344 ON SEEDLINGS 



yellowish, beneath ; lamina 2'6 cm. long, 1-6 cm. broad ; petiole 

 grooved above, pubescent on the back, 2-5 mm. long. 



Stem woody, erect, terete, much kneed and flexuous in a zigzag 

 manner, densely pubescent, pale green, soon becoming brown ; 

 1st internode 5 mm. long ; 2nd 6'75 mm. ; 3rd 1-2 cm. ; 4th 1/7 cm. ; 

 6th 2-15 cm. ; 6th 3 cm. ; 7th 2-65 cm. 



Leaves simple, cauline, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, deep green 

 and glabrous above, paler and pubescent beneath, alternately and 

 incurvedly penninerved, reticulate, serrate, the serratures with in- 

 curved glandular or mucronate tips ; stipules small, triangular, 

 serrate or lacerated, soon becoming brown, caducous ; petioles short, 

 channelled above, rounded on the back, pubescent. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Small, elliptic, subacuminate, obtuse, apiculate. 



Nos. 3-6 inclusive. Gradually and successively larger, elliptic, 

 acuminate, obtuse, tapering almost equally to both ends, apiculate. 



Maytenus boaria, Molin. (fig. 244). 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, 3-6 cm. long, reddish. 



Cotyledons oval, obtuse, emarginate, shortly petiolate, coriaceous, 

 1-5-2 cm. long, glabrous, dark green, reticulate, like the first 

 leaves. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, square, rough with minute hairs ; 1st 

 internode 4-10 mm. long ; 2nd and succeeding ones 2-4 mm. 



First leaves simple, cauline, alternate, shortly petiolate, oval, 

 dentate or slightly serrate, acute, glabrous, bright green, somewhat 

 paler beneath ; midrib with numerous branched veinlets. 



RHAMNEJL 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 371. 



Fruit and Seed. The ovary is usually three-celled, but two 

 to four cells also occur. The ovules are solitary, erect, and ana- 

 tropous. Exceptions occur in Karwinskia, where there are two 

 ovules in each cell, and the same thing happens in Condalia 

 when two cells of the ovary become confluent in one. The raphe 

 is dorsal or rarely lateral, and the micropyle inferior. The 

 fruit is superior or more or less submerged in the receptacle, 

 and when mature is three-, rarely one- to four-celled, and cap- 

 sular, drupaceous, or separating more or less into cocci with a 

 woody endocarp opening at the top. The seeds are ovoid or 



