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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." (Etsen. ) 
Garcinia loureiri Pierre . (Clusiaceae. )40555. Seeds from 
the Botanic Garden, Bultenzorg, Java. Presented by the 
Director. M Bua nha. A tree forty to sixty feet high 
with opposite branches and coriaceous, nearly. Dblong 
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 . ) 
Lonicera henryi Hemsley . (Caprlf oliaceae. )40585. Plant 
of a honeysuckle from Elstree, Herts, England. Presented 
by the Hon. Vicary Glbbs. "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. Japonica, 
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 Zoragl. 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 80$ or more of all the trees belonging to 
It; it is a heavy bearer and the fruit; ./is quite large, 
