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alternate petiolate narrower ones. It appeared quite useless in any manner e describe these 
sapling leaves in the several species where they have been observed, for the ey present at once 
the g t similarity in the Ap fips leaves oi gegen degen and the greatest dis- 
similarity in the different leave the e specie S Where in the following 
s . In. 
ceolate leaves, the specific modifications pained in a L os: measure as be af gets broader, 
re 
dagnostie characters are som as taken from the position of the leaves, horizontal or 
vertical, and the comparative colour of their surfaces, dark above and pale See a 
Similar on both sides, but this can rarely be ascertained from dried specimens, In gene 
i t 
e m 
: 80 where the leaves of the adult tree are ean te lanceo pe and foliate with oblique 
4 ded aré 5 usually vertical, cr the opposite ones of the sapling of the same species 
be 
1 Mn absolutely in pen Sex ens. he mbels are as a rule universal, but are always iu 
wd few E Zonge d species, and oceasiona er in -— oy to hu flower. The 
a of the peduncle supporting it, eese absolute red to that of e pees to 
, "äich importance is E ven in old diagnoses, Rien a en rarely ovii a specific 
: ter. Rarely e 1 in. generally varying from 3 to $ in. a sometimes e 
fi ei D 
e referred to it. These peduncles with. their penis are, how- 
me importance, constituting three types:—1. axil- 
b, (e 
ere Show an axillary umbel, or after flow wering the branches of the eorymb may 
y erm (ay grow out into leafy shoots, leaving the frniting umbels lateral 
ves, ° 
d dimensions Sei = calyx-tube (Aypanthium of Schauer, cupula of De 
ci ar Ge taken — the weed po oar but still adhering; after they fall, it often 
vill Panes. tbt. i crie dicens the form it had in flo vst nor yet that which it 
assume in fruit. 
So mnm wr sde is always the single one, ed Weg the petals, as it 
lure there: ie f whose 
y to fall off for the expansion of the stam The outer one, 0 
e there is still des es erit roii i in nea iae a cies p an early stage, 
E aech thin and falls o o be worth mentioning in descriptions. Where, as 
Sime oS It persists ate anch it eg to do soin a v SC? varia in the 
is more on. m only, as far as hitherto observed, in Z. ia that it 
Drees į nstantly persistent, till nearly the bg, e of opm of the e et «goa or 
Ana iess and consistency the inne "a 
: iii es are almos 
Wiversally gra be for the stamens iie b the outer ones; the inner on 
The sty] 
the yle is omitted i in See ifie deseri tions, because I have been unable to ascertaiu 
*onstaney of the few pth ti dient. It is certainly longer iu some species, thicke: 
