196 ON SEEDLINGS 



Apex ending in a few large pores and forming a small, somewhat 

 crustaceous and brittle mucro crumbling away in old specimens, 

 while the margin elsewhere remains intact. 



Stomata large, numerous on the under side, fewer on the upper. 



FIQ. 506. Ardisia polycephala. Half nat. size. 



Resin or oil cavities rather numerous, brownish -orange, scattered 

 and sunk in the tissue of the leaf. 

 Leaves coriaceous, persistent. 

 No. 1. Elliptic, obtuse, entire. 

 The ultimate ones exactly similar, but much larger. 



Jacquinia mscifolia, Jacq. 



Hypocotyl woody, erect, terete, shortly pubescent, dull green, 

 2 mm. above the soil. 



Cotyledons oblong-ovate, undulate or curling, rigid, mucronate 

 cartilaginous at the margin, deep green above, paler beneath, gla- 

 brous, sessile, 1'5 cm. long, 7 mm. wide. 



Stem woody, erect, terete, subscabrous, pale green ; 1st and 2nd 

 internodes undeveloped. 



Leaves verticillate, entire, glabrous, rigid, shining, deep green 

 above, paler beneath, subrevolute at the margin, tipped with a spine, 

 slightly subchannelled above, more or less carinate beneath ; petioles 

 rigid, 1-2 mm. long. 



First pair opposite, elliptic. 



Second pair opposite, scarcely decussate, elliptic, unequal, the 

 smaller one lanceolate. 



Here the first growth terminates, and several small brown scale- 

 leaves are produced. 



When growth recommences five narrqwly lanceolate leaves are 

 produced in a whorl ; above this two small, narrowly lanceolate, 

 opposite ones. 



Here growth is again arrested, and the bud is protected with 

 small scales. 



