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graphs of it in various stages of development and also specimens 
of its foliage, flowers, and fruit, for the Garden museum and 
but finally a description of it was located by the Garden’s 
librarian, Dr. John Hendley Barnhart, and located, rather 
curiously, in the Tea or Camellia Family. That its affinities 
were not immediately recognized is not especially surprising, as 
its flowers and fruit are somewhat anomalous in this family, 
Fic. 22. Flowers, flower-buds, and foliage of Pelliciera Rhizophorae. About 
one third of the natural size. The branch at the upper right-hand corner shows a 
lower right-hand corner, the two bracts, here somewhat ere and rolled, are 
well exhibited 
