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ON SEEDLINGS 



Eandia Mussaendae, DC. (fig. 428). 



Hypocotyl woody, erect, terete, pubescent, pale green, about 

 1-4 cm. above the soil. 



Cotyledons large, foliaceous, ovate, rounded at the apex, tapering 

 to the base, alternately penninerved, but most conspicuously on the 

 lower half, glabrous, coriaceous but thin, deep green and shining 



above, paler beneath, 

 2*1 cm. long, l - o cm. 

 wide. 



Stem woody, erect, 

 terete, pubescent, 

 pale green ; 1st inter- 

 node 1'2 cm. long. 



Leaves simple, en- 

 tire, cauline, oppo- 

 site, stipulate, shortly 

 petiolate, bright green 

 and shining above, 

 thinly pubescent, ci- 

 liate, paler beneath 

 and thinly pubescent 

 on the nerves, alter- 

 nately penninerved ; 



stipules interpetiolar, united and forming one subulate, attenuate 

 piece between each pair of leaves ; petioles flattened above, convex 

 beneath, thickened at the base, very short, pubescent. 



First pair lanceolate, subacute, tapering most at the base. 



Gardenia Thunbergia, L. fil. 



Fruit baccate, globose or ellipsoid, ultimately more or less cortical 

 externally when dry, and crustaceous internally or somewhat bony, 

 one-celled, many-seeded, indehiscent ; placentas ultimately forming 

 a pulpy mass in which the seeds are embedded. 



Seed oblong, oval, or orbicular, variously and obtusely angled, 

 thin, much compressed and more or less flattened on both sides, or 

 turgid or convex on one side and flattened on the other, immersed 

 in pulp, and comparatively large, 6-7 mm, long, 4-5'5 mm. broad, 

 and 1-2 mm. thick in a dried state ; testa thin, membranous, pale 

 brown or whitish ; hilum and micropyle basal, contiguous. 



Endosperm copious, horny, almost colourless, and subtransparent. 



Embryo straight, colourless, about half the length of the seed, 

 but several times narrower; cotyledons rotund - triangular, very 

 obtuse and rounded at the apex, flat or nearly so, closely applied 



FIG. 428.- Randia Musscendce. Nat. size. 



