RIBES ESCHSCIIOLTZIA 



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cotyledons are so few, that I may mention here that of Embelia 

 Pdbes (fig. 111). The leaves are simple, alternate, exstipulate, 

 petiolate, alternately incurvinerved, rather thick and in- 

 distinctly reticulate, shining on both surfaces, bright green 

 above, paler beneath, and punctate with dark green sunken 

 glands eventually becoming black, thinly glandular-pubes- 

 cent on both surfaces ; petioles semiterete, channelled above, 

 closely glandular-pubescent, tapering downwards. The first 

 leaf is broadly ovate, or short-elliptic, acute, and serrate except 

 towards the base. The second is similar, but less broad ; 

 the third, fourth, and fifth 

 lanceolate, each rather nar- 

 rower than the preceding. 



The cotyledons are 

 ovate, obtuse or subacute, 

 indistinctly alternately in- 

 curvinerved, and reticulate, 

 distantly serrate in the 

 upper half, petiolate and 

 tapering into the petiole, 

 glabrous, bright green and 

 shining above, paler be- 

 neath, thinly glandular on 

 both surfaces, and dotted 

 with sunken black glands ; 

 petioles semiterete, slightly 

 furrowed above, finely 

 glandular-pubescent. Here 

 it will be observed that the cotyledons are strikingly like 

 the first leaves ; and, moreover, that there is a regular gra- 

 dation from the broad ovate cotyledon to the final leaves, 

 which are narrow lanceolate. The serration of the cotyledons 

 is a very rare character, which makes the resemblance in this 

 respect all the more significant. 



In this connection also I may perhaps mention Eschscholtzia 

 tenuifolia. I have already described l and figured (fig. 40) the 

 germination of E. californica, in which the cotyledons are 

 long, narrow, and deeply bifid, and suggested that this form 



1 Vide supra, p. 49. 



FIG. 111. Seedling of Embelia Bibes. 

 Half nat. size. 



