40 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 
32697 to 32702— Continued. 
32701. Berberis gagnepaini C. K. Schneider. Barberry. 
"An elegant evergreen barberry of compact growth, flowering freely during 
June in this country. The pale-yellow flowers are succeeded by glaucous 
. purple berries." 
Distribution. — Slopes of the mountains at an elevation of 10,000 feet in north- 
eastern India and western China. 
32702. Iris wilsoni C. H. Wright. Iris. 
"A new species, resembling Iris sibirica in habit. Flowers pale yellow, 
outer segments veined red brown, borne on stems 8 to 12 inches high. First 
flowered in July, 1909, at Coombe Wood." 
Distribution. — Known only from western China. 
32703. Campomanesia sp. 
From Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay. Presented by Dr. Moises S. Bertoni, Estacion 
Agronomica. Received February G, 1912. 
^Ikvavira.^ 
32704 and 32705. 
From Inhamban, Portuguese East Africa. Presented by Mr. Pliny W. Keys, 
Methodist Episcopal Mission. Received February 6, 1912. 
Seeds of the following; quoted notes extracted from Sims' s Forest Flora of Portu- 
guese East Africa : 
32704. Garcixia sp. 
il Pembe. Either a branched bush, an erect tree, or a bushy tree; in each 
case the stems set with numerous firm, little, more or less evergreen branches, 
which give the tree a pyramidal shape. Leaves usually in threes or opposite. 
Fruit 1 to 2 inches long, oblong, edible, yellow at first or when ripe, two seeded, 
and used by the natives to make a fermented liquor. Abundant in sandy 
soil through the M'Chopes country to Inhamban." 
32705. Strychnos gerrardi N. E. Brown. 
"Quaqua. A small tree, 3 to 10 meters high, without thorns, and with ex- 
ceedingly variable leaves. Fruit one celled, globose, 5 to 7 centimeters in 
diameter, small, thin, spotted, with a hard shell, and numerous flat seeds 
lying in an acidulous edible pulp. Abundant from Natal to Inhamban, and 
especially on the sandy soils." 
32706. Abies numidica De Lannoy. 
From Babois, Algeria. Presented by Dr. L. Trabut, Algiers, Algeria. Received 
February 6, 1912. 
"This tree grows with the cedar. It is a very splendid tree, flourishing here at 
1,800 meters." (Trabut.) 
Distribution. — A tree, sometimes 75 feet high, found on the slopes of mountains at 
an elevation of 5,000 to 7,000 feet, in the Province of Constantine, in the northern part 
of Algeria. 
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