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ON SEEDLINGS 



Nos. 1-8. Cuneate-obovate, obtuse, serrate or dentate along 

 the apex, gradually tapering or cuneate at the base, where it is more 

 or less glandular-dentate, with small or minute teeth. 



No. 4. Narrowly obovate-cuneate, much narrowed at the base, 

 irregularly dentate near the apex, minutely so below. 



Nos. 5 and 6. Oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, with a few large 

 teeth, or minutely dentate only. 



No. 7. Linear-lanceolate, obtuse, tapering to both ends, but 

 especially to the base, slightly revolute at the margin as is the one 

 below it, but more especially the younger ones above, which gradu- 

 ally become narrower and more elongated. 



Lasiopetalum ferrugineum, Sm. (fig. 220). 

 Hypocotyl erect, terete, more or less scabrous, soon becoming 

 brown and losing its epidermis by splitting in longitudinal fissures. 

 Cotyledons tapering to a narrow base and forming a very 



slender line around the 

 first and somewhat thickened 

 node, not very distinctly pe- 

 tiolate, slightly channelled 

 above, 1-7-2-4 cm. long, T5- 

 2-5 mm. wide, otherwise as 

 in L. dasyophyllum. 



Stem as in L. dasyophyl- 

 lum ; 1st internode 2-8 mm. 

 long ; 2nd l-6'5 mm. ; 3rd 

 1-12-5 mm. 



Leaves as in L. dasyo- 

 phyllum; petioles very short, 

 channelled above, gradually 



FiG.MO.-Lasiopetalumferrugineum. becoming shorter, as the 

 Half nat. size. leaves develop, from the first 



one upwards. 



Nos. 1-4. Obovate-cuneate, tapering to a long base, variously 

 and obtusely dentate along the obtuse apex. 



No. 5. Ehomboid or cuneate, variously and obtusely dentate 

 for the greater part or the whole of its length, tapering much to 

 the base. 



No. 6. Spathulate, obtuse, tapering to a long base, with one to 

 two coarse teeth at the apex and small ones throughout the greater 

 part, or at the base only. 



Nos. 7-9. Linear, obtuse or cuspidate, graduaUy tapered to the 

 base and minutely toothed throughout or subcrenate. 



