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further inquiries, and at length to the recognition of 

 the plant by Mr. Hart, Superintendent of the Botanic 

 Garden at Trinidad. There the tree still grows. It 



FIG. 70. Fruit of Saccoglottis amazonica. From paper on a Jamaica Drift-fruit 

 by D. Morris (Nature, Nov. 21, 1895). i, fruit with fleshy expcarp removed, 

 as in drift-fruits. 2, cross-section, showing the numerous cavities. 3, longi- 

 tudinal section. 



was botanically described by the former Director of 

 the Trinidad Botanic Garden, Dr. Criiger, in 1 86 1. 

 The tree is named Sacoglottis amazonica ; it is rare in 



