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only a tuft of leaves annually or sometimes only at longer 
periods. 
The stipules that persist and cover the resting terminal 
bud seem to dry up, partially at least, for they are more persistent 
than the leaves to which they belong. As a consequence, a series 
of stipules may often be found encircling the axis below the 
current crop or series of leaves, and these are dry, rigid, and 
gradually crumple or fall away in pieces till the old shoots 
become perfectly naked. The axillary buds long remain of a 
sinall size, and the scales covering them become hardened ; 
hence, perhaps, the stipules in that case can be dispensed with. 
Pterospermum acerifolium, Willd.— Leaves alternate, petiolate, 
stipulate, peltate, slightly and irregularly dentate, about 10- 
nerved, covered on both surfaces with stellate tomentum ; petioles 
terete, gradually thickened to the base, densely stellate-tomentose. 
Stipules unequally bipartite, inserted upon the stem close to 
the edges of the petiole, with subulate segments covered with a 
brown stellate tomentum, caducous, except those subtending the 
unexpanded leaves of the terminal bud. 
Terminal bud in the growing stage pushed on one side by the 
thickened base of the youngest unfolding leaf, and appearing 
lateral. It consists of a mass of young leaves and stipules, open 
at the top owing to the peculiar vernation of the leaves, which 
are strongly involute at the margins, with short petioles. ‘Lhe 
outer ones are directed outwards between the stipules, so that the 
latter do not afford them any protection. They are, however, 
vovered with a denser and darker brown stellate tomentum than 
the older leaves, and which affords them ample protection. The 
stipules are longer than the younger leaves and cover them. 
Axillary buds small, nestling in the axils of the stout pe 
and, like the terminal one, densely tomentose. They are seldom 
developed, so that the tree is sparingly branched. 
tioles 
Hermannia alnifolia, Linn.—Leaves alternate, distichous, petio- 
late, stipulate, suborbicular, dentate, alternately nerved, plicate, 
rugose, densely downy on both surfaces; petiole biconve® no 
dilated at the base, about 1:25-1-5 mm. long, downy- 
Stipules foliaceous, inserted upon the stem close to the e 
the petiole, triangular at the base, with a distinct midrib, re 
at the margin and drawn out into a long subulate point, downs, 
persistent. 
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