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Fig. 7. About 2 1/2 m wide base of Fagara mayni along trail to Valle Anson, Masatierra. Length 

 of carpenter's rule placed above the base 52 cm. • — Photo 28/12 1916. 



tall but rarely exceeding 10 m, with a straight, stout trunk ^/g — i m thick, some- 

 times divided from the base which in the fog region attains a very large size, 

 2 m across or even more (PI. 96:1). PI. 58:1 shows ordinary specimens with 

 few main branches and a dense head. Bark smooth, thin (1.5 — 2 mm), light 

 gray when young, later darker, thicker, cracked and more or less covered with 

 bryophytes and lichens. Young leaves tender, upper surface more or less crimson- 

 coloured and contrasting with the glaucous bloom of the lower side; mature 

 leaves thin leathery, bright green above, lighter than the luma leaves and making 

 the canelo trees stand out well even from a considerable distance. The pseudoterm- 

 inal and axillary, umbel-like panicles are well exposed and sprinkle the head 

 with white blotches. They develop from early spring to summer and are protected 

 in bud by a set of reduced leaves. The terminal bud of the vegetative-floral 

 shoots appears, as a rule at least, to die, and axillary innovations grow out during 

 the summer, ending in a bud covered by scalelike leaves which remain reduced 

 and very small when growth starts anew (Fig. 8 b; comp. Dri)iiys W'hi/eri, Raun- 

 kiaer /. 35, fig. 15 A). In D. confertifolia the innovation begins with a few very 

 short internodes between the reduced leaves, succeeded by prolonged internodes 

 with normal leaves, followed by short internodes causing the leaves to become 

 crowded toward the tip of the branch; hence the specific epithet. I have seen 



