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cuspidate, narrowed to both ends, but especially to the base ; lateral 

 ones often slightly unequal in length ; terminal one always the 

 largest. 



Retama Roetam, Webb et Berth. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, 4-4 - 5 cm. long, light green 

 or colourless with a reddish tinge near the base. 



Cotyledons oblong, obtuse, entire, shortly petiolate, thick, fleshy, 

 glabrous, light green, indistinctly pinnatinerved like the leaves. 



Stem erect, ribbed, herbaceous, hairy ; 1st internode 2'5-2'6 cm. 

 long ; 2nd 5-7 mm. ; 3rd l'S-1'6 cm. ; 4th 4-7 mm. 



First leaves simple, entire, cauline, alternate, exstipulate, shortly 

 petiolate or subsessile, oval-lanceolate, subacute, covered with long 

 silky hairs which give it a white appearance, pinnatinerved. 



Genista sp. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, pale green, about l'S-2'4 cm . 

 long. 



Cotyledons broadly oblong or oval, obtuse, entire, very shortly 

 petiolate, showing a midrib but no other venation, horizontal on 

 erect petioles, very slightly indented on one side, glabrous, light 

 green ; lamina 10-5 mm. long, 8 mm. wide ; petiole erect, grooved 

 above, '5-1 mm. long. 



Stem erect, terete, striate, hairy, pale green when young ; 1st 

 internode 17mm. long; 2nd 5 mm.; 3rd 10*5 mm. ; 4th 4 mm.; 

 5th 11-5 mm. 



Leaves simple and compound, cauline, alternate, stipulate, with 

 the first one petiolate, the others very shortly so or subsessile, 

 alternately penninerved and obscurely reticulate, with the lateral 

 nerves uniting at their apices to form a submarginal nerve, hairy 

 above, silky beneath, with loosely adpressed whitish hairs, glaucous 

 on both surfaces ; petiole of first leaf subterete, channelled above, 

 hairy, articulated with the stem ; above the first leaf the petioles are 

 reduced to a minimum and articulated with the stem ; stipules 

 small, tooth-like, ovate or subulate, obtuse, hairy. 



No. 1. Digitately trifoliolate, with oblanceolate, acute leaflets, 

 petiolate. 



No. 2. Subsessile, digitately trifoliolate, and similar to the first. 



Nos. 8-6. Oblong-elliptic, cuspidate, simple, entire, subsessile. 



TJlex europaeus, L. (fig. 268). 



Primary root long, tapering, with lateral rootlets. 



Hypocotyl glabrous, terete, green or whitish, 5 mm. to 1 cm. long. 



