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with fewer, less crowded flowers and in the fruits 
being slightly larger than in the New Guinea, 
Solomon Islands, and New Hebrides trees, but 
it is doubtful if these are points of specific 
value. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
I am indebted to the authorities of the Arnold 
Arboretum (Harvard University) for photostat 
copies of Kanehira’s papers, which were un- 
available to me in Brisbane, and to Mr. E. H. 
Flint of the Queensland University for a trans- 
lation of Kanehira’s original description (in 
Japanese) in Flora Micronesica. 
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