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scattered over both surfaces, dark green above, almost glaucous 

 beneath. 



Nos. 3 and 4. Nearly opposite, more elongated, ovate, pubescent. 



Nos. 5 and 6. Tomentose when young. 



Goodia lotifolia, SaUsb. 



Primary root very long, tapering finely, with lateral rootlets on 

 which are a few ovoid fleshy tubercles. 



Hypocotyl suffrutescent, erect, terete, glabrous, about 9 mm. 

 above ground, 1'5 mm. thick, proportionately very succulent and 

 thick shortly after germination. 



Cotyledons thick, fleshy, subobovate-oblong, shortly petiolate, 

 flat on the upper faces, with a cavity at the base, in which the 

 young plumule was at first protected, convex on the back, with a 

 median longitudinal ridge and two furrows, purplish-green, 6'5 mm. 

 long, 3 mm. broad. 



Stem erect, terete, suffrutescent, glabrous, pale green, and suffused 

 with red at the base ; 1st internode 3-35 cm. long ; 2nd undeveloped ; 

 3rd 1-6 cm. ; 4th 8 mm. ; 5th 1-8 cm. ; 6th 1-35 cm. 



Leaves compound, pinnately trifoliolate (first two unifoliolate 

 resembling foliaceous cotyledons), alternate (first three on the same 

 level or almost so in a great number of specimens), stipulate, 

 petiolate, glabrous, deep green above, paler and subglaucous be- 

 neath, folding downwards at night as well as the leaflets ; petiole 

 terete, smooth, reddish, with a green pulvinus at the base ; stipules 

 subulate, attenuate, free. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Unifoliolate; leaflets large, broadly ovate, 

 obtuse or minutely emarginate, subcordate at the base, otherwise 

 entire. 



No. 3. Pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets obovate, minutely apicu- 

 late, otherwise entire, with a small pulvinus, and articulated with 

 the rachis, folding downwards at night ; rachis between the leaflets, 

 4 mm. long. 



Nos. 4-9. Similar, but successively larger. 



NOTE. The leaflets ultimately become broadest about the middle, 

 and consequently change gradually from obovate to elliptic. 



Crotalaria quinquefolia, L. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, downy, 1-1-5 cm. long, light green or 

 colourless. 



Cotyledons oblong, falcate, obtuse, fleshy, shortly petiolate 

 glabrous, except on the petioles, dark green, indistinctly tri- 

 nerved. 



