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In this case the "contrasting golden beam" shone not from the foliage, but, stranger still, from the black trunk of a tall tree. It was a stelecho-karpus, or stem-flowering tree. The trunk from which the deep saffron flowers sprang was about one foot and three inches in diameter, and the flowers themselves were much like bunches of primroses, only darker in colour and divested of their leaves.
History of the Buitenzorg gardens Teysmann Scheffer Three separate branches Horticultural garden Mountain garden Botanical garden Dr. Treub Lady Raffles' monument Pandanus with aërial roots Cyrtostachys renda Stelecho-karpus Urostigma Brazilian palms Laboratories and offices Number of men employed Scientific strangers.
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