CHAPTER XXV 



DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDS AND PLANTS 



FIG. 55 

 SEED OF DOLICANDRONE 



CRISPA, Seem. 



1. The seeds of many plants have thin flat append- 

 ages (wings) attached to one side as in CHLOROXYLON, 



SWIETENIA (fig. 57), 

 CEDRELA, MILLING- 

 TONIA HORTENSIS the 

 Indian Cork tree, 

 TECOMA, and in some 

 species of Pine, that 

 are grown on the higher 

 mountains of India. 

 Or sometimes to both 

 sides, as in DOLICAN- 

 DRONE (fig. 55), and 



STEREOSPERNUM. 



Or the wing may ex- 

 tend all round the seed 

 as in SPATHODEA (fig. 

 56), where it is very 

 thin s c a r i o u s and 

 almost transparent. 



FIG. 56 

 SEED OF SPATHODEA 



COMPANULATA, BeaUV. 



The Flame-tree 



