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coriaceous ; petioles very short, semiterete ; stipules very small, 

 black, bristle-like, inconspicuous. 



No. 1. A little smaller than the cotyledons, shortly stalked, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, shallowly serrate with adpressed 

 apiculate teeth, and one black mucro at each side of base of the 

 lamina ; venation incurvinerved and reticulate with the nerves and 

 veins red on both sides, silky with adpressed hairs on the margin 

 and upper surface, as well as on the nerves of the lower, coloured 

 like the cotyledons, but showing the nervation and venation equally 

 well on both sides. 



Nos. 2-5. Similar, only larger and more elliptic, subacuminate. 



Elaeocarpus reticulatus, Sm. 



Hypocotyl woody, erect, terete, glabrous, pale brownish, 1-8 cm. 

 above the soil. 



Cotyledons persistent, lanceolate, obtuse, opaque, coriaceous, 

 obscurely penninerved and reticulate, glabrous ; lamina 1*9 cm. 

 long, 7'25 mm. broad ; petiole broad, semi-amplexicaul, 1 mm. long. 



Stem woody, erect, terete, pubescent, pale brown ; 1st internode 

 8 mm. long ; 2nd 2 mm. ; 3rd 5'25 mm. ; 4th 5'25 mm. ; 5th 

 7 mm. ; 6th 5 mm. ; 7th 5 mm. ; 8th 7'5 mm. ; 9th 7 mm. 



Leaves alternate, serrate ; teeth incurved ; mucronate, thinly 

 pubescent when young, ultimately coriaceous, glabrous, alternately 

 penninerved, reticulate prominently above, but not prominently 

 beneath, with the midrib prominent on both surfaces ; petioles 

 very short, stout, flattened above with a prominent midrib, much 

 thickened beneath at the very base and decurrent on the stem 

 forming a ridge, pubescent when young, ultimately glabrous ; 

 stipules minute, tooth-like. 



No. 1. Smaller than the cotyledons, lanceolate, acute, deep 

 green above, paler beneath, as are the others. 



Nos. 2-5. Lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate. 



Nos. 6-9. Lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, obtuse, mucronate. 



Ultimate leaves oblong, shortly acuminate, acute, tapered a little 

 to both ends ; petiole rigid, channelled above, thickened at its inser- 

 tion both with the lamina and the stem. 



