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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



87748 to 37798 — Contd. (Quoted notes by Mr. Dorsett and others.) 



37776. CiTBUs siNE^'Sis (L.> Osbeck, Orange. 

 " Laranja dn china. Tree 1-2-1. This is a seedy, sweet 



orange, Inferior in quality to the navel orange and grown princi- 

 pally as a stock plant for the latter. In parts of the interior of 

 Brazil, however, it is commonly grown for its fruit, the navel 

 orange being little known in many of these regions. It is of 

 fair size, usually pale green in color when ripe, with tough rag. 

 many seeds ; juice abundant and of subacid flavor. In Bahia 

 it is not commonly used for stock, laranja da terra being used 

 for this punwse, but in the interior, where the latter is little 

 known, it is more largely utilized. This variety ripens in Balna 

 after the June crop of navels is gone, hence it brings a g 'Od 

 price on the market." 



37777. CiTBUS SINENSIS (L.) Osbeck. Orange. 

 "A seedy orange, said to be identical in character with laranja 



selecta as grown at Bahia, and taken from a tree said by Col. 

 Demetrio Luiz de Souza to have been grown from a bud t-^ken 

 from a navel-orange tree. The tree is 6 years of age. 12 feet 

 in height. 12 feet in spread, head a little less than 2 feet above 

 the ground, spreading in form, with a trunk 1.5^ inches in circum- 

 ference. The foliage is dense, dark green in color ; a few very 

 small thorns. There are 31 fruits in the June crop and 39 in 

 the December, no variations being apparent among them. The 

 fruit is about 3 inches in diameter, with skin one-fourth of an 

 inch thick and core about half an inch in diameter. The rag 

 is tender and the juice very abundant. The fruit shows no 

 sign of a navel and contains about eight perfectly developed 

 seeds. This tree is of special interest because of the possibility 

 of its having arisen as a bud sport or as a reversion of the navel 

 orange to the parent laranja selecta type." 

 37778. CiTRrs grandis (L.) Osbeck. Pummelo. 

 (Citrus decumana Murr. i 

 From the ranch of Dr. Miguel de Teive e Argollo, Roma. Bahia. 

 "A very large pummelo with flesh of rich pink color. A good speci- 

 men weighs 2,000 grams and is 234 inches in circumference, with a 

 diameter of 7^ inches. The skin is 1 inch thick and the core 1^ inches 

 in diameter. The form of fruit is oblate, with a smooth, fine skin, 

 light green in color. The rag is coarse, the flesh rather dry. the flavor 

 sweet and agreeable. One fi-uit contained 102 seeds. This pummelo 

 is not widely known in Brazil. The tree is low and spreading in 

 form, and the fruits are produced in clusters like the grapefruit 

 grown in the United States. It seems to have possibilities as a salad 

 fruit, particularly because of its attractive color as weU as its good 

 flavor." 



37779 to 37782. 



From the grove of Dr. Miguel de Teive e Argollo. Roma. Bahia. 

 37779. CiTBUS BEBGAMiA Risso. Bergamot orange. 



" Tree said by Dr. Argollo to be the Bergamot orange. A 

 typical fruit weighs about 620 grams, is 14t inches in circum- 

 ference, 41 inches in diameter, with skin five-eighths of an inch 

 thick and core a half inch in diameter. The shape is somewiiat 



