. Dates of Egypt and the Sudan. reen with heavy waxy bloom. The spine area is 18 to 24 inches, the spines heavy, acute, from2 to 7 or 8 inches long, passing to stiff acute spike pinnae 18 to 20 inches long, one-halfto five-eighths of an inch broad. At about 36 to 40 inches from the base they pass intothe normal pinnae, which are 16 to 18 inches long and 1^ to If inches broad. Theydiminish in size but little till near the apex, where the pinnae are 10 to 12 inches longand 1 to If inches wide. The spines and spike pinnae are set at divergent and defen- 1 In Burckhardts vocabulary of the Nouba la
. Dates of Egypt and the Sudan. reen with heavy waxy bloom. The spine area is 18 to 24 inches, the spines heavy, acute, from2 to 7 or 8 inches long, passing to stiff acute spike pinnae 18 to 20 inches long, one-halfto five-eighths of an inch broad. At about 36 to 40 inches from the base they pass intothe normal pinnae, which are 16 to 18 inches long and 1^ to If inches broad. Theydiminish in size but little till near the apex, where the pinnae are 10 to 12 inches longand 1 to If inches wide. The spines and spike pinnae are set at divergent and defen- 1 In Burckhardts vocabulary of the Nouba language, kulma is the transliteration for big, andthe name may be descriptive of the size of this variety. (Burckhardt, J. L. Travels in Nubia. Ed. 2, London, 1822.) 2 Only two offshoots were secured of this variety. One, from the tree in the Mudirieh Garden at Merowe,from which the description was made, was the gift of Col. H. W. Jackson, governor of Dongola other was the gift of Omda Mohammed Ahmed 30 BULLETIN 271, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. sive angles, about which the pinnae fall into four rather regular ranks, with the valleyof the blade broad. In the apical portion, the pinnae fall mostly into two ranks, lyingnearly parallel at an axial divergence of about 45°. The fruits are 2\ inches long, If inches broad a little above the middle, and taperto a narrower base and an obtuse apex (fig. 7). Their color is yellow, ripening to adull bay (R. II), with the basal portion honey yellow or Isabella color(R. XXX). The rather soft flesh is a dull amber color, the inner portion satiny whitewith a large amount of tough fibrous rag. The flavor is so rich as to be rather cloy-ing, though of a quality which would be attractive to many people. The ratherbroad oval seed is about 1 inch long, corrugated, the germ pore placed somewhatapically, the ventral furrow being narrow and shallow. From its large size, fine appearance, and rich flavor this little-kno
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