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75565. MELALEUCA NODOSA. From Melbourne, Australia. Obtained from the Melbourne 

 Botanic Gardens, through Miss Anne Macllvaine, Trenton, N. J. A tall smooth shrub, 

 native to Australia, with rigid awl-shaped leaves and small heads, half an inch in 

 diameter, of pale-yellow flowers. For trial in the warmer parts of California and 

 the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



90716. MELALEUCA PUBESCENS. From New South Wales, Australia. Presented by the 

 Director, Botanic Gardens, Sydney. A tall shrub or small tree native to Australia. 

 The small, linear leaves, half an inch long, are crowded on the pubescent branches 

 and the small v/hite flowers are borne in loose, cylindrical spikes. For trial in 

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



75567. MELALEUCA STYPHELIOIDES . From Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Obtained 

 from the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, through Miss Anne Macllvaine, Trenton, N. J. 

 A tall Australian tree, sometimes 80 feet high, with thick spongy bark. The leaves 

 are very small, and the small creamy white flowers are in dense spikes about 2 inches 

 long. For trial in the warmer parts of California and the Gulf region. (Chico, 

 Calif.) 



67086. MELALEUCA WEBSTERI . From Blackwood, South Australia. Presented by Edwin 

 Ashby, "Wittunga." An Australian shrub with opposite, narrowly oblong thick leaves 

 about one-third of an inch long, and roundish heads of small white flowers. For 

 trial in the warmer parts of California and the Gulf Region. (Chico, Calif.) 



64192. MYOPORUM INSULARE. From Morocco, Africa. Collected by David Fairchild, agri- 

 cultural explorer, Bureau of Plant Industry. The principal hedge plant and windbreak 

 of the Moroccan coast. It stands clipping well, grows easily from cuttings, is an 

 evergreen of a pleasing dark-green color, will stand a few degrees of frost and makes 

 a dense windbreak. For trial along the coast of the milder parts of California and 

 the south. (Chico, Calif.) 



63629. MYROXYLON SENTICOSUM. Flacourtiaceae . From Canton, China. Collected by 

 F. A. McClure, agricultural explorer of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Chinese name 

 Kai na lak - A very ornamental and shapely large shrub or small tree, having dense, 

 glossy foliage, and producing an abundance of small, dark-red fruits which are borne 

 in short-stemmed clusters along the branches. For trial in the warmest parts of 

 California and the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



90065. NECMAMMILLARIA SP . Cactus. From Mexico. Collected by Dr. Donald Reddick, 

 Cornell University, in collaboration with Paul Russell and Max Souviron, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. A cactus with pink flowers, found on open, bare rock. For trial in- 

 doors only except in the milder parts of the southwest. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



103741. NECMAMMILLARIA MACDOUGALII . Presented by Boyce Thompson Southwestern 

 Arboretum, Superior, Arizona. A flattened globular cactus 3 to 4 inches in diameter, 

 with a carrot-shaped root. The axils of the flattened, somewhat angled tubercles of- 

 ten bear long white wool, and from the tops of the tubercles appear 10 to 12 radial 

 spines, white or yellowish and about -^-inch long. The cream-colored flowers are an 

 inch or more long, and are followed by club-shaped red fruits. Native to southeastern 

 Arizona. For trial indoors only except in the milder parts of Californio and the 

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



