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On one year old seedlings the leaves are broader and lanceolate 

 to elliptic ; some of them are rhomboid and deeply trilobed or 

 cut on one side only with rounded sinuses, and the, lateral lobes 

 ovate, while the terminal ones are broadly triangular ; base much 

 decurrent on the shortened petiole. These cut leaves also appear 

 irregularly amongst others, both above and below, which are entire. 



Symphoricarpus racemosus, Miclix. 



Ovary of four carpels, four-celled two cells each with four to 

 five aborted ovules the other two each with a solitary pendulous 

 anatropous perfect ovule ; rnicropyle superior, close to the hilum. 



Fruit a berry, globose, white, surmounted by four to five small 

 teeth, the remains of the calyx, four-celled, with two perfect seeds. 



Seed oval-oblong, slightly compressed dorso-ventrally, smooth, 

 white ; testa bony ; tegmen thin, membranous, pale brown ; hilum 

 near the base (otherwise the upper end of the seed) forming a shallow 

 cavity ; raphe inconspicuous. 



Endosperm and embryo as in Viburnum ; cotyledons oblong - 

 ovate ; radicle cylindrical, equal to the cotyledons in length. 



Lonicera Periclymenum, L., var. serotinum. 



Ovary crowned with the persistent calyx, of two to three carpels, 

 two- to three-celled, many-ovuled ; ovules pendulous from the apex 

 of the cell, anatropous ; rnicropyle superior. 



Fruit a berry, globose, glabrous, red when mature, two- to three- 

 celled or one-celled by the destruction of the septa, few-seeded ; 

 exocarp and endocarp thin, membranous ; mesocarp pulpy. 



Seed oblong, plano-convex, or somewhat biconvex, obtuse at 

 each end, generally broadest at the apex, often appearing obliquely 

 notched at the base owing to the hilum being slightly lateral ; testa 

 pale brownish -yellow, thick, crustaceous ; tegmen thin, membranous ; 

 micropyle basal ; raphe and chalaza inconspicuous. 



Endosperm copious, fleshy, almost colourless, split down the 

 centre a considerable way, but occupying the greater part of the seed. 



Embryo small, straight, embedded in the endosperm close to the 

 base of the seed ; cotyledons oblong or ovate ; radicle shortly oblong, 

 suddenly narrowed to an obtuse point, nearly or quite as long as the 

 cotyledons, 



Lonicera Munroi, ? Hort. (fig. 427). 



Primary root very long, wiry, slender, with numerous slender 

 lateral rootlets. 



