A WEST AFRICAN OIL PALM, NEAR BAHIA, BRAZIL. (ELAEIS 
GUINEENSIS. SEE S. P. I. NO. 36973.) 
The rapidly growing importance of the vegetable oils and the 
rank taken by this palm as an oil producer make it worth 
calling to the special attention of tropical plantation owners. 
In West Africa plantations of great size are being planted, 
and the British soap manufacturers have been recently given 
immense concessions of land in the Belgian Kongo for its 
culture. Like the coconut palm, this species deserves to be 
planted widely in the American Tropics, where it is as yet 
little known. (Photographed by P. H. Dorsett at Gabulla. 
Bahia, Brazil, December 13. 1913; P14509FS.) 
