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prospect of arranging the Indian canes into a series of alliances, although 

 it is not always possible to determine whether similar canes from 



Bristles 



Flange 



Cushion 



Torn leaf scar 



Pig. 8. 



different localities are permanently separable or merely local varieties 

 induced by their special surromidings. A natural system of classifica- 

 tion is being attempted in which the members of the different groups 



Fig. 9. 



resemble one another in as many as possible of the characters referred 

 to above. In such a system agricultural, botanical and chemical 

 characters will all have a place. 



Problem 6. The question now naturally arises, are these characters 



