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Among the beautiful trees of this Island there is one, PITHECOLOBIUM PRUINOSUM, possessing features of attraction during successive phases of growth. The young branches, foliage, and inflorescence, are coated with minute silky hair, as if dusted with bronze of golden tint.
"Five petals of the corollary partly united? Why, it must be some relation to the Mexican rain-tree," she mumbled without enthusiasm. "Leaves alternate, bi-pinnate, very typically few foliate," she continued. "Why, it's a a Pithecolobium." "Sure enough," said Edgarton. "That's what I thought all the time."
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