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ON SEEDLINGS 



FIG. 286 Clitoria Ternatea. 

 Half nat. size. 



and decussating with them, subsessile or shortly petiolate, stipulate, 



2-3 cm. long, about 1 cm. broad, lanceolate, cuneate at base, ob- 

 tuse at the apex, entire, penni- 

 nerved with sunk nerves, thin, 

 pubescent, dark green above, dull 

 green below ; stipules setaceous. 



No. 3. Inserted either at same 

 level with Nos. 1 and 2 or '5 cm. 

 above those, stipulate, long-peti- 

 oled ; blade sub-bilobed or more 

 generally simple, 2-3 cm. long, 

 about 2 cm. broad, palmatinerved, 

 in nearly all cases showing more 

 or less complete coalition of 

 parenchyma between terminal 

 and lateral leaflets, otherwise like 

 Nos. 1 and 2 ; petiole 1 or 2 cm. 

 long, 1 mm. thick, with a 2-3 mm. 

 long, thickened, semitransparent 

 articulation at either end, and two 

 setaceous stipules at the base, 



somewhat channelled, pubescent. 



No. 4. As No. 3, only two or three times larger ; or as No. 5 &c., 



which are trifoliolate. 



Sometimes only one of the lateral leaflets is free and the other 



united to the terminal one. 



Erythrina suberosa, Boxb. (fig. 287). 



Hypocotyl undeveloped, or subterranean, and very shprt. 



Cotyledons fleshy and remaining in the oblong testa under the 

 soil until they become exhausted. 



Stem erect, stout, tapering upwards, pubescent with spreading 

 or variously directed hairs, pale green, more or less warted or 

 tuberculated from an early stage, with the brownish tubercules 

 very small, soon becoming woody; 1st internode 3'4-4'2 cm. long; 

 2nd -8-1 cm. 



Leaves simple in the seedling state, cauline, alternate (1st and 

 2nd opposite), stipulate, petiolate, palmately five- to seven-nerved, or 

 only the three primary and stronger nerves straight, while the others 

 arise from their base, are more slender, and curve round in confor- 

 mity with the broad, rounded auricles, much reticulate, pubes- 

 cent on both surfaces, light green above, with somewhat prominent 

 nerves, paler beneath with much more prominent nerves ; petioles 



