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Lodoicea in the Botanic Gardens of Peradeniya) in 1892, when it 

 was abeady forty years old and had not begun to form its stem. In 

 1907 I took the photograph reproduced in plate 377, which will 

 give an exact idea of the fifteen years' growth. The slower growth 

 would appear to characterise its extreme youth, as, after taking forty 



