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Christmas time or early in January, and the trees are commonly 

 bare the latter part of January and a considerable part of Feb- 

 ruary and March, during which months the numerous pale rose- 

 colored, clustered flowers appear, followed by the pods and the 

 leaves. Individual trees, however, behave very differently from 



Figure 4. Ceiba, at Mandeville, Jamaica. 



others. The photographs reproduced in our Figures 2 and 6 

 were taken on the same day early in March in Nassau, but the 

 two trees^ there represented are shown in quite different guises. 

 The old tree in the rear of the Public Buildings, represented in 

 Figure 2, had at the time one large branch which had apparently 



