236 ON SEEDLINGS 



Stem terete, strong, tapering upwards, glabrous, green, soon 

 becoming woody, brown and striated longitudinally ; 1st internode 

 4-3-4-5 cm. long ; 2nd 3'5-3-8 cm. ; 3rd 2-2-5 cm. ; 4th and 5th 

 about 2-3-2-5 cm. ; 6th 2-5-3 cm. 



Leaves simple, entire, cauline, opposite, stipulate, petiolate, 

 closely and alternately or almost oppositely penninerved, with the 

 nerves simple or slightly forked and proceeding almost at right 

 angles from the midrib to a slender, continuous, and submarginal 

 nerve, with numerous intermediate, very slender nerves, and finely 

 almost indiscernibly reticulate, coriaceous, glabrous, deep green 

 above, glaucous beneath, with the midrib prominent on both 

 surfaces, evergreen ; petioles short, subterete, slightly flattened 

 above or obsoletely channelled, glabrous, furnished at the base 

 with two minute, deltoid, obtuse auricles or stipules, connate around 

 axillary buds. 



1st to 4th pairs of leaves reduced to small, caducous scales. 



5th and 6th pairs lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, rounded at the 

 base. 



Here the stem ends in a blind bud and two axillary buds are 

 developed, which become branches, bearing each a pair of leaves 

 at their apex, ending in a blind terminal bud, and again developing 

 a pair of axillary buds. The leaves on these branches are narrower 

 than those of the stem, oblong, acuminate, obtuse, and rounded at 

 the base. 



TERNSTRCEMIACE^E. 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 177. 



Fruit and Seed. The ovary is free, rarely immersed in the 

 torus as in Anneslea and Visnea, generally three- to five-celled 

 except in Ternstroamia and in a few species of allied genera 

 where it is imperfectly septate. The ovules vary in number 

 exceedingly from two to many in a cell, rarely solitary as in 

 Caryocar, Anthodiscus,.0mphalocarpum, Pelliciera, and Hap- 

 loclathra. They are either erect or horizontal, or pendulous 

 and anatropous, sometimes campylotropous, or laterally affixed 

 and amphitropous with the rnicropyle superior or inferior. 

 The ovary is two-celled in Pelliciera, many-celled in Antho- 

 discus, Actinidia and Omphalocarpum. The fruit is fleshv, 



