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PLATE 48. 



Root system of Clermontia Hawaiiensis, growing epiphytically on Acacia Koa (Koa) iu 

 the forests near the N'olcaiio of Kilauea, Pun Oo trail, Hawaii; 4300 feet elevation. 

 Note the twenty-foot-long taproot, which descended throngh the center of the giant 

 Koa trunk; the root was 1..5 inches thick where it entered the ground. 



