Inventory 71, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



PLATE V. 



A Jujube for Moist Tropical Regions. (Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.; 

 S. P. I. NO. 55485.) 



The Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) is being cultivated withtgreat success in California and 

 the Southwestern States. It is not successful, however, infsouthern Florida or in humid 

 tropical regions generally. Ziziphus mauritiana, on the other hand, grows and fruits well 

 at the Plant Introduction Garden, Miami. Fla., and will probably be suitable for cultivation 

 in Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines. It is a small tree of attractive appearance, and 

 its greenish yellow fruits, here illustrated in natural size, when stewed are scarcely distin- 

 guishable from the best northern plums. (Photographed by E. L. Crandall, Photographic 

 Laboratory, February 7, 1922; P27245FS.) 



