GUTTIFEILE 



235 



Stem erect, somewhat compressed on opposite sides between 

 each internode (the greater diameter being in the plane of the pair 

 of leaves immediately above each internode), glabrous, deep green, 

 more or less mottled with 

 minute colourless dots, 

 ultimately woody; 1st in- 

 ternode 1-4-1-7 cm. long; 

 2nd 2-52-8 cm.; 3rd 

 4 cm. ; 4th 1-8-2 cm. 



Leaves simple, entire, 

 cauline, opposite, exstipu- 

 late, petiolate, densely 

 and alternately or often 

 oppositely and ascend- 

 ingly penninerved, with 

 slender, parallel nerves, 

 resembling strife, that 

 run straight and un- 

 branched from the mid- 

 rib to the margin rarely 

 do two contiguous ones 

 coalesce close to the 

 margin to form a single 

 nerve shining on both 

 surfaces, deep green 

 above, light green be- 

 neath, hyaline and finely 

 glandular-pubescent at the 

 margin, otherwise glabrous 

 and soon losing the 



FIG. 209 



ihyllum Inophyllum. 

 nat. size. 



glands ; petioles short, stout, glabrous, light green, semiterete, 

 flattened above, slightly thickened at the insertion on the stem. 



1st pair small, scale-like and reduced to their midrib. 



2nd pair similar or sometimes much better developed, and 

 sometimes unequal, when the larger one is oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate and obtuse. 



3rd and 4th pairs narrowly elliptical, obtuse, perfect and 

 normal. 



Mesua ferrea, L. 



Hypocotyl subterranean, very short or hardly developed. 

 Cotyledons large, fleshy, subterranean, and remaining in 

 broadly amygdaloid seed until they decay. 



the 



