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of Clusia rosea, one of the group of peculiar trees that in the 
British West Indies are known as ‘‘ Scotch attorneys” from their 
habit of starting their growth on another tree and finally strang- 
ling and replacing the host tree by their numerous clasping and 
twining aerial roots. Here, however, the C/usza has evidently 
started on a naked rock, the crevices of which have been pene- 
trated by the creeping roots. As the stem has raised itself in the 
Fic. 10. éalea, at Culebra, Canal Zone, showing a large pendent cluster of fruit. | 
air, aerial roots (Fic. 9) have been sent down from its branches and 
grasping the rock or some part of another tree of the same sort, 
have added their support and anchorage to the growing tree as 
it spreads and sprawls over the barren rocks. In this way a 
dense tangle of branches, roots, and trunks is formed, covering 
sometimes several square rods —a tangle in which individual trees, 
if they exist, can scarcely be distinguished. In habit of growth 
