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forms which consist of a stalk-cell and of a terminal cell which is 

 unicellular and two-armed and sometimes with a small scale on its 

 upper side (figs. 256, 257). The walls of these different forms of hairs 

 in B. hochstetteri are muriculate. The clothing hairs in B. sindica 

 (fig. 249) are unicellular and conical and have walls thickened and 

 muriculate. 



External glands occur on the leaf and axis of all members. In 

 B. sindica, B. patula and J. simplex they are placed in epidermal 

 depressions and consist of a stalk-cell and of a spherical head divided 

 by horizontal and vertical walls (fig. 258). Glandular hairs on the 

 axis of B. patula and on the leaf and axis of B. hochstetteri, consist of 

 a long uniseriate stalk and of a disc-shaped head divided either by a 

 vertical walls (figs. 253, 255) or both by horizontal and vortical walls. 

 Structure of the Axis. — The epidermal cells are tabular in 

 B. sindica and J. simplex ; they are polygonal in B. hochstetteri and 

 B. patula. The outer walls are thickened. There are numerous 

 large cells, circular in T. S., intercalated amongst ordinary epidermal 

 cells, each containing a rounded cystolith (fig. 251). The stomata 

 on the axis are like those on the leaf. The stomata situated on the 

 sides of furrows in B. hochstetteri, however, are elevated a good deal 

 above the epidermis. 



The primary cortex is characterised by the occurrence of collen- 

 chyma which forms larger groups at the angles and smaller ones 

 between them. The collenchyma in B. sindica forms a continuous 

 ring. The assimilatory tissue in B. patula and B. hochstetteri is 

 formed of chlorenchyma, while in J. simplex it consists of large thin- 

 walled cells which occasionally act as water-reservoirs. 



Sclerenchymatous pericycle is not developed except in B. sindica 

 and B. patula, in which it consists of isolated bast fibres The wood is 

 composite in all members ; it is of uniform breadth except in B. patula, 

 in which it is much narrowed at two opposite points. The wood in 

 B. hochstetteri and J. simplex, is composed of large xylem bundles at 

 the angles connected by strands of interfascicular wood prosenchyma 

 with a few rows of vessels embedded in them. The vessels in 

 B. sindica and B. patula are uniformly distributed in the interfascicular 

 wood prosenchyma. The narrowed portions of the wood-ring repre- 

 sent the plane at right angles to the direction of the wind. The 

 medullary rays are uniseriate. They are numerous in B. hochstetteri. 

 The wood parenchyma is little developed in B. sindica and B. hoch- 

 stetteri while in B. patula and J. simplex it occurs in groups on the 

 inner side of the angular xyem bundles. 



The pith is composed of thin-walled cells except in R. patula 

 in which it consists of thick-walled cells. Oxalate of lime is found in 



