. Dates of Egypt and the Sudan. wah date have large heavy trunks with coarse scales from the leafbases and heavy, stiffly spreading tops. The leaves are 14 to 15J feet long, with veryheavy bases, strongly rounded lower rib, which tapers gradually but still remains stiffand heavy at the apex. The spine area is from 2| to 4 feet, the spines very strong andheavy, bluntly acute, from 2 to 8 or 9 inches long. The stiff, coarse pinnae followingthese are 24 to 29 inches long and 1 to 1£ inches broad. They diminish regularly inlength toward the apex and increase in breadth up to 10 or even 11 feet fro
. Dates of Egypt and the Sudan. wah date have large heavy trunks with coarse scales from the leafbases and heavy, stiffly spreading tops. The leaves are 14 to 15J feet long, with veryheavy bases, strongly rounded lower rib, which tapers gradually but still remains stiffand heavy at the apex. The spine area is from 2| to 4 feet, the spines very strong andheavy, bluntly acute, from 2 to 8 or 9 inches long. The stiff, coarse pinnae followingthese are 24 to 29 inches long and 1 to 1£ inches broad. They diminish regularly inlength toward the apex and increase in breadth up to 10 or even 11 feet from the base,being usually 17 to 20 inches long and If to 2 inches broad at 8 to 10 feet from the baseand 11 to 14 inches long and 1£ to l| inches broad at the apex. Many of the upperpinnae have the proximal fold broadened into a wing and are decurrent. The pulvinion the spines are unusually heavy and dark cream colored, being somewhat lighteron the less exposed pinnse. For the first 6 feet of the blade the pinnae comprise only. Fig. 8.—Outlines of the Samany date in rutab(fresh) condition, on the Cairo market, Novem-ber 16,1913; shipped from Edku, on the Mediter-ranean coast. (Natural size.) 34 BULLETIN 271, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. the antrorse and retrorse classes in the paired antrorse-retrorse groups, above whichthe introrse pinnae appear, and also the triple (antrorse-introrse-retrorse) groupswith a few quadruple (antrorse-introrse-introrse-retrorse) groups. In the outer 2 feetof the blade the introrse class predominates, or all classes become merged. The4-ranked arrangement of the pinnae in the blade is strongly maintained, but is espe-cially pronounced in the lower portion, where the bristling ranks of the antrorse pinnaevary strongly from those of the retrorse and give to the leaf a strong attitude of remarkably long and heavy orange-colored fruitstalks of this variety are almostidentifying in their character. They may be 2\ inches in diameter an
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