Inventory 71, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate V. 



A Jujube for Moist Tropical Regions. (Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.; 



S. P. I. No. 55485.) 



The Chinese jujube (Ziziphus ju}uba) is beinK cultivated with prcat success in California and 

 the Southwestern States. It is not successful, however, in southern Florida or in humid 

 tropical regions generally. Ziziphus mauritiava, on the other hand, prows and fruits well 

 at the Plant Introduction (iarden, Miami. Fla., and will iirobably be suitable for cultivation 

 in Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Phihppines. It is a small tree of attractive appearand, and 

 its greenish yellow fruits, here illustrated in natural size, when stewed are scarcely distin- 

 guishable from the best northern plums. (Photographed by E. L. Crandall, Plioiograpliic 

 Laboratory, Febniary 7, 1922; P27245FS.) 



