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Foliage—Of medium density. Leaves flat or slightly recurved, medium in 
number, rather small, some in clusters. 
Blade: Size varies much (4 by 2 to ? by 32 inches; average medium, 4 by 34 
inches; ratio of width to length, about 1:6). Shape narrow-elliptical, usually 
widest near middle. Base acute; origin of margins usually unsymmetrical. 
Apex sharply acute. Margin finely crenate; crenations shallow. Midrib and 
veins fine, distinct, very slightly elevated on lower surface. 
Petiole: Varies in length (average ~ inch) and stockiness, usually slender; 
ratio of length of petiole to length of blade, about 2:7. Green. Groove usually 
wide and quite deep, slightly tinged with red in autumn. Glands two to four, 
small, yellowish, round, oval, or bractlike. 
Bearing habit.—Produces light crops on the average, but bears better than 
the Rock type Jordan. Nuts mostly single on spurs on 3-year-old wood, but 
some on wood 2 to 4 years old and on last year’s laterals. Aborted, deformed, 
and dried up kernels are common. Spurs long but variable (4 to 2 inch) and 
medium to quite stocky (+ to #s inch) ; expands gradually to small, wide oval, 
or nearly round disk (3% by +s-++inch in diameter). Buds smaller than in the 
Rock type Jordan, short and bluntly pointed; scales medium size, reddish 
brown, rather thick, with considerable pubescence, but not nearly so much as In 
the Rock type Jordan. 
NUT 

Immature nut.—Size average large (2 by 14 by 1 inches). Shape rather 
plump; oval or slightly ovate-oval, part on ventral side of axis oval, part on dor- 
sal side obleng-ovate. Ventral edge curves sharply, especially at apex; ventral 
suture depression distinct (s: inch wide, ¢; inch deep), no ventral ridge. 
Dorsal edge plump, rather straight in middle, curving sharply at base and apex. 
Base plump, rather rough; Slightly sloping dorsally or at right angles to axis, 
depressed slightly on ventral edge; dorsal shoulder square but not prominent. 
rounds off suddenly 3 inch from center of. disk; stem cavity + inch across or 
slightly more. Apex round or very broadly tapering; ventral edge sharply 
rounding; dorsal edge curving rather abruptly at immediate apex; style drops 
quite late; rudiment rather large, very pubescent. 
Hull: Outer surface green, turning greenish yellow upon dehiscing; pubes- 
cence very long, abundant, coarse, gray, woolly. Color of inner surface turns 
rapidly from green to brown during dehiscence. Dehiscence starts along ven- 
tral edge, usually beginning at base, one half drying faster than the other and 
curling inward; frequently a horizontal or oblique crack appears above the 
apex and goes halfway or more through the hull. Ripens September 15 to 
October 15, depending upon season and locality. 
Hulled nut.—(Pl. VIII, B.) Size large (12 by 8 inches). Number to the 
pound, 80 to 100. Percentage of kernel to nut in hand-cracked samples, 30. 
Shape: Long, but entirely different from the Rock type Jordan; long-ovate; 
plump at base as a rule (viewed edgewise, long-ovate with cuneiform apex). 
Ventral edge much curved, but gradually curved, never having angle in middle, 
straightest near middle. but gradually curving clear to the pointed apex. Wing 
medium thick and medium in prominence. Long, wide, shallow indentation 
along ventral edge on one side of wing. Dorsal edge quite straight, plump; 
dorsal ridge narrow, but seldom prominent. Base plump; ventral shoulder 
rounding; dorsal shoulder square; stem scar medium to large, oval, slightly 
depressed, generally at right angles to axis, sometimes slightly sloping dorsally. 
Apex pointed; ventral edge much curved, approaching tip at nearly a right 
angle to axis; dorsal edge curves in slightly. Point of nut broad scimitar 
shape. Viewed edgewise, apex is rather thin and somewhat cuneiform. 
Shell: Hard, thick, but not so thick as in the Rock Jordan. Usually light 
brown in color. Pits medium in number, irregular in shape. Very shallow de- 
pressions between pits of same size as pits. Small and shallow short grooves 
on ventral edge at base. No difference in hardness between outer and inner 
sheli. Canals medium to small, round, halfway between outer and inner 
surface. Fibers medium to small. Inner surface of shell light brown; usually 
smooth and regular. Ventral streak usually light brown, but darker in color 
than the rest of the surface, medium to long, medium in width, base slightly 
pointed. 
Kernel: Doubles occasional (3 to 5 per cent). Quite large (average, 1} by 3 
by zs inches), rather flat, fills shell cavity. Attractive in appearance. Shape 
varies, generally ovate or elliptical in flat view, usually ovate in edgewise view. 
Ventral edge curved less than in the Rock type Jordan. Dorsal edge straight 


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