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GENERAL BOTANY 



FIG. 31 

 ABUTILON INDICUM, G. Don. 



mucronate if the mid-rib is prolonged as a short 

 hair beyond the end, as the leaflets of many CASSIAS 

 (fig. 5) and C^ESALPINIAS and CROTALARIA RUBI- 

 GINOSA (fig. 30). 



The base of the leaf-blade is, when necessary, 

 described as 



rounded, acute or narrowed as the case may be ; 



cordate if indented at the junction of the petiole, 

 in the shape of the conventional heart, as in the 



