RUTACE^E 321 



Hypocotyl l'5-2'5 cm. long, 1 mm. thick, terete, glabrous, light 

 green, firm. 



Cotyledons nearly equal, 1-5 cm. long, -5 cm. broad, obtuse, lanceo- 

 late, entire, with obscure nervation but distinct midrib, glabrous, 

 dark green on the upper surface, pale on the under, coriaceous, with 

 large brownish buds in the axil. 



Stem firm, terete, with scattered brown stellate hairs, giving it 

 a woolly appearance ; internodes only a few millimetres long, 1 mm. 

 thick. 



Leaves simple, entire, cauline, opposite or sometimes alternate 

 in individual plants, exstipulate, shortly petiolate, more or less 

 densely covered with a stellate pubescence, at least in the young 

 state, obscuring the not very distinct venation, coriaceous, deep 

 green above when the stellate tomentum is removed, whitish be- 

 neath ; petioles short, stellately tomentose. 



Nos. 1 and 2. More or less opposite, shortly petioled, with 

 swollen light brown buds in the axil of the woolly petiole ; lamina 

 1'25 cm. long, '5 cm. broad, obtuse, elliptic, entire, with sunk midrib 

 and covered with whitish dots formed by woolly stellate hairs, 

 coriaceous, flat, with revolute margin, dark green above after dis- 

 appearance of hairs, whitish below. 



Nos. 3-5. Similar, but alternate and suborbicular. 



Correa viridiflora, Andr. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, about 10-12 mm. above the soil. 

 Cotyledons linear-oblong, obtuse, entire, narrowed at the base 

 to a short petiole about 15 mm. long, 2-5-3 mm. wide. 



Ptelea aptera, Parry. 



Hypocotyl about 2 cm. long, 1-1 '5 mm. thick, firm, quadrangular 

 at the base, terete just under the seed-leaves, verrucose, green. 



Cotyledons subsessile, 3-3'5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute at the base, obtuse at the apex, minutely crenate, 

 with distinct midrib and verrucose, glandular surface, dark green 

 above, rather paler beneath. 



Stem terete but scabrous-verrucose, green ; 1st internode '5 cm. 

 long, 1 mm. thick, 2nd and 3rd 1 cm. long, less than 1 mm. 

 thick. 



Leaves compound, digitately trifoliolate or pinnately five-folio- 

 late, cauline, alternate, exstipulate, petiolate, alternately penni- 

 nerved with the nerves somewhat incurved towards the tip, re- 

 ticulate, coriaceous, glabrous, deep green above, paler beneath, with 



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