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the foster-tree like great tentacles which are slowly but surely 

 strangling it. It is but a short step now to the end, for soon the 

 tree, which gave support and a home to the baby plant, loses its 

 life, finally going into decay and falling away, leaving its one-time 

 epiphytic guest master of the situation. 



Fig. 3. A Chisia from Jamaica. (Photograph loaned by Dr. M. A. Howe.) 



This is the tragedy as I saw it enacted many times in the forests 

 of Haiti, where two of the photographs were taken from which 

 the illustrations were made. The scene is laid on the north side 

 of the island, about eighteen miles to the west of Cap Haitien^ 



