THE VASCULAR TISSUES AND TRANSPIRATION. 



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of more than \ mm. diameter, and in the species of Botang illustrated in fig. 94 

 they are almost as wide. 



Fig. 94.— Indian Climbing Palms (Rotang). From a photograph, 



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What has been stated here with especial regard to the Rotang or Climbing Palm 

 applies also to all other twining and climbing plants known by the name of lianes, 

 and their sap-conducting tubes are the wider, the longer their stems and the larger 



