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trés imparfait."’ The descriptions by Bentham and Hooker and 
by Triana and Planchon were supplemented in an important 
manner in 1879 by W. Botting Hemsley, who in his Botany of 
the Biologia Centrali- Americana published an excellent plate of 
yes 
that the fruit that he had was rather small or immature. It 
is probable that all of the descriptions over-emphasize the 
Rhizophora-like habit of the tree. So far as my recollections 
and photographs go, Pelliciera does not show wholly independent 
proplike aerial roots after the manner of the red mangrove, but 
it is to be borne in mind in this connection that the photographs 
were taken on comparatively high and dry soil and that even 
Rhizophora in its upper ranges has few or no aerial roots serving 
as props, in striking contrast to its habit when invading the 
water from a river-bank or when trying to find anchorage on a 
more or less submerged coral reef. 
As a detail of orthography it is to be noted that Triana and 
Planchon changed Bentham and Hooker’s spelling of the aoe 
name Pelliciera to Pelliceria, even while sa aaee: t 
genus was dedicated to the memory of llaume tee 
bishop of Mon@aes Pica érudit, ee ae: The 
original spelling, however, has been generally maintained and 
would seem to accord better with the spelling of the name of 
the man whom it was the intent to honor 
If any apology is needed for reproducing so many photographs 
as accompany these notes, it may be found, I hope, in the fact 
that, to the best of my knowledge, no photographs of Pelliciera 
have ever before been published and in the further fact that any 
tree that associates with the geologically important and_bio- 
logically interesting red mangrove has more than ordinary claims 
to attention. 
Marsuatt A. Howe. 
