A NAG AUDI AGILE 



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Stem erect, terete, succulent, ultimately woody, finely pubescent, 

 pale green or reddish, soon becoming brown ; 1st internode l 4 5-3'3 

 cm. long. 



Leaves simple, entire, cauline, alternate (first two opposite), 

 exstipulate, petiolate, glabrous, or thinly glandular-pubescent on the 

 midrib on both surfaces, alternately incurvinerved, with the nerves 

 branching towards the margin and ending in a colourless cartila- 

 ginous line surrounding the leaf, shining green above, paler and 

 shining beneath ; petioles short, semiterete, channelled above, thinly 

 glandular-pubescent. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Lanceolate, obtuse, suddenly tapering to the base. 



Schinus Molle, L. (fig. 259). 



Fruit a drupe, one-celled, one-seeded ; mesocarp fleshy or pulpy, 

 very scanty ; endocarp of two layers, of which the outer on the sides 

 of the fruit is hollowed in several places forming oil receptacles ; 

 inner hard and bony. 



Seed transverse to the receptacle of the fruit, irregularly oblong 

 or subovate, suspended 

 from the side of the cell, 

 laterally compressed and 

 conforming to the interior 

 of the endocarp ; testa 

 thin ; hilum and micropyle 

 at one side of the ovary 

 and superior or nearly so. 



Endosperm irregular, 

 surrounding the embryo, 

 thick in some places and 

 thin at others, fleshy, 

 white. 



Embryo comparatively 

 large, nearly equalling the 

 length and breadth of 

 the endosperm, yellowish ; 

 cotyledons ovate, obtuse, 

 entire, nearly or quite of 

 the same thickness across 

 the breadth of the seed, 



trinerved, often undulated in accordance with the undulated or 

 wavy interior of the endocarp, with their basal edges to the 



PIG. 259. Schinus Molle, x 3. A, germinating 

 seed. B, seedling four days after germination. 



