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perhaps tlio jacitaia, which has a slender, winding stem. 

 Sometimes the crown is more open, as in the inaja — Maxi- 

 miliana regia — in which the stem is not very high, and the 



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Till \haucai:i.\. 



leaves grow in cycles of five, separating slightly, so as to form 

 an open vase rising from a slender stem. 



Professor Agassiz remarks that the rest of this tropical 

 forest is as interesting to the geologist as to the botanist, as 



