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mated that it has borne 20 sets of flowers and fruits and may possibly 
be 20 years old. While all the flowers we have seen are terminal, 
it is possible that they may sometimes occur from other places on 
the terminal joint. In one specimen examined we have found an 
enlarged areole near the base and one on the side of the terminal joint, 
which suggests that they had been flower-bearing. Plumier s illus¬ 
tration, which is not accurate, shows numerous lateral flowers. The 
stubby flowering joints, while usually solitary, appear sometimes in 
pairs. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES 
Plate i 
Plumier’s original illustration of Ncoabbottia paniculata, reduced, repro¬ 
duced from plate of Burmann s Plantarum Americanum. 
Plate 2 
Neoabbottia paniculata (Lam.) Britt. & Rose. A. B. Two types of growth. 
Plate 3 
Neoabbottia paniculata (Lam.) Britt. & Rose, 
open; B, a plant growing in a thicket. 
A, a plant growing in the 
Plate 4 
A Neoabbottia paniculata (Lam.) Britt. & Rose. Upper part of a plant. _ 
B. Ncoabbottia and Ccphaloccreus. a An elongated branch of Neoabbottia; 
e, a terminal branch of Ncoabbottia, fruiting for the first time, c and f, stubb> 
branches of the same, which have produced fruit for many years; b and d, 
small plants of Ccphaloccreus polygonus, growing epiphytically on Ncoab¬ 
bottia. 
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