have 5 linear-lanceolate coriaceous leaflets. The 

 flowers, produced in early spring, are light purple to violet and are often obscured 

 by the profuse foliage. Native to Australia. Propagated from seeds and from cut-r 

 tings of firm green wood. For trial in southern California and southern Florida. 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



113770. KUNZEA PEDUNCULARIS. * (Myrtaceae.) From Australia. Presented by the 

 Melbourne Botanic Gardens, South Yarra. A heath-like evergreen shrub, 8 to 15 feet 

 high, allied to the callistemons and with similar cultural requirements. The small 

 white flowers with conspicuous stamens are borne in the upper axils as short corymbs 

 or long leafy racemes. Native to southeastern Australia. For trial in the milder 

 parts of the Southwest and in the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



114761. LANGUAS JAPONICA. (Zinziberaceae . ) From Szechwan Province, China. Re- 

 ceived through the Botanic Garden at Nanking. A subtropical ginger-like perennial 

 with leafy stems about 1-^ feet high, the leaves rather large and lanceolate, about 

 10 inches long and 3 inches wide. The small reddish flowers are in terminal panicles. 

 Native to the warmer areas of Japan. (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



112302. LAPLACEA INTERMEDIA. (Theaceae.) From Ecuador. Collected in Carchi Prov- 

 ince by Mrs. Ynes Mexia, Bureau of Plant Industry. An evergreen shrub, allied to 

 Gordonia, with beautiful glossy light-green foliage on reddish stems. The opposite 

 lanceolate leaves are about 4 inches long, and the white flowers are about 1 inch 

 across. For trial in the warmer parts of the Gulf region and on the Pacific Coast. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



