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



Plate XXIV. 



Fruits and Foliage of the Joazeiro. 



The numerous small green fruits, about the size of a cherry, which become yellow when ripe, have a 

 translucent, viscous pulp surrounding the seeds, which is eaten by the lower classes of natives; but 

 its peculiar, insipid flavor is not particularly agreeable to the average person. As the fruits are 

 produced in the greatest abundance and are eaten by stock, they have more or less economic ini- 

 portance in regions subject to excessively dry periods. Photographed at Januaria, Minas Geraes, 

 Brazil, February 13, 1914. (Natural size.) 



