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STELLENBOSCH 
Cape Province 
Botanic GARDENS OF THE UNIVERSITY 
Head: G. C. Nel (1937). 
WHITEHILL (Near Matjesfontein, Cape) 
Karoo GARDEN 
Established: 1921. The land was given to the a of the 
National Botanic Gardens by the late J. D. Loga 
Area; 20 morgen (= about 40 acres). About “ Natural Re- 
serve, and protected from grazing and planting. 
Director: R. H. Compton (1921- ). Karoo Garden is under 
the same control as Kirstenbosch, viz., National Botanic Gardens 
of South Africa. Mail address: Kirstenbosch, Newlands, C. P., 
South Africa. 
Open free on week days during work hours. Source of income: 
Grant from the Botanical Society of South Africa; donations, 
sales. Does not receive Government funds. Library: Small ref- 
erence. Herbarium now being established. Plantations: Culti- 
vated area divided into sections on a geographical basis, e.g., Little 
Karoo, Southwest Africa, Hex River district, ete. Succulent flora 
chiefly dealt with, and planted according to districts. See Kirsten- 
bosch. 
Spain 
BARCELONA 
Jarpi BotANic DE BARCELONA 
Institut Botanic, Carrer de Sant Gervasi 94 
Established: 1916, in the public gardens of the Pare de la Ciuta- 
della; transferred in 1931 to Montjuic. 
Area: 8 hectares. 
Director: P. Font Quer (1916- ys 
Open every work day with the director’s authorization. Source 
of income: Annual appropriations of the Government of the Gen- 
eralitat de Catalunya, and from the city. Library (of the saa 
Botanic de Barcelona) : 2500 volumes, 500 pamphlets. 
rium (of the Tnstitut Botanic) : 212 000 specimens of wean 
gams; 14,000 cryptogams. Plantations: Geographic, systematic, 
medicinal plants. Publication: Index Seminum. Living material 
supplied to schools for study. 
