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scended the other side of the mountains. It bore fine white flowers. Its crown 

 seemed to be considerably denser and rounder than that of the young specimen, and 

 the general habit that of the Areca palm. Unfortunately it was already too late, 

 and the haste of our guides to reach Lala too great, to allow of my making 

 a drawing of this plant, which stood upon such inaccessible ground that an 

 attempt to fell it and gather its flowers would have required still more time. Of 

 course this leaves it somewhat doubtful whether the one here represented is 

 only a young state of it, or quite a different species. 



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