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A WEST AFRICAN OIL PALM, NEAR BAHIA, BRAZIL. (ELAEIS 

 GUINEENSIS. SEE S. P. I. NO. 36973.) 



Thf rapidly growing importance of the vegetable oils and the 

 rank taken by this palm as 1 an oil producer make it worth 

 calling to the special attention oi tropical plantation owner-. 

 In West Africa plantations of great si/e are being planted, 

 and the British soap manufacturers have been recently iriven 

 immense concessions of land in the Belgian Kongo for its 

 culture. Like the coconut palm, this species deserves to be 

 planted widely in the American Tropics, where it is as vet 

 little known. (Photographed bv P. II. Dorsett at Cabulla, 

 Bahia, Bni/il. December 1:5. l!)i:5: PU:>o ( .iKS.) 



