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the ordinary pepper by the stalked and larger berries or 

 'corns.' The plant is a native of Java, Sumatra , etc., and 

 thrives under similar conditions as pepper, requiring live or 

 rtificial supports and a certain amount of shade. The world's 

 supply of cubebs is obtained chiefly from Java, where the 

 plant is cultivated. The plants are best propagated by cut- 

 tings taken from among the top or fruitful shoots, such plants 

 being more productive than those taken from near the base." 

 (MacMillan, Handbook of Tropical Gardening.) For distribution 

 later. 



PIPTADENIA SPP. (Mimosaceae. ) 34000-001. Seeds from 

 Buenos Aires. Presented by Dr. Carlos Thays , Director, Botan- 

 ic Garden. Two trees forming large forests in Argentina, one 

 furnishing the angico-gum somewhat similar to gum-arabic, and 

 both rich in tannin, the bark sometimes running 40 per cent. 

 For distribution later. 



PITTOSPORUM EUGENIOIDES. (Pi ttosporaceae . ) 34306. Seeds 

 of the tarata from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scot- 

 land. Presented by Prof. Bayley Balfour, Director. "A beau- 

 tiful New Zealand tree whose pale-green leaves with undulating 

 margins, emit, when bruised, a lemon-like odor. The delicate 

 venation and light-colored, almost white, midrib add to the 

 beauty of the leaf. The Maoris mixed the resinous exudation 

 from the bark with the juice of the sow-thistle, and worked it 

 into a ball, which they chewed. In October the tree produces 

 masses of yellowish-green flowers, whose heavy honied odor is 

 almost sickly in its intensity. According to Mr. G. M. Thom- 

 son, the plant is probably often self pollinated; but Mr. Kirk 

 points out in his Forest Flora, that, though stamens and pis- 

 tils are always present, one or other is often abortive, so 

 that the flowers are often practically unisexual. The wood of 

 this species, like that of the other species of the genus, is 

 almost worthless. The tree is often cultivated for its beauty, 

 and is sometimes - though not so often as P. tenuifolium - 

 used to form an ornamental hedge." (Laing and Blackwell, 

 Plants of New Zealand.) For distribution later. 



PRIMULA FORRESTII. ( Primulaceae . ) 34308. Seeds of a 

 primrose from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland. 

 Presented by Prof. Bayley Balfour, Director. "This primrose 

 from southwestern China grows to a height of 3 feet, has a 

 woody rootstock, and deep yellow flowers with an orange eye. 

 Both flowers and foliage are fragrant. First collected by Mr. 

 George Forrest, who found them growing pendulous from dry, 

 shady crevices of limestone cliffs on the eastern flank of the 

 Lichiang Range, northwestern Yunnan, at an altitude of from 



