J. M. Macfarlane. — Cephalotaceae. 



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The foliage leaves are 5 in number on the average, and are produced as a rosette 

 round the apex of the shoot. From study of living and herbarium specimens, as well 

 as from the statements of Hamilton, the writer considers that these unfold during the 

 Australian autumn. Each is from \ — 6 cm X 0,5 — 3 cm, is divisible into petiole and 

 lamina, and has a bright green shining aspect, at times tinged — specially along petiole 

 and margin — with red. The petiole is about equal to or shorter than the lamina, and 

 is db pilose along its edge. The lamina varies from oval to ovate, and is traversed 





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Fig. \. Cephalotus follicularis Labill. A Whole plant. B Diagram of flower. C Flower. 

 D Carpel. E Folliculus. F Transverse section of seed. 0— K Various stages of development 



of the leaf. 



lengtlrwise by 3 — 5 veins of nearly equal strength, that are united by oblique ones in 

 reticulate fashion. As noted below, some interesting transition forms have been described 

 between these and the pitchered types. 



The pitchered leaves are the most conspicuous, as they are dainty, growths of the 

 plant. On the average 5 are formed each season in radiate rosette fashion, and these 

 along with the previously developed foliage leaves form an attractive circlet round the 

 flowering or fruiting stalk (Fig. 1 A). According to the vigor of the shoot that bears 

 them, they may vary from 0,5 to 3 cm in length, and from the angle at which the 



