496 SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ON STIPULES, 
HALORAGER. 
This order is said to be exstipulate except in the case of 
Gunnera, where the stipules * are adnate to the petiole. In G. 
scabra there does not appear to be anything like true stipules, 
but the crown of the plant is furnished with numerous scales 
similar to those of many ferns, but variously and deeply lacerated, 
with strong branching ribs corresponding to the divisions. They 
seem to be irregularly arranged round the crown or bud which 
they cover, imbricating and forming a shortly conical mass. They 
persist after the leaves have decayed, and protect the bud in 
winter. As they are attached to the rootstock below the insertion 
of the leaf, they appear to belong to the former and lie in front 
of the petiole as well as behind it, but are not distinctly attached 
to either surface. 
CoMBRETACED. 
Quisqualis indica, Linn., is exstipulate. The lateral buds nestle 
in the axils of the petioles, and are densely hairy. The first leaves 
are almost reduced to bracts. 
ONAGRARIER. 
The Onagrariez are generally said to be exstipulatet. Ihave 
already (J. c. p. 240) described the stipules in Fuchsia excortica. 
In Fuchsia Riccartoni, Hort., the leaves are opposite or three 
in a whorl, subsessile in bud, afterwards petiolate, stipulate, 
articulated with a pedestal which in an early stage of the growth 
of the shoots becomes fleshy and much swollen. The stipules are 
small, subulate, acuminate, with an ovate base which is persistent 
and fleshy, while the slender tip soon falls away. They are inserted 
upon the pedestal and occupy the space alongside of the short 
* Petersen (Engler & Prantl,‘ Pflanzenfamilien, iii. Teil, 7 Abth. p- 227) says :— 
“In G. chilensis, Lam., the stipules are numerous in the leaf-axil, and are 
arranged in several rows before the leaf-base; in G. magellanica, Lam., they 
form an ochrea.” 
+ Raimann, who describes the family for the ‘ Pflanzenfamilien,’ says :— 
“Stipules are absent in most Onagracer. Fuchsia, Hauya, and the Jussiee 
me small, subulate, deciduous stipules, as also has Circea”’ (iii. Teil, 7 Abth. 
p. 201), 
