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ON SEEDLINGS 



length (6-11*4 cm.) about the fourth and fifth leaf and upwards, 

 nearly or quite terete, slightly angled or striate, bright green, 

 glabrous, articulated to the stem with a foot-like process and also 

 with the lamina. 



No. 1. Small, oval, obtuse, emarginate, trinerved at the 



No. 2. Similar, somewhat larger, and emarginate at both ends. 

 No. 3. Oblong, obtuse and slightly notched at both ends, three- 

 or faintly five-nerved. 



No. 4. Lanceolate, obtuse, cuspidate, faintly five-nerved. 



No. 5. Linear-lanceolate, sud- 

 denly narrowed to a subulate acute 

 tip, trinerved. 



No. 6. Linear, otherwise as 

 No. 5. 



No. 7. Reduced to a petiole tipped 

 with three small, subulate, acute 

 points or processes, diverging above 

 the middle and corresponding to 

 three reduced leaflets. 

 Nos. 8-10. Similar. 



TRIBE GENISTE.E. 

 Bossisea linophylla, R. Br. (fig. 

 263). 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, 

 tapering upwards, green at first, 

 soon becoming stained with red, 

 6-14 mm. above the soil. 



Cotyledons oblong, obtuse, entire, 

 petiolate, slightly indented on one 

 side a little above the middle, fleshy, 

 deep green and shining above, glau- 

 cous beneath ; lamina 3*5-4-5 mm. 

 long, 2 mm. wide ; petiole grooved 

 above, convex on the back, per- 

 foliate at the base, 1-1*25 mm. long. 

 Stem erect, terete, glabrous, pale 

 g 16611 . ultimately woody ; 1st inter- 

 node 5-13-5 mm. long ; 2nd and 

 3rd undeveloped ; 4th 2-5-7 mm. ; 5th 4-8 mm. 



Leaves simple, entire or merely slightly emarginate, cauline, 

 alternate (first three on same level), stipulate, petiolate, alternately 



FIG. W3.-Bo8aicea linophylla, 



