12569. OLEA EURO PEA, 



Barouni de Sousse Olive. From Sasa, 

 Tunis, Africa, through T. H. Kearney. 

 The largest fruited olive of the Tu- 

 nisian region. Culture confined ex- 

 clusively to Sahel and Kalaa-Srira. 

 One of the best of the green table 

 olives. 



13567. OLEA EUROPAEA. 



Chemlali Olive. From Tunis, North 

 Africa, through Thomas H. Kearney. 

 Small oil-producing olive, grown in 

 immense plantations around Sfax 

 where only from 5 to 10 inches of rain 

 falls, irrigated for first two or three 

 summers only. Orchards created by 

 planting pieces of wood from bases of 

 old trees. Promising variety for 

 California, because of robust growth. 



33783. OLEA FOVEOLATA. 



Olive. From Chas. P. Lounsbury, East 

 London, Cape Colony. Shrub, native 

 of south Africa, twelve feet in height, 

 ashy-gray branches; smooth, leathery, 

 oblong-elliptic leaves; small flowers 

 in short axillary cymes, and smooth 

 oblong fruits half an inch long. In- 

 troduced for experiments as a possible 

 stock for the cultivated olive. 



