Diospyros Lotus Fruits (S.P.I. No. 40024), Natural Size. 



"A variety of the 'ghoorma' having much larger fruits 

 than the ordinary type, while their color is yellowish. 

 Some of these fruits look so much like miniature kaki per- 

 simmons that one wonders if D. kaki could not have been 

 derived from this species in the remote past." Photograph 

 by Prank N. Meyer, Lian dja pa, Kansu, China, October 20, 

 1914. See Plant Immigrants No. 107, March, 1915, for des- 

 cription of this fruit. 



