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ON SEEDLINGS 



glabrous, pale green ; 1st Intel-node 7-6 mm. long ; 2nd 5-5 mm. 

 3rd 9 mm. ; 4th 1-5 cm. ; 5th 1-8 cm. 



Learns simple, cauline, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, glabrous 

 lobed and glandular-serrulate ; petiole subterete, channelled above 

 glandular towards the top, and glabrous, pale green or tinged with 

 red on the upper side ; stipules lanceolate or subulate, subacute 

 glabrous, pale green, free. 



No. 1. Oblong, trinerved, shortly trifid; lateral lobes ovate, 

 mucronate ; middle lobe ovate, 

 elongate, mucronate. 



No. 2. Tri-partite and -nerved ; 

 lobes lanceolate, apiculate ; 

 middle one slightly longest. 



No. 3. Tri-partite; lateral 

 lobes oblong ; middle lobe lanceo- 

 late-elliptic. 



Nos. 4-7. Tri-partite and 

 -nerved ; lobes linear- oblong, 

 obtuse ; middle one longest. 



Modecca trilobata, Boxb. 

 (fig. 379). 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, gla- 

 brous, stout, pale green, shining, 

 4-6 cm. above the soil. 



Cotyledons very large, folia- 

 ceous, broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 subcordate at the base, much 

 cut away near the apex on one 

 side, petiolate, glabrous, bright 

 green and shining above, pale or 

 subglaucous beneath and shin- 

 ing, with five ascending and in- 

 curved nerves arising in the top of the petiole ; lamina 3-9 cm. long, 

 about 3-2 cm. wide in the middle, in average seedlings ; petiole 

 stout, channelled above, convex on the back, about 1-2 cm. long. 



Stem erect at first, ultimately twining, terete or slightly and 

 obtusely angled, especially about the nodes, glabrous, pale green, 

 shining ; 1st internode 1-27 cm. long ; 2nd 8'5 mm. 



Leaves simple, more or less lobed, cauline, alternate, stipulate, 

 petiolate, glabrous, shining green above, subglaucous and shining 

 beneath, five-nerved from the base, more or less strongly and 

 alternately nerved upwards, reticulate, biglandular at the base of 



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FIG. 378. Tacsonia Van Volxemii. 

 Half nat. size. 



