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an obtuse point and curved round the dorsal aspect of the seed 

 between the auricles of the cotyledons towards the micropyle. 



Hibiscus pedunculatus, Cav. (fig. 213). 



Primary root long, brittle, with fleshy, branched, colourless root- 

 lets. 



Hypocotyl about 1-5 cm. long, and a little over 1 mm. thick, 

 terete, slightly uneven, pubescent, bright green. 



Cotyledons shortly petioled, -25-1 cm. long and as broad, 

 broadly cordate at the base, emarginate, otherwise entire, obscurely 



FIG. 213. Hibiscus pedunculatus. Half nat. size. 



trinerved, concave, thin, pubescent, including petioles, yellowish- 

 green, not very persistent. 



Stem rather firm, terete, with stellate hairs ; first few internodes 

 5-1 cm. long, 1'5 mm. thick. 



Leaves simple, cauline, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, pubescent 

 all over, crenate in the earlier, and crenate-serrate in the adult 

 leaves, palmately five-nerved from the base with all the principal 

 veins ramified upwards, reticulate ; petiole tapering slightly upwards, 

 subterete, pubescent ; stipules membranous, small, subulate, acute, 

 deciduous. 



No. 1. Rotund-elliptic, crenate, palmately five-nerved. 



No. 2. Suborbicular, cordate at the base, crenate. 



