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Descending 



or so high, with a few large obovate fleshy leaves 

 from the lower part of the stem you will usually find a few long 

 roots, harmless looking and in appearance much like dangling 

 ropes. Here is the beginning of a tragedy, for unless something 



Fig. I. The Clusia forming a trunk and sending out lateral roots. 



happens to kill this young plant, the tree upon which it has found 

 a resting place is surely doomed. 



It is some time before the fate of the foster-tree becomes evi- 

 dent, for the long roots must reach the ground and increase in 

 diameter, several of them finally forming the trunk of the new 



