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known, are woody climbers, covered with peculiar flowers having 
long-clawed, usually yellow, petals. Those in the genera Tet- 
unm, De anax, Didymopanax and Ore oi ax, are of elegant 
appearance, somewhat resembling our horse-c Their 
wood is soft, almost fleshy, and one wonders how the trees can 
maintain themselve 
n these forests ae Cinchonas are at home. In their natural 
forest habitat they grow with tall, graceful trunks, develop 
hands crowns of lustrous foliage and are densely covered 
with are like panicles of ae ant ea white, rosy, lilac or 
viole ere em in flocks and trans- 
fer te pollen, this resulting i ey are now 
cultivated in large pacenued growing thus with a spreading 
it li ry tree. T 
urs. 
lated and similar genera of shrubs. Coccoc cypselum isa slender 
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leaves and clusters of white feathery ee which are produced 
