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mellow sickening pulp, bitter and nonedible. Geographic 
distribution - Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Liberia, in the 
vast virgin forests. Flowers in May. The timber, reddish 
with beautiful markings, is one of the best African sub- 
stitutes for mahogany." (Translation from the original de- 
scription, Comptes Rendus de 1 ' Academie des Sciences, Par- 
is, Vol. 145, p. 226, 1907.) 
Gaultheria sp. (Ericaceae. ) 41556. Seeds from Bhutan, 
India. Collected by Mr. R. E. Cooper and presented by Bees 
Limited., Liverpool, England, at the request of Mr. A. K. 
Bulley. "A low creeping plant on rock surfaces and peaty 
alpine turf at an elevation of 12,000 feet. Showy blue 
berries are profuse. This is a much larger plant than the 
Gaultheria trichophylla and exists on exposed rock faces with 
only a mere suspicion of soil in occasional crevices." 
(Cooper. ) 
Jubaeopsis caffra Beccari. (Phoenicaceae . ) 41484. Seeds 
from Johannesburg, Union of South Africa. Purchased from 
Mr. J. Burtt-Davy, Botanist, Agricultural Supply Associ- 
ation. "I have just learned of the existence of a grove 
of wild coconut palms along the coast some 70 miles south 
of Port Shepstone. This appears to be a new species of 
coconut, adapted to warm temperate conditions; the nuts are 
said to be smaller than those of the typical Cocos nucifera. 
The fruits have the flavor of coconut, and are much prized 
by the Pondos, who travel scores of miles to collect and 
sell them. They are used as food, and I am told for oil." 
(Burtt-Davy.) "Until quite recently only two genera of 
palm were known from South Africa. A few years ago Mr. 
Charles Ross, then conservator of forests at Umtata, re- 
ported the occurrence of another kind in Pondoland. This 
has now been found to be the representative of a new genus, 
named Jubaeopsis from its nearest ally Jubaea, a monotypic 
genus of South America (Chili). The fruit of Jubaeopsis 
differs from that of Cocos by the position of the germinat- 
ing holes, which in the latter genus are situated near the 
base of the nut, but in Jubaeopsis near its equator. The 
endosperm is hollow, as in the coconut, and also of a 
sweetish taste, but without milk. A tree up to 20 feet 
high, with leaves 12-15, feet long. The staminate flowers 
are inserted on the upper parts of the branches of the 
spadix and possess 8-16 stamens, the pistillate flowers 
being on the lower parts. The fruits are about the size of 
walnuts, but nearly globular', the fibrous pericarp being 
yellow when ripe. The palm occurs, as far as known, only 
at two localities in Pondoland, viz. at the mouths of the 
Umsikaba and the' Umtentu rivers, in both cases on the. 
northern bank and in close proximity to the water. As this 
