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ovary, which are said to be § in the Triana tree and 2 in Sutton 
whether the petals and sepals are pink or white is of no signifi- 
cance, judging from what I saw of the flowers in Panama. And 
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Fic Fruits and seeds of the Panama mangrove, Pelliciera Rhizophorae. 
About | one eee of the natural size. The sharp points of the beaks of the nearly 
mature fruits were broken off in handling, but naa still — in the pair of very 
immature fruits, In the fruit shown in t oe upper a part of the pericarp has 
been removed, exposing the single seed, i more cn a large embryo 
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fruit. ight in the upper row is an embryo with the two large cotyledons 
partly eee to show the hooked plumule. 
the alleged 5-celled ovary of the more southern tree seems to 
be in need of further investigation, for the original diagnosis by 
Planchon and Triana was confessedly based on ‘‘un exemplaire 
