Inventory 38, Seeds and Plants Imported. PLATE I. 



Fruits of the GravatA, a Brazilian Bromelia, S. P. I. No. 36967. 



When the outer skin is peeled back the fruit juices are sucked out. The fruit flesh is trans- 

 lucent, crisp, spicy, and delightfully acid. Under the skin is a laj'^er of cells containing 

 a vegetable acid much stronger than that in the pineapple, which attacks the lips and 

 makes them raw. (Photographed (P15343FS) by Dorsett, Shamel, and Popenoe, Bahia, 

 Brazil, November 29, 1913. Natural size.) 



