PALMS. 



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perhaps the jacitaraj which has a slender, winding stem. 

 Sometimes the crown is more open, as in the inaja — Maxi- 

 miliana regia — in whicli the stem is not very high, and the 



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leaves gTow in cycles of five, separating slightly, so as to form 

 an open vase rising from a slender stem. 



Professor Agassiz remarks that the rest of this trojiical 

 forest is as interesting to the geologist as to the Lotanist, as 



