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BUDS AND STIPULES. 207 
at this stage, and are practically fully developed. The whole 
lamina of the leaf is folded up in a small compact mass lying in 
front of the apex of the petiole, which at this stage constitutes 
the greater portion of the leaf. The relatively large stipules 
afford a considerable amount of protection, leaving only their 
petioles exposed, but the younger members of the latter are 
protected by the older. 
Axillary buds seldom developed. A plant many years old, and 
about 1 m. 52 em. high, had only one terminal and no lateral 
buds. This would doubtless account for the stipules being 
caducous all along the stem and also at the expansion of the 
terminal bud, there being nothing requiring protection after 
that stage of development. 
Heritiera macrophylla, Wall.—Leaves alternate, large, very 
much crowded (as a rule) near the extremity of the shoots, petio- 
late, stipulate, and ovate-oblong or oblong, coriaceous, persistent, 
shining and thinly scaly on the upper surface and silvery beneath 
owng to a dense covering of peltate, circular scales which are 
dentate at the margin; petioles bieonvex, thickened at the apex 
and base, articulate with the stem, densely covered with pale and 
deep brown scales. 
Stipules 1:223:5 em. long, subulate, much acuminate, ovate at 
the base, deeply concave on the inner face, densely scaly and 
caducous, excepting those covering the resting-bud, which are 
vften more persistent than the leaves themselves. They also 
become hard and rigid. 
Terminal bud covered by two pairs of stipules belonging to 
me last two developed leaves, which are generally smaller than 
hose which lose their stipules in summer. [Inside the two 
pars mentioned are other stipules, which are longer than the 
“ives to which they belong while still in bud. 
The axillary buds nestle between the thickened base of the 
petiole and the axis, Their scales are densely lepidote, like other 
à P the plant. Comparatively few of them elongate into 
size of d me extreme shortness of the internodes and the great 
periods ; eaves afford no space for their development. During 
sheds the drought, or owing to other circumstances, the tree 
uds are M of its leaves, and at such times dormant Y 
branched, couraged to develop, so that the tree slowly becomes 
All : 
the branches are thick, rigid, and of slow growth, producing 
