524 SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ON STIPULES, 
slender, subterete, narrowly grooved above, downy, not dilated at 
the base, articulate, persistent. 
The stipules are short, intrapetiolar, connate, downy, ciliate, 
persistent, except the upper portion, which gradually becomes 
brown and falls away. The terminal bud consists of conduplicate 
leaves, downy on the underside, very narrow at this stage and 
pushing out of a mass of stipules which are practically convolute 
round the younger leaves. 
The first axillary bud develops into aspine about 3°7 mm. long. 
Later on a second axillary bud develops in a somewhat lateral 
position and seems to arise as a lateral bud of the primary one. 
Both are protected in their early stage by the stipules. 
The stipules are described as lateral and caducous in the 
‘Genera Plantarum,’ but they appear to me to be intrapetiolar, 
connate and persistent at the base. 
The whole plant appears well adapted for a dry climate. It is 
a native of Brazil, and resembles Acalypha capillipes, Flacourtea 
sepiaria, and Argania Siderozylon in habit ; the two latter belong 
to different Natural Orders. 
Ficus infectoria, Roxb., has the leaves alternate, petiolate, 
stipulate, oblong-cordate, glabrous, incurvi-nerved, coriaceous, 
persistent ; the petiole subterete, narrowly channelled above, 
very slightly dilated towards the base. 
The stipules are linear, obtuse, membranous, inserted upon the 
axis and surrounding the greater part of it, colourless, membra- 
nous, caducous; each is convolute separately round the bud 
which it almost wholly covers, and is entirely free at both edges. 
The stipules of seven or more expanded leaves may be seen upon 
the plant at the same time. 
The terminal bud (as indicated above) is covered by the stipules 
which form a double covering, that is, of two layers deep. 
The axillary buds arise early, but are small, and nestle in the 
axil of the comparatively broad petiole. The stipules also help 
to protect them in their early stages, or even completely cover 
them. 
F. elastica, Roxb., has large, elliptic-oblong, coriaceous leaves, 
obscurely penninerved, persistent ; petioles long, subterete, very 
slightly flattened above, thickened towards the base. 
The stipules are inserted all round the stem, connate along 
both edges, forming a structure like a sharply-pointed extin- 
guisher ; the line of union along the anterior edges is scarcely 
