Inventory 70, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate I. 



The Pejibaye Palm, the Source of a Staple Food in Costa Rica. 



(GUILIELMA UTILIS OERST., S. P. I. NO. 54776.) 



The date palm, on whose fruit with the luldilion of a few ollur fuoil.-IulTs tliousaiids of Arabs 

 subsist for a large portion of tlie year, finds a tropical Aniirican counterpart in tlie pejiljaye, 

 which since pre-Columbian day.'- has yielded tlie iiriiKijial food of the Indians inhabiting southern 

 Costa Rica. Though its cultivation is now restrictid lo the rfgion between Lake Nicaragua and 

 Ecuador, it can undoubtedly be groxi n in many portions of (he tropical world. (Photographeel 

 by Wilson Popenoe, San Jo-'e, Costa Rica, June 17. I'JL'O; P171I3GFS.; 



