STERCULIACE^E 



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Leaves simple, cauline, alternate, stipulate (1st leaf exstipu- 

 late !), petiolate, glabrous or nearly so ; petioles semiterete, slightly 

 grooved above, thinly hairy ; stipules 

 small, subulate, obtuse, glandular- 

 pubescent. 



No. 1. Obovate-cuneate, obtusely 

 serrate with aristate teeth, five-nerved 

 at the base. 



Nos. 2 and 3. Ehomboid-ovate, 

 serrate, with aristate teeth ; five-nerved 

 at the base and alternately nerved up- 

 wards. 



Hermannia cuneifolia, Jacq. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, minutely 

 pubescent, 7-12 mm. long, light green 

 or colourless. 



Cotyledons oblong, obtuse, entire, 

 petiolate, glabrous, dark green, fleshy, 

 indistinctly one-nerved. 



Stem erect, terete, herbaceous, 

 pubescent ; 1st internode l'5-2 mm. 

 long. 



First leaves simple, cauline, alter- 

 nate, obovate, obtuse, crenate near the apex, petiolate, stipulate ; 

 stipules deciduous, pubescent, light green, pinnatinerved. 



Lasiopetalum dasyophyllum, Sieb. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, soon becoming brown, 1-1-2-2 cm. long. 



Cotyledons linear, entire, acute, sessile, slightly narrowed at both 

 ends, showing a distinct midrib but no other venation, glabrous, 

 minutely scaberulous, bright green above, paler beneath, slightly 

 connate at the base around the plumule, 15-30 mm. long. 



Stem erect, somewhat obtusely angled, minutely glandular- 

 pubescent, scaberulous, pale green, becoming brown ; 1st internode 

 about 2-5 mm. long ; 2nd 1-25-1-5 mm. ; 3rd 5 mm. ; 4th 9*5 mm. ; 

 5th and 6th about 1-4-1-6 cm. 



Leaves simple, cauline, alternate, exstipulate, petiolate, alter- 

 nately incurvinerved, glabrous, scaberulous on the upper surface 

 with small, glandular elevations, shiny when young, bright green 

 above, paler and shiny beneath ; stipules apparently obsolete ; 

 petioles extremely short or almost none, while the leaf is so much 

 narrowed towards the base as to resemble a petiole. 



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FIG. 219.- Pentapctes plicenicea. 

 Nat. size. 



