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



Plate XVII. 



The "COUNTESS'S Fruit" (Fruta de condessa). 



ThI.s popular fruit (fiollinla ddicloHU) grow.s wild near lUo <ln .lanoiro. It is pi(^kc(l wliilo .still hard and 

 jjrwnand bron>;htintottif! markets, whcroitKraduallyassuinps a briKht-yellow color and heconics soJt. 

 Itforitiilns nuiiicroN.s dark-brown secdsabout tliesi/.o of an av(!raKol)eun,cacli .surrounded byniilkv 

 white (Irah . whifh is siiRary awect and of good (lavor. I'hotographed at Kio do Janeiro, Jirazil, March 

 KJ, 1914. (Natural .size. J 



