﻿Inventory 48, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate I 



An Important Oil Producer in the Tropics, the Brazil Nut (Berthol- 

 letia nobilis mlers., s. p. i. no. 43114). 



This giant of the Brazilian forests is a stately and imposing ornamental tree. , Its nuts yield, a vege- 

 table oil that deserves considerable attention. Its uses by watchmakers and artists would seem 

 hy no means to delimit its possibilities, although over a million dollars' worth of nuts were im- 

 ported into the United States in 1914 for these purposes and for the edible kernels. The kernels 

 yield approximately 70 per cent of oil. (Photographed by Mr. O. W. Barrett at the B,oyal Bo- 

 tanic Gardens, Port of Spain, Trinidad.) 



