Inventory 38, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate 



Fruits of the Gravata, a Brazilian Bromelia, S. P. I. No. 36967. 



When the outer skin is peeled back the fruit juices are sucked out. The fruit flesh is tnms- 

 lucent, crisp, spicy, and delightfully acid. Under the skin is a layer of cells containing 

 a vegetable acid much stronger than that in I ho pineapple, which attacks tho lips and 

 makes them raw. (Photographed (P15343FS) by Dorsett, fcjhamel, and l'openoe, Bahia, 

 Brazil, November 29, 1913. Natural size.) 



