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An up-close photograph of sorghum. Height 4.50 meters high, head 45 cm, nodes 18.

An up-close photograph of sorghum that is a stem with branches from four first nodes. Height 3.25 meters high, head 45 cm, nodes 12.

An up-close photograph of sorghum that is a stem with branches are nodes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. Height 4.56 meters high, head 42 cm, nodes 17.

An up-close photograph of sorghum. Height 4.09 meters high, heads 48 cm; 40 cm; 43 cm; 36 cm; 36 cm; 30 cm; 36 cm, nodes 15.

A photograph of tall sorghum, left to right.

A photograph of tall sorghum, left to right.

A photograph of tall sorghum from left to right.

Tall ribbed trees - look really like desert shrub overgrown - these may suffer drought - I see no other way in which these could develop as they do. [Shantz travel journal, May 15, 1920]

Sansevieria very tall in fore - a small leaf orange fruited shrub in fore, cucurbits etc. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 12, 1920]

A photograph of 12 feet high sorghum. Homer Shantz is standing among the sorghum, touching one of the stalks.

Photo of [Tamarindus indica] tree showing large trunk and spreading branches. Capt. Scobie and Mrs. Hodges. Tamarindus indica - the largest tree on the island - ripe pods sent in.... Pods vary from 1 seed to 10 or so or 1/2 to 6 inches in length.…

Tamarix dunes and Portuguese graveyard in back. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

White sand dunes & Tamarix and grass. Looking west ... quarantine bldgs. in back. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

Shows dunes with Tamarix, the chief plant on the island in the draws or dunes. There is some alkali in spots but apparently too little water for it to become a harmful factor. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

Sand dune with Tamarix in bloom in fore - St. Vincent in back. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

Tamarix at front of Portuguese cemetery. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

A photograph that shows the target from the place where the bowmen will shoot.

Condolence card for Alfonso De la Torre’s death