THEIR FORMS AND FUNCTIONS. 477 
whole leaf in a sessile condition, having a trifid but very small 
lamina. The first and succeeding perfect leaves have conduplicate 
leaflets folded very compactly in front of the midrib. All leaves 
at this stage, whether perfect or otherwise, are covered with 
adpressed hairs. 
The axillary buds are small, scaly, hairy, and rest in a slight 
depression between the thickened base of the petiole and the 
axis. 
OcHNACER. 
In Ochna multiflora, DC., the petiole is very short, flattened 
on the upper side; the stipules are intrapetiolar, connate at the 
base, subulate, acute, quickly becoming brown and caducous. 
The growing bud develops rapidly, and the stipules fall away on 
the expansion of the leaves. 
In Gomphia salicifolia, St.-Hil., the leaves are shortly petiolate ; 
the stipules subulate, acuminate, slender, 8-18 mm. long, inserted 
upon the stem close to the edges of the petiole, connected at the 
base by an intrapetiolar rim, soon becoming reddish brown and 
dead, but persistent. They remain, indeed, even on the stems 
and branches when the lower leaves of the previous season’s 
shoots have fallen. The terminal bud is completely enveloped by 
the convolute stipules of the last developed leaf. The axillary 
buds are protected in their earlier stages by the connate portion 
of the stipules, and further sheltered by the permanently erect 
free portions *. 
MELIACE. 
In this order there are no stipules. 
Carapa guianensis, Aubl.—The leaves are alternate, exstipulate, 
petiolate, equally pinnate, with 4-6 or more pairs of oblong, 
shortly petiolulate leaflets, glabrous, coriaceous, persistent ; 
petiole long, terete, suddenly very much thickened at the base. 
Terminal bud surrounded by very much reduced and thickened 
scales, several of which appear little more than cortical out- 
growths of the bark, so that the outer ones do not close over the 
in his account of the family in Engler and Prantl’s ‘ Pflanzen- 
tions :—I. Neo-ouratea. Sti- 
* Gilg, 
familien,’ divides the genus Ouratea into‘two sec : 
pules lateral, not joined. American species.—II. Pule-ouratea. Stipules more 
or less intra-axillary, joined but more or less deeply cut, often to the base. 
Old World species. 
