ILLUSTRATIONS 
IThe plates are from a publication prepared by the writer on Philippine economic-plant diseases 
in the Philippine Journal of Science, Sec. A, 13 (1918) 192-274.] 
Plate I 
Coconut bud rot. Old infection. Entire central group of leaves 
killed and some fallen over. 
Coconut bud rot. Central leaves killed and some fallen over. 
Outer older leaves healthy. 
Coconut bud rot. Diseased central bud fallen over. 
Plate II 
Fig. 1. Coconut bud rot. Young infection, showing unfolded tips of leaves 
newly diseased. From this point the disease advances downward 
into the growing point and more woody portion. 
2. Coconut bud rot. Old infection. Entire “cabbage” and growing 
point softened. 
3. Coconut bud rot. Old infection. Rotted portion just above grow- 
ing point. 
4. Coconut bud rot. Old infection. Characteristic brownish stripe, 
showing limits of infection in the wood. 
5. Coconut bud rot. Disease produced in an injured seedling with 
a pure culture of bacteria similar to Bacillus coli (Escherich) Mig. 
6. Coconut bud rot. Disease produced in an injured seedling with a 
pure culture of bacteria similar to Bacillus coli (Escherich) Mig. 
Plate III 
Fig. 1. Coconut bud rot. Young infection. The fungus entered in young 
leaves at top. Note brownish line of demarcation at the limits 
of the advance in the woody parts. 
2. Coconut bud rot. Young infection starting in at young unfolded 
leaves at top. 
3. Coconut bud rot. Portion just below growing point in “cabbage” 
and young wood. Young infection. 
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