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Plate 8. Wallace’s drawing of Oenocarpus bacaba compared with a photograph of the same on the Colombian 
Amazon. The disparity in scale between leaves and trunk and the too small number of pinnae per leaf shown inthe 
drawing are just as mentioned in Spruce’s letter. Photograph from the Botanical Museum of Harvard University; 
drawing courtesy of The New York Botanical Garden. 
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