250 ON SEEDLINGS 



Cotyledons cordate, obtuse, entire, with long petioles, three- to 

 five-nerved, with a thin glandular pubescence above ; margin ciliate 

 with hooked hairs, thinly hairy beneath and glandular-pubescent ; 

 lamina T25 cm. long, T2 cm. broad ; petiole 1'3-1'S cm. long, 

 hairy and glandular-pubescent. 



Stem woody, erect, subflexuous, hairy and glandular- pubescent ; 

 pale green ; 1st and 2nd' internodes 2-25 mm. long; 3rd 3 mm.; 

 4th 2-5 mm. 



Leaves simple, cauline, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, stellately 

 pubescent on both surfaces, palmately seven-nerved from the first, 

 ciliate, greyish-green above, pale, almost glaucous, beneath, sub- 

 reticulate ; petioles subterete, slightly channelled on the upper side, 

 densely hairy and glandular-pubescent, thickened at the base and 

 also at the insertion of the lamina ; stipules small, subulate, hairy, 

 caducous. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Rotund-cordate, obtuse, dentate with mucronat'e 

 teeth. 



Nos. 3 and 4. Broadly cordate, subacute, dentate with mucro- 

 nate teeth. 



No. 5. Broadly cordate, subacute, slightly trilobed, dentate. 



Pavonia hastata, Cav. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, covered with minute hairs, light green 

 or colourless, 1-5-2 cm. long. 



Cotyledons fleshy, cordate or rotund, oval, entire, obtuse, unequal 

 (one being much more ovate than the other and cordate at the base), 

 petiolate with hairy petioles and a very few hairs at the base, pin- 

 natinerved. 



Stem erect, terete, herbaceous, pubescent ; 1st internode 3-4 mm. 

 long. 



First leaves simple, cauline, alternate, ovate, obtuse, crenate, 

 slightly cordate at the base, petiolate, stipulate, pubescent, light 

 green, pinnatinerved. 



Modiola multifida, Moench (fig. 212). 



Primary root tapering, flexuous, with lateral rootlets, annual. 



Hypocotyl subterranean and tapering indistinguishably into the 

 root. 



Cotyledons petiolate, glabrous, somewhat fleshy ; petioles chan- 

 nelled above, 5 mm. long; lamina ovate, rather obtuse, faintly 

 trinerved, 4 - 75 mm. broad, G mm. long. 



Stem annual, terete, hairy ; 1st and 2nd internodes undeveloped ; 

 3rd 2 mm. ; 4th 4 mm. long. 



