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fig- 55- Why he should call this a lotus hid is not 

 clear. Can it be because it has a conical outline, 



Fig. 55. — Pine tree from Persepolis (' Porter's Travels in 

 Georgia, Persia, etc.'). 



like that of a lotus bud ? There cannot, however, be 

 even the shadow of a doubt that this so-called lotus 

 bud is only a small reproduction of fig. 55 — simply a 



