At Sixth Avenue, where the great skeleton of the Elevated stalks mid-street, like a prehistoric pithecanthropus erectus, he paused for an instant in the shadow of a gigantic black pillar, readjusting the fragile burden to his pocket.

There is an erect form of P. Lemoinei named erectus that is also worthy of note.

Bryanthus Erectus.

Caudex arborescens erectus simplicissimus cylindraceus, 6-18-pedes altus, crassitie femoris.