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GENERAL BOTANY 



occurs at the junction of blade and sheath in the 

 leaves of MARANTA and PHRYNIUM. 



3. In many plants, e.g. Cotton and HIBISCUS, 

 there are on the axis, just at the junction between 

 it and the leaf, two small greenish or brown scales, 

 one on either side of the petiole. These are termed 

 Stipules. They vary somewhat in shape, and are 

 sometimes so small as to be hardly visible, and often 

 they fall off very quickly, so that one can find them 

 only on the youngest parts, towards the ends of the 

 branches. 



In CASSIA AURICULATA (fig. 5) they are large and 

 ear-shaped, from which the name AURICULATA (ear- 

 like) is taken. They 

 are larger still in 

 the common Pea, 

 and being green 

 take the place of the 

 leaf-blade which is 

 changed into a 

 tendril. 



But in most cases 

 they are narrow and 

 pointed, and less 

 than quarter inch 

 long. In the Coffee 

 plant, in IXORA and 

 others the leaves are 

 opposite, and the 

 stipules of the two leaves are joined together in pairs, 

 to form what looks like one stipule, connecting the 

 two leaves, on each side of the axis. In POLYGON UM 



FIG. 5 

 CASSIA AURICULATA 



