feet. The second main branch goes nearly horizontally into a 

 Pterocarpiis tree forty feet away, rests in a crotch there at a 

 height of fifty feet, and then loops down and across some eighty 

 feet to another tree, in which loops may be traced for at least 

 eighty feet more. This branch is therefore approximately 260 

 feet long. Growing thus in the open, where its branches and 

 swinging loops may be easily traced, this climber gives one a 

 vivid impression of the huge dimensions reached by tropical 

 lianas. There is a still larger specimen of the same species 

 growing in the Economic Garden at Buitenzorg, which will be 

 described in that connection. 





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Fig. 18. One of the main avenues through the botanical garden at Buitenzorg. 



There are always several species of leguminous trees which 

 exhibit the drooping young leaves, so characteristic of tropical 

 vegetation. In Anther stia nohilis the leaves are produced in 

 bunches of three. The internodes do not elongate till after leaf 

 expansion is complete, so that the young clusters are quite com- 

 pact. The young leaflets hang vertically along the rachis, and 

 are each folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper side in, 

 and the margins cohering lightly. In the earh' stages, the color 

 is a delicate semi-transparent reddish brown. The terminal 

 leaflet expands most rapidly, and is followed in turn by the 



