Inventory 44, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate II. 



The Nariz Tree, Anacardium excelsum (Bert, and Balb.) Skeels, a 

 Relative of the Cashew, at Trinidad, Cuba. (See S. P. I. No. 

 40987.) 



A magnificent South American tree, attaining a height of 65 feet, with an erect compact head of 

 (lurk-green foliage. The truits, which ripen in August, are dark brown, about an inch long, 

 rcniformand flattened, and shaped somewhat I ike a nose, whence the name nariz. Thefrurl stalk 

 is not large and swollen, nor are i he seeds considered edible, as in i in 1 1 ;i hew. The t ree is win thy 

 of trial as anomamental, although thefruit appears to have no value, (.l'hotographed by 'Wilson 

 l'opcnoe, July IT, 1915; P16417FS.) 



