Bui. 445, U. S. Dept of Agriculture. 



Plate II. 



A Typical Fruit of the Selecta Orange and a Longitudinal Section of the Same. 



While normally of the shape shown and devoid of any vestige of a navel, the variety occasionally 

 produces fruits with internal or even externally prominent navels, resembling in every way those 

 of the Bahia or true navel orange. This and other evidence indicates that the Bahia navel 

 originated as a sport or mutation from the Selecta orange, a variety which has been cultivated 

 in Brazil since a remote date and is grown commercially near Kio de Janeiro. Photographed at 

 Kio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 20 and 23, 1914. (Natural size.) 



