474 SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ON STIPULES, 
stipules are generally foliaceous ; in the latter often as large as 
the leaves. 
Berrya Ammonilla, Roxb.—Leaves alternate, petiolate, stipu- 
late, cordate, or the smaller ones oblong with a cordate base, 
5-7-nerved at the base, irregularly dentate, membranous but 
persistent; petioles terete, slender, thickened at the base, 
elongated, pilose in their early stages. Stipules terete or fili- 
form, slender, downy, inserted upon the axis close to the base of 
the petiole in their early stages, but ultimately removed from it 
a little way, deciduous. 
Terminal bud covered by the leaves and their slender stipules. 
The lamina of the leaf is more or less involute at the margins. 
The stipules are as long as the leaves while the latter are in 
their early stages and sessile, but they protect only the spaces 
between every two leaves. 
Axillary buds very small, and in their early stages nestling 
partly between a depression or cavity and the base of the petiole. 
In the monotypic genus Diplophractum, from Java, the stipules 
are dimorphic. Both are leafy and bullate, but while one of 
each pair is bifid and bristly the other is entire. 
Eleocarpus edulis, Teysm.—Leaves opposite, decussate, un- 
equal, petiolate, stipulate, ovate-oblong, subcordate at the base, 
incurvinerved, pubescent on both surfaces, persistent ; petioles 
short, slightly dilated at the base, convex above, and somewhat 
flattened towards the base. Stipules in pairs owing to the 
leaves being opposite (a rare circumstance in this genus), small, 
subulate, deciduous. 
Terminal bud in the growing state consisting of strongly in- 
volute leaves, standing face to face over the younger members, 
but not in any way imbricate, densely hairy. The stipules occupy 
the space between the leaves where the latter are narrowed to the 
base, making the protection of the next growing pair complete. 
Axillary buds often elongating, densely hairy in their younger 
stages, and protected by the stipules and the ascending petioles 
of the leaves to which they belong. 
In the small genus Vallea, from the mountains of New 
Granada and Peru, the stipules are large and almost foliaceous, 
reniform in shape. 
Ch. Brunner, in Ann. Sci. Nat. sér. 3, vol. viii. p. 356, on the 
buds and inflorescence of the Lime, discusses the stipular 
character of the bud-scales. 
