96 GENERAL BOTANY 



plantation on the hills. In some plants adventitious 

 buds also occur on the roots, and develop into new 

 stems. The suckers of the Wattle are of this character. 

 This occurs very frequently in the case of the 

 ordinary coffee tree. When the terminal bud has been 

 broken off, to prevent the tree growing too high, nw 

 branches developing from buds just below the next 

 branches, grow vertically up to take its place. 



But we may often find more than one bud in 

 the axil of a leaf. This is very frequently the case 

 with plants that climb by means of tendrils. One bud 

 grows out as a tendril, the other may develop into 

 an ordinary branch, as in the common ANTIGONON 

 LEPTOPUS that is grown so much in South Indian 

 gardens. In the axils of the leaves of CAPPARIS 

 HORRIDA again (fig. 18), there are generally three or 

 four flowers on separate pedicels, each from a 

 separate bud. Here the buds are superposed one 

 above the other, in other cases they are lateral, 

 side by side. Ordinarily only one develops into a 

 branch or flower as in BERBERIS the Barberry, 

 where there are three buds, while in ZANTHOXYLUM 

 there may be as many as eight or nine buds in each 

 leaf axil. These extra or accessory buds may at first 

 sight appear to be superfluous, but their use is that 

 when a normal branch is destroyed by accident or by 

 being eaten by animals, there may be another branch 

 developing from one of the other buds to take its place. 



