

PI. 215. 



A COLLECTION OF GUATEMALAN CHAYOTES. 



(CHAYOTA EDULIS JACQ., ,<?. P. I. NOS. 4SS9S-4S401 .) 



Mr. Wilson Popenoe has sent in from the city of Guatemala a very interesting collection of the 

 typos of chavott' which are grown there. It is particularly interesting to observe the 

 variation in this fruit, since there is only one species known in the genus. It would 

 appear to be a very old cultivated plant in Guatemala. It is still an open question 

 whether the smooth types of fruit with scarcely any longitudinal furrows, although 

 more convenient for cooking, will yield as abundantly or have as fine a flavor and texture 

 as the furrowed form already growing in Florida and Louisiana. (Photographed by 

 E. L. Crandall, October 11, 1916; P20016FS.) 



