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GENERAL BOTANY 



which is split and thrown off as the bud expands. 



It rises on the branch just at the level of each leaf, 



and is formed of 

 the stipules. 

 The same thing 

 occurs in ARTO- 

 CARPUS (the Jak 

 fruit tree) and 

 in other kinds of 

 Figs. Also in 

 SARACA INDICA 

 and a number of 

 other plants. 

 Here, therefore, 

 the bud is pro- 

 tected by the 

 stipule of the pre- 

 FIG. 40 

 FICUS BENGALENSIS, L. 



the same kind throughout the year. 



But besides the terminal bud of a branch there are 

 buds in the axils of the leaves, though the rule that 

 every leaf has in its axil a bud" is not universally 

 followed. Among monocotyledons there are many 

 species which seldom or never branch and though 

 this might be on account of the buds not developing, 

 in many cases it is because there are no buds at all. 

 There are, for instance, none in the axils of most 

 of the leaves of the common Dracaenas of our 

 gardens, nor again in there of most Palms. 



Extra buds occur in the ordinary cultivated Coffee 

 tree, where when the terminal bud has been destroyed 



viously opened 

 leaf, and is of 



