THE BOTTLE-TREE, 
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sawn planks ; as, for instance, in the Bonibax Ceiba, one 
of til© most remarkable ea:amples of this wonderful device 
of Nature. 
In other cases we find the roots fantastically spreading 
and rerelling in a variety of gi'otesque shapes, such as 
we nowhere find in the leas esnberant vegetation of 
Europe. Thus, in the india-rubber tree, masses of the 
roots appear above ground, extending on all sides from 
the base, and writhing over the surface in serpentine 
undulations, so that the Indian villagers give it the 
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