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ON SEEDLINGS 



BauMnia Carronii, F. Muell. 



Pods 8-10 cm. long, 2-5-3 cm. broad, scarlet when young, 

 the colour of the flowers, which they resemble at a distance. 



Seeds oblong or broadly oblong, much compressed laterally, 

 smooth, shining, deep chestnut brown, glabrous, 9-10-5 mm. long, 

 6-8-5 mm. broad, 2-25-2-75 mm. thick. 



Hypocotyl subterranean. 



FIG. 804. Garcia Siliquostrum, x 2. 



Cotyledons sessile, one below the earth, about 1'5 cm. long, 

 1 cm. broad, oblong or obovate, obtuse, entire, trinerved, sub- 

 concave, glabrous, succulent, light green above. 



Stem herbaceous, terete, about 2 mm. thick, very pale green ; 

 1st internode 8'2 cm. long ; 2nd 2-1 cm. ; 3rd 2 cm. ; 4th 

 1-7 cm. 



Leaves. No. 1. Very small, cauline, compound, of two leaflets ; 



