104 DATE VARIETIES AND DATE CULTURE IN TUNIS. 



also to the base, orange rufous (IV, 13) before maturity, maroon (IV, 2) 

 when ripe, its skin ochraceous (V, 7) colored where loose, shiny; flesh 

 soft, 4 to 6 mm. thick ; seed a little more than half as long as the fruit, 

 ffencrullj/ ronxvicuoHxli/ jtointcd at the ape,v and often narrowed to the 

 base, very smooth, chestnut (IV, 9) colored; the ventral channel more or 

 less closed; giant cells mostly rounded (a few with rounded angles), 

 either spherical or short elliptical (1 to 2 times as long as wide), rufous 

 (IV, 7) colored, branches of the fruit clusters maize .(VI, 21) yellow. 



Deglet Noor (p. 03). 



White fibrous lining strongly developed throughout the length of the central 

 cavity; seed generally rounded at both ends, rough, light colored (cin- 

 namon (III, 20) to Isabella (III, 23) brown). 



Ripe fruit dark prune purple, its skin adhering closely to the flesh, (very little 

 blistered or wrinkled), conspicuously marked with transverse and longi- 

 tudinal linear scars; fruit 40 to 45 mm. long, narrowed from about the 

 middle to the rounded apex, keeping its shape perfectly when ripe; 

 flesh about 4 mm. thick, firm but tender ; seed 22 to 23 mm. long, nearly 

 one-half as wide, widest near the middle, rounded at the ends, the ventral 

 channel closed; giant cells very small, the majority angular (generally 

 somewhat regularly quadrangular), but many spherical or pear-shaped, 

 rarely more than one and one-half times as long as wide, orange rufous 

 (IV, 13) colored; branches of the fruit clusters bright orange. 



Khalt Mooashem (p. 81). 



Ripe fruit not darker in color than purplish maroon (IV, 2), much of the skin 

 blistered, not scarred. 



Branches of the fruit clusters maize yellow (VI, 21) ; fruit 40 to 42.5 mm. 

 long, narrowed from about the middle to the rounded apex, between 

 maroon (IV, 2) and prune purple (VIII, 1) when ripe, with considerable 

 bloom; skin where loose tawny ochraceous (V, 4), somewhat shiny; 

 flesh about 4 mm. thick ; seed about two-fifths as long as the fruit, 

 about one-third as wide as long, cinnamon brown (III, 20), the ventral 

 channel open, the germ pore above the middle; giant cells very uniform 

 in shape and size, nearly all rounded and spherical, ferruginous (IV, 10) 

 in color Khalt Deglaowia (p. 82). 



Branches of the fruit clusters orange (VI, 3), fruit 45 to 50 mm. long or. if 

 shorter, the ripe fruit bay colored (IV, 5) and the giant cells mostly 

 sharp-angled. 



Fruit 40 mm. long, narrowed from near the base to the rounded apex, dull 

 orange before maturity, bay colored (IV, 5) when ripe, skin where 

 loose tawny olive (III, 17), somewhat shiny; flesh about 3 mm. thick, 

 rather tough ; seed 23 to 25 mm. long, about one-third as wide, the ven- 

 tral channel open ; giant cells very diverse in shape and size, the great 

 majority sharp-angled (very few spherical), and irregularly triangular 

 or quadrangular in outline, sometimes irregularly club-shaped or cigar- 

 shaped, often sharp-pointed or even aristate, more than half of them 2 to 

 3 times as long as wide, orange (VI, 3) to orange rufous (IV, 13) in 

 color Karooy (p. 89). 



Fruit 45 to 50 mm. long; giant cells all rounded or, if sharp-angled, the color of 

 the fruit dark (between maroon (IV, 2) and prune purple (VIII, 1) 

 and the flesh 4 to 6 mm. thick. 



Flesh only 3 mm. thick, translucent, soft, sugar not crystallizing on the cut 

 surface; fruit 50 mm. long, tapering from at or near the base to the 

 somewhat pointed apex, light orange before maturity, bright bay (IV, 

 5) when ripe; skin where loose ochraceous (V, 7), shiny; seed about 

 one-half as long as the fruit, about two-fifths as wide as long, deeply 

 furrowed at base, the ventral channel open; giant cells all rounded (or 

 a few very indistinctly angled), the majority elliptical (1^ to 2 times as 

 long as wide), a few spherical, orange rufous (IV, 13), of nearly the 

 same size and color as in the Deglet Noor (see above )Selatny (p. 93). 



Flesh 4 to 6 mm. thick, sugar crystallizing conspicuously on the cut surface; 

 fruit 45 to 50 nun. l<i<i< dull orange red before maturity, dark maroon 

 (IV, 2) to prune purple (VIII, 1) when ripe. 



Fruit narrowed from at or near the base to the someivhat pointed apex, skin 

 where loose tawny (V, 1) ; seed 25 to 26 mm. long, about one-third as 

 wide, more or less truncate at apex, the ventral channel open or partly 

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