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Adriatic and most other figs, and possesses advantages not 

 found in any other fig ripening at the same time, Septem- 

 ber-October. I have not seen the fruit from this tree, 

 but as they were growing in the garden of a friend of 

 mine, I have no doubt but that his statement that the 

 fruit was the very best was true." (Eisen.) 



Garcinia loureiri Pierre . (Clusiaceae . )40553. Seeds from 

 the Botanic Garden, Buitenzorg, Java. Presented by the 

 Director. " Bua nha. A tree forty to sixty feet high 

 with opposite branches and coriaceous, nearly oblong 

 leaves, three to six inches long. The younger branches 

 are nearly square but soon become cylindrical. Flowers 

 inconspicuous. Fruit ovoid, one and one-half Inches long, 

 acidulous, edible. Cultivated throughout the provinces of 

 lower Cochin-China and Cambodia." (Pierre, Flore Forest- 

 iere de la Cochin-Chine.) 



Lojiicera, henryi Hemsley . (Caprif ollaceae. J40585. Plant 

 of a honeysuckle from Elstree, Herts, England. Presented 

 by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs. "An evergreen climber with 

 slender, very downy young shoots. Leaves oblong, with a 

 lance-shaped apex, and a rounded or heart-shaped base, 

 one and one-half to four inches long, three-fourths to one 

 and one-half inches wide, dark green above, paler and 

 rather glossy beneath, downy on the midrib and margins. 

 Flowers purplish red, produced during June at the end of 

 the shoot in a cluster two or three inches across; each 

 stalk is twin-flowered. Fruit blackish-purple. Native of 

 China and Thibet, introduced by Wilson in 1908. It is a 

 free-growing climber of the same character as L. japojiica, 

 which is however very distinct in the big leaf-like 

 bracts." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British 

 Isles . ) 



Olea europea L. (Oleaceae .) 40396-405 . Cuttings of olives 

 from Tunis. Presented by Mr. Bernard G. Johnson. "At 

 Biskra, olives are hardly ever planted from cuttings, but 

 spring up fortuitously from seeds and are then grafted or 

 budded. At least at the Chateau Landon, I was shown the 

 young trees, that had been budded to Zoragi . I have seen 

 numerous old trees where suckers had been permitted to 

 grow to some size, such are called Zaboosh." Among the 

 varieties are "the Tefahi (meaning apple), which is the 

 largest fruited of the olives grown at Biskra, but a light 

 bearer;" the Zoragi, which seems to be the most common at 

 Biskra, probably 80f or more of all the trees belonging to 

 it; it is a heavy bearer and the fruit is quite large, 



