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the tree in the case of Bruguiera rheedi ; and it is shown that there 

 is normally little or no room for any rest-period, and that, as with 

 Rhizophora, the seed on reaching maturity begins to germinate. 



(14) Though the seedlings of Rhizophora and Bruguiera could 

 be transported in safety a few hundred miles across the sea, it is 

 held that they could never cross the Pacific and reproduce the 

 plant. That the American species of Rhizophora has reached the 

 Western Pacific from the New World is not accepted. Rather is 

 its present distribution regarded as representing its original wide 

 range over much of the tropical zone. 



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