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BUDS AND STIPULES. 225 
The axillary buds are nearly all very minute, covered by the 
erect base of the leaf in whose axil they occur, and sheltered at 
the sides by the decurrent bases of two others, but they very 
seldom develop into branches. Where they do develop it seems to 
be always where the branching peduncles arise, or close to and 
touching them. Here they are protected by the erect or ascend- 
ing and younger leaves near the tops of the shoots, till they have 
formed a number of leaves of their own, the older protecting the 
younger. 
MYRSINES. 
In Labisia alata, N. E. Br., the terminal bud is surrounded by 
the long sheaths of the younger or more recently expanded leaves 
The sheath of the last developed leaf is completely rolled round 
it; and the edges are involute. 
The axillary buds rarely develop, so that the stems are usually 
simple, 
In L. malouiana, Linden & Rod., the axillary buds usually 
remain small, aud in that stage are sheltered by the short sheath ; 
but they are more frequently elongate than in the case of L. alata. 
One or two of the primary leaves are reduced to the condition of 
deeply concave bracts. 
DROSERACEE. 
Drosera rotundifolia, Linn.—Stipules scarious, linear-subulate, 
acuminate, colourless, adnate to the petiole for a short way 
above the base. On the smaller leaves of young plants there are 
one or two pairs of stipules superposed on the edge of the 
petiole, As the plant increases in size the upper pair of stipules 
or fringes decrease in size, while the lower pair are connected by 
à transverse or iutrapetiolar line of three, four, or more, making 
five, SIX, Or more independently of the slender and decreasing 
Upper ones. 
non terminal bud is covered by numerous stipules from the 
veutly developed leaves, forming a loose fringe over it. 
e leaves are circinate in bud. 
m" polary buds are seldom developed, but when present are 
petil and protected by the dilated and imbricate bases of the 
es, 
sui er a spathulata, Labill—Leaves radical, densely rosulate 
to de pate, sessile, stipulate, spathulate, gradually narrowed 
© base, furnished with glandular tentacles on the upper 
