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ON SEEDLINGS 



indistinctly nerved, membranous, dull green above, paler below, 

 glabrous. 



Stem, lower part like the hypocotyl, upper somewhat succulent, 

 downy, terete. 



Leaves simple, cauline, alternate or mostly opposite or suboppo- 

 site, exstipulate (?), petiolate, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 

 coriaceous, alternately penninerved and reticulate ; stipules appa- 

 rently obsolete. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Opposite, shortly stalked, 1 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, prominently penninerved, thin, with a 



few hairs on the deeply serrated 

 margin and on the pale lower 

 surface ; upper surface glabrous 

 and dull green. 



Nos. 3-8. Alternate, larger. 

 Nos. 9-12. In pairs, 4-5 

 cm. long, 2' 5 cm. broad, with 

 long, stout, pubescent petioles, 

 coloured like the stem ; lamina 

 cordate-ovate, acuminate or cus- 

 pidate, irregularly and very deeply 

 serrated, with acute teeth ; penni- 

 nerved, with very distinct, reticu- 

 late veins, upper surface as in the 

 first pair, lower with red midrib 



FIG. 225. Aristotelia racemosa. 

 Nat. size. 



and nerves. 



Elaeocarpus oblongus, Sm. (fig. 226). 



Hypocotyl about 8 cm. long, 4 mm. thick near the base, 2-5 mm. 

 just beneath the cotyledons, firm, terete, glabrous, red, brownish 

 towards the root. 



Cotyledons very persistent, subsessile, nearly equal, 6 cm. long, 

 2-5 cm. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subacute at the base, 

 rounded at the apex, entire, trinerved, the two lateral nerves very 

 short in comparison with the very prominent midrib, reticulate, sub- 

 coriaceous, glabrous, light green with raised venation on the upper 

 surface, paler, smooth, and shining below ; nerves and veins red on 

 both surfaces. 



Stem firm, terete, pubescent, red, the first few internodes 5 mm. 

 long, 2-3 mm. thick. 



Leaves simple, cauline, opposite or subopposite, stipulate, shortly 

 petiolate, ciliate, pubescent on the upper surface and on the nerves 

 beneath when young, alternately incurvinerved and reticulate, 



