ROSACEA. T29 



remarkable for its thick axillary spikes of small flowers 

 and thin flat pods. 



Branches, leaf-stalks and peduncles usually velvety. 

 Pinnas eight to ten pairs ; leaflets twenty to thirty, or 

 more pairs, J4 inch long, narrow, with the vein near the 

 upper margin ; silky pubescent underneath. Flower- 

 spikes, l^A to 3 inches long by lJ4 inches thick when the 

 flowers open because of the long stamens ; pedicels 1/16 

 inch. Pod sJ^ inches by % to ^ inch, thin, the valves 

 not twisting up after opening. 



A native of western Australia but planted and now 

 naturalised on the Nilgiris and one tree in Bombay shola near 

 Kodaikanal (^Bourne). 



Seeds of this plant germinated after lying in England for 68 years in 

 Sir John Herschell's cabinet (ms. at Kew). 



ROSACE/E. 



Herbs, shrubs on trees with alternate, stipulate, simple 

 or leathery leaves, and quite regular flowers of five free 

 sepals, with occasionally an epicalyx of five bracteoles 

 below them ; five free rounded petals attached to the 

 margin of a cup-shaped or ring-shaped honey-secreting 

 disc ; numerous stamens bent inwards in bud, and with 

 small anthers ; and one or more carpels, with one or more 

 seeds in each. 



The centre of the flower may be raised and the 

 carpels separate, ripening into (dry) achenes as in the 

 Strawberry where the torus (centre) becomes juicy, or into 

 juicy berries enclosing each one small stone as in, the 

 Raspberry ; or it may be nearly or quite flat with one 

 carpel only which ripens into a stone fruit, as in the Plum, 

 Cherry and Apricot; or be hollowed and enclose a few 

 one-seeded carpels, as in the Lady's-mantle and Agri- 

 mony ; or have many carpels which lie free inside what 

 is eventually a more or less juicy case (calyx-tube), as in 



