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though its leaves seem to agree fairly well with those of other 
members of the group. The genus, consisting of this single 
species, is given the rank of a tribe or section in most of the works 
that have had to deal with it, and it is quite possible that the 
taxonomists of the future, if modern segregating tendencies con- 
tinue to prevail, will find sufficient grounds for recognizing this 
peculiar tree as the type of an independent family. e idea 
member of the Tea or Camellia Family consorting with the 
red mangroves will at least strike many taxonomists and ecologists 
as a detail of distribution and adaptation that has not been 
poner! emphasized in botanical literature. 
appears that this mangrove, which thus far in our discussion 
has ne nameless, was first described by Bentham and Hooker 
in 1862 under the name “ Pelliciera, Planch. et Trian. gen. nov.” 
Later in the same year, in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 
Triana and Planchon described it further and added the specific 
n Rhizophorae, presumably in allusion to its association 
with the red mangrove Raion Mangle). Specimens of t 
tree were probably first collected by the Colombian botanist, 
José Triana, about the mouth of a water-course on the Bay of 
of Colombia. This locality is on the Pacific coast and is about 
400 miles south of the city of Panama, near which city my speci- 
mens were obtained. At about the same time that Triana was 
collecting a specimen of the tree on the shores of the Bay of 
Buenaventura, or probably a little late Dr. Sutton Hayes found 
it growing with mangroves ‘‘in the Rio Grande swamps,” which 
is doubtless just where I found it ites years later, the Rio Grande 
now forming the Pacific end of the Panama Canal. Triana’s 
scanty specimen, brought by him to France, and the more ample 
specimens sent by Sutton Hayes to the Royal Botanic Gardens 
at Kew, England, appear to have formed, essentially, the basis 
of the published knowledge of this peculiar tree, though the 
species has since been reported for one locality in Costa Rica by 
John Donnell Smith. Triana’s specimen from southern Colombia 
and Sutton Hayes’s from Panama seem to have agreed except 
as to the color of the flowers and the number of loculi in the 
