102585 AGAVE BREVISPINA. From Kenscoff, Haiti, Collected by the Allison V. 

 Armour Expedition. A stemless, but not caespitose agave, with dull dark-green, 

 broadly lanceolate leaves 3 feet or more long, having small dull-brown spines and 

 narrowly triangular prickles. The yellow flowers are in a dense cluster on a scape / 

 12 feet high. Native to Haiti. For trial in southern Florida and southern Cali- 

 fornia. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



86165. ALBUCA NELSONI . Liliaceae. From South Africa. Presented by Miss Olive 

 Abernathy, Lismore, Umtata, Cape of Good Hope. An herbaceous perennial with a 

 globose bulb 3 to 4 inches in diameter, four to six bright-green lanceolate leaves 

 4 feet long and 2 inches wide at the base, and a stout erect peduncle, 3 feet high 

 bearing a lax raceme a foot long, almond-scented white flowers, 1 to 2 inches long, 

 broadly banded with greenish or reddish brov/n. The three outer petals are spreading 

 and the three inner are shorter and joined together. Native to South Africa. For 

 trial indoors only except in the Gulf region and southern California. (Glenn Dale, 

 Md.) 



S7S44. ALNUS HIRSUTA SIBIRICA. From Japan. Presented by M. Tozawa, Director, 

 Forest Experiment Station, Keijo. A handsome tree, native to Siberia, 60 feet high, 

 of broad-pyramidal habit and vigorous growth, with broadly ovate leaves about 5 inches ^ 

 long, which are dark green above and glaucous beneath. For trial in all except the 

 coldest parts of the northern states. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



S4242. ALOE SCHLECHTERI . From the Union of South Africa. Presented by the Mc- 

 Gregor Museum, Kimberley. An aloe with olive-green leaves about 8 inches long, 

 armed on the margin with brown horny deltoid prickles. The light-yellow flowers 

 are in dense racemes about 6 inches long on short peduncles. For indoor culture 

 only except in the Gulf region and southern California. (Glenn Dale and Chico. 



98010. ALOE SCHLECHTERI. Same source and description as for preceding number 



(S4242). (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



81133 and 88738. ALOE STRIATA. Variety Hanburiana. From Ventimiglia, Italy. 

 Presented by S. Vf. McLeod Braggins, Superintendent, La Mortola. A fleshy plant 

 with a short stem, 1 to 2 feet in old plants, and a rosette of 12 to 30 oblong- 

 lanceolate glaucous leaves l^- to 2 feet long, with a cartilaginous reddish margin. 

 The bright-red flowers are in capitate racemes on a stout much-branched inflorescence. 

 Native to the coast of South Africa. For indoor culture only except in the Gulf 

 region and southern California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



89678. ALOE VACMBE . From Madagascar. Presented by Rev. Andrew Burgess, Behara, 



through C. F. Swingle, Bureau of Plant Industry, A large fleshy plant, becoming 



about 25 feet high, native to sandy places in southwest Madagascar. It has incurved ^ 



reddish spiny leaves 4 feet long, and reddish orange flowers in an erect head of 



50 to 70 flowers. For indoor culture only except in the Gulf region and southern 



California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



99787. ALONSOA ACUTIFOLIA. Alonsoa. From Peru. Collected by H. G. MacMillan and 

 C. 0. Erlanson, Bureau of Plant Industry. Collected at 11,500 feet altitude, in 

 open alpine meadow. An ornamental herb 2 feet high with leaves broad-lanceolate, 

 sharply toothed and bearing orange flowers. It may be grown outside as an annual 

 or indoors in pots for winter blooming. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



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