262 ON SEEDLINGS 



Adansonia digitata, L. 



Hypocotyl stout, short, erect, terete, glabrous, green, 6-8 mm. 

 long. 



Cotyledons very large, 4 cm. long by 3'5 cm. broad, broadly or 

 roundly oblong, obtuse, entire, slightly cordate at the base, petiolate, 

 glabrous, green, trinerved with numerous lateral veinlets, petioles 

 thick, scarcely furrowed on the upper side, short. 



Stem square, herbaceous, ultimately woody ; 1st internode 2-5 cm. 

 long ; 2nd 8-10 mm. ; 3rd shorter. 



First leaves simple, entire ; first two lanceolate, acute ; others 

 spathulate or cuneate, glabrous, light green, pinnatinerved ; petioles 

 short, with the midrib projecting on the upper face ; stipules small, 

 acute, brown, deciduous. 



The sixth leaf becomes digitate. 



Eriodendron anfraetuosmn, DC. (fig. 216). 



Hypocotyl erect, 5-8 cm. long, about 2 mm. thick, firm, terete 

 near the base, obtusely four-angled from the middle upwards, 

 glabrous, the lower half brownish-green, lighter above. 



Cotyledons long-petioled, about 5 cm. long and nearly 3 cm. 

 broad, subcordate, obtusely acuminate, entire, convex, quite gla - 

 brous on both sides, palmately seven-nerved and reticulated in a 

 peculiar, honeycomb -like manner, leathery, dark shining green 

 above, greyish-white below. 



Stem terete, firm, about 2 mm. thick, very short, glabrous, 

 yellowish-green. 



Leaves. No. 1. Stipulate, digitate with five divisions ; petiole 

 about 3 cm. long by 1 mm. thick, glabrous; divisions unequal, 

 from 1-5-5 cm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, remotely serrate ; teeth 

 adpressed ; penninerved and reticulately veined, with prominent 

 midrib, glabrous on both sides, somewhat leathery, dark green 

 above, light green below. 



Nos. 2 and 3. Similar to No. 1. 



