Inventory 48, Seeds and Plants I mported. 



Plate I. 



An Avenue in Buitenzorg Lined with Java Almond Trees (Canarium 



INDICUM Stickm., S. p. I. No. 43024). 



The stately Java almond, generally acknowledged to be one of the most beautiful of avenue trees, 

 yields an abundance of large-kemeled edible nuts, similar to the piJi nut of the Philippines. The 

 oil from this nut has been used by certain Dutch doctors to make an emulsion for an mfant food, 

 and its possibilities as a special oil for infant feeding deser\'e study. Seeds have been secured for 

 trial in the Panama Canal Zone. (Photographed by Dr. M. Treub, Buitenzorg, Java, Feb. 10, 1909.) 



