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successive cuttings two months apart produced 112 

 and 106 nuts, was of this variety. 



Fourth : The Pugai, a very dwarf nut. The name 

 given here is a Bicol name. Specimens which I have 

 from the province of Camarines have the nut proper, 

 7 centimetres in diameter, surrounded by a husk not 

 more than 2 centimetres in thickness. Apparently the 

 same nut is known in Pangasinan as " Piligpog," and 

 the same variety is found also in Zambales. These 

 very small nuts are used as curiosities, one of the eyes 

 being punched out to represent a mouth, so that the 

 germinating end looks like the face of a monkey. They 

 are also used as household banks, or they may be 

 stuffed with candy or sweetmeats. The Pugai is likely 

 to fruit in three years. There is also a variety, very 

 likely identical with this, in India, which fruits in this 

 time, and the same is true of a dwarf variety which 

 was introduced from Ceylon to Madagascar. 



Forms intermediate between the coco nino and the 

 Pugai are the dwarf nut known in the Visayan islands 

 as " Dahili," and probably a nut known in Laguna as 

 " Mangipod." The latter is said to produce fruit when 

 the tree is so small that the cluster rests directly upon 

 the ground. The dwarf Jaffna variety of Ceylon and 

 Kalapa Babi of Java are like the Mangipod or identical 

 with it. 



Clear cut and distinct as are the San Kamon nut, 

 the Laguna nut, the coco nino, and the Pugai, when 

 only these four forms are considered, it would probably 

 not be difficult to collect in the Philippines an unbroken 

 series without a break of 1 millimetre in diameter 

 which should connect the largest nut and the smallest 

 nut ; and while the extremes in some places are perhaps 

 not so great, it would probably be easy to make an 

 equally perfect series as far as it went in every country 

 where coco-nuts constitute an industry. 



Among these varieties, or among the equivalent 

 varieties known in another coco-nut country, choice 

 must be made according to the market on which the 



