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the ordinary pepper by the stalked and larger berries or 
'corns.' The plant is a native of Java, Sumatra , etc., and 
thrives under similar conditions as pepper, requiring live or 
artificial supports and a certain amount of shade. The world's 
supply of cubebs- is obtained chiefly from Java, where the 
plant is cultivated. The plants are best propagated by cut- 
tings taken from among the top or fruitful shoots, such plants 
being more productive than those taken from near the base." 
(MacMillan, Handbook of Tropical Gardening.) For distribution 
later. 
PIPTADENIA SPP. (Mimosaceae. ) 34000-001. Seeds from 
Buenos Aires. Presented by Dr. Carlos Thays , Director, Botan- 
ic Garden. Two trees forming large forests in Argentina, one 
furnishing the angico-gum somewhat similar to gum-arabic, and 
both rich in tannin, the bark sometimes running 40 per cent. 
For distribution later. 
PITTOSPORUM EUGENIOIDES. (Pittosporaceae . ) 34306. Seeds 
of the tarata from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scot- 
land. Presented by Prof. Bayley Balfour, Director. "A beau- 
tiful New Zealand tree whose pale-green leaves with undulating 
margins, emit, when bruised, a lemon-like odor. The delicate 
venation and light-colored, almost white, midrib add to the 
beauty of the leaf. The Maoris mixed the resinous exudation 
from the bark with the juice of the sow-thistle, and worked it 
into a ball, which they chewed. In October the tree produces 
masses of yellowish-green flowers, whose heavy honied odor is 
almost sickly in its intensity. According to Mr. G. M. Thom- 
son, the plant is probably often self pollinated; but Mr. Kirk 
points out in his Forest Flora, that, though stamens and pis- 
tils are always present, one or other is often abortive, so 
that the flowers are often practically unisexual. The wood of 
this species, like that of the other species of the genus, is 
almost worthless. The tree is often cultivated for its beauty, 
and is sometimes - though not so often as P. tenuifolium - 
used to form an ornamental hedge." (Laing and Blackwell, 
Plants of New Zealand.) For distribution later. 
PRIMULA FORRESTII. ( Primulaceae . ) 34308. Seeds of a 
primrose from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland. 
Presented by Prof. Bayley Balfour, Director. "This primrose 
from southwestern China grows to a height of 3 feet, has a 
woody rootstock, and deep yellow flowers with an orange eye. 
Both flowers and foliage are fragrant. First collected by Mr. 
George Forrest, who found them growing pendulous from dry, 
shady crevices of limestone cliffs on the eastern flank of the 
Lichiang Range, northwestern Yunnan, at an altitude of from 
