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though smaller than Tefahi; it is used for oil and pick- 

 ling; Prof. Trabut says 'the oil of Zorctgi is very thick anc 

 heavy and not much appreciated by the natives;' this faull 

 can however, be remedied by mixing with a lighter oil; the 

 Tunisiya, which grows more slender and taller with lightei 

 trunk; the fruit is smaller, and makes a better oil but 

 much inferior producer; the Boo Shookiya, the fruit of 

 which is not so round as Tefahi or Zoragi, but more ova] 

 and has a separate formation at one end resembling s 

 spine, whence its name (meaning producer of spines), 

 (Johnson. ) 



Olearia traversii(M.ueI~L . )Hook . f . ( Asteraceae . )40586 . Plants 

 from Elstree, Herts, England. Presented by the Hon. Vlcariffl 

 Gibbs. "Akeake. A tree twenty to thirty feet high anc 

 sometimes two feet in diameter. This may be considered asi 

 the only valuable timber tree in the Chatham Islands , being 

 durable and not subject to attacks of insects." (Buchanan, 



Trans. Proc. N 



Inst . , vol 



p. 337. ) 



Piptanthus nepalensis (Hook.) Sweet. (Fabaceae.) 40589 

 Plant from Elstree, Herts, England. Presented by the Hon 

 Vlcary Gibbs. "A shrub or low tree with very pithy yo 

 shoots, naturally eight to twelve feet high, but growl 

 taller against walls. In Kew it is deciduous, but 

 milder climates it retains more or less foliage during t 

 winter. Leaves alternate, of three lanceolate stalkle 

 leaflets, three to six inches long, about one-third a 

 wide, smooth except when quite young, dark green above 

 glabrous beneath, the common leafstalk one and one-half t 

 two inches long. Racemes stiff, erect, two to thre 

 inches long, and as much broad, hairy, set with hai 

 bracts. Flowers pea-shaped, one and one-half inches long 

 the stalk up to one inch long and like the brown calyx 

 very hairy; petals bright yellow. Pod three to fiv 

 inches long, three-fourths inch wide. Native of the Hi 

 malaya, introduced to England in 1821. It thrives wel 

 against a wall where it flowers in May, but is not perma 

 nently hardy in the open air at Kew. A shrub of excep 

 tionally vigorous appearance. It is nevertheless not Ion 

 lived. It is easily propagated by seeds, which it ripen 

 in quantity, and owing to its dislike of root disturbanc 

 should be grown in pots until planted in permanence, 

 flowering sprays resemble those of the herbaceous genu 

 Thermopsis." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in th 

 British Isles. ) 



Prunus sibirica L. (Amygdalaceae . )40504. Seeds of th 

 Siberian apricot from Novospasskoe , Russia. Presented b 



