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1909, I was impressed by curious, large, ovoid, top-shaped, 
long-beaked, corrugated, brown fruits that were frequent on the 
mangrove mud at ebb tide. It required scarcely more than the 
Fic. 17. The Panama mangrove, Pelliciera Rhizophorae, at Balboa, Canal 
fee 
A well- ele as tree about 25 t high growing on alluvial mud near the 
nes line. This tree has been isolated by clearing ie in the swam 
he red mangrove a Mangle) is shown at the left. 
lifting of the eyes to discover the source of these strange fruits. 
The trees that bore them were growing in company with the 
red mangrove (Rhizophora Mangle), the white mangrove (Lagun- 
