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Agave or ‘century-plant”’ growing near them were sending up 
Jowering-stalks to a height of from four to ten feet. These 
stalks sometimes bore bulbils in the place of flowers and some- 
times both flowers and bulbils in a single inflorescence. Livi 
specimens of the Agave, the three cacti, and of two orchids were 
crated and forwarded to the Garden, where they are now grow- 
ing in the propagating houses, in spite of the fact that they 
Fic. 9. Aerial roots of C/usia rosea on a rock-islet near Poe ene Island, Bay 
of Panama, The waters of the Bay are shown at the lower left-hand c 
reached New York during the severe winter weather of the 
recent Christmas holidays. 
Near the island of Taboguilla are several more or less dome- 
shaped rock-islets rising abruptly from thirty to eighty feet above 
the high-water mark and crowned with a densely interlaced tangle 
