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Kerstingiella geocarpa, but have only seen it on the two occasions 
ti appears to be very rarely cultivated and not 
generally known. The cultivator of the plot of one-tenth of an acre 
informed me that he got the seed from the Kukuruku country in 
South Kabba two years ago. 
“The Nupe name for it is ‘ Eyeya’ or ‘ Ezokin,’ which latter 
name simply means ‘ bean of the ground,’ 
* The Kukuruku name is ‘ Etami.’ 
“The Hausa name for Voandzeia subterranea, a very general crop 
in Northern eus,: is ‘ Kawaruru’ pronounced by many of the 
Nupe people ‘ Paru 
** Hausas_ to ehh I showed the growing crop of Kerstingiella 
geocarpa called it, without hesitation, ‘ Kawaruru, doubtless owing 
o its general similarity to that crop, but on showing them the 
hicveredl pods they admitted that the crop was quite strange to 
them and that they had no name for it. 
** It would indeed be seein | if two such totally different 
seeds were called ‘ Kawar 
“ The measurement of pa seeds given on page 210 (x. B. , 1912], 
where ‘cm.’ has evidently been written in error for ‘mm., “appears 
to be considerably in excess of that of the present sample. 
* Though most of the po carry either one or two seeds, some 
were noticed containing three 
‘** The crop yielded at the a of 600 lbs. of dry pods per acre. 
* The beans are boiled and eaten in the usual owas no superstition 
here existing as to their unsuitability for wom 
‘* The cultivation is exactly the same as for eae subterranea, 
sowing took Pree this ee in July and harvesting about 34 months 
temperatures averaged approximately 
max. 85° Fr eee min. 70° F. during this time, and the air was 
exceedingly moist. 
‘I have been unable to observe it in the wild state. It is hoped 
to continue the cultivation of this plant as an experimental plot next 
season. 
“ J am also sending by this majl two small samples of the seed of 
Voandzeia subterranea both purchased in Bida. They appeared to 
me to be interesting as illustrating the ~ variety both in size and 
colour which may occur in this species 
The seeds of Kerstingiella geocarpa and Voandzeia subterranea 
have been sent to Natal Botanic Garden, Jamaica, Trinidad, 
Bangalore, ay British Guiana, Queensland, and Adelaide 
Botanic en 
estruction of Albizzia Lebbek in Cairo-—Mr. G. St. C. 
Feilden, Chief Gardener to the City of Cairo, has, at our request, 
kindly sent the followimg note on the mealy bug which has éaused 
such havoc among the Lebbek Trees in the streets of Cairo. 
Until the summer of the year 1909 Cairo contained some thousands 
of fine specimens of Albizzia Lebbek, which formed shady avenues — 
