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growth becomes arrested in this specimen, and a branch is produced 

 in the axil of the ninth and tenth leaf respectively. 



Leaves alternate and scattered on the stem, alternate and dis- 

 tichous on the branches, alternately penninerved with ascending 

 nerves, ciliate, pubescent, dull green above, paler beneath ; petioles 

 very short, 1-1-5 mm. long, flattened or slightly grooved above, 

 densely pubescent. 



Nos. 1-10. Small, ovate, obtuse, much smaller than the coty- 

 ledons. 



Nos. 11 and 12. Minute and scale-like. 



Lower branch leaves small, obtuse ; upper ones larger, ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse. 



STYRACE^. 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL ii. 666. 



Fruit and Seed. The ovary is inferior, or half, or wholly 

 superior, consisting of two to five carpels cohering to form an 

 ovary with as many cells, or the septa may become torn away 

 from the axis while the plants are yet in flower, making one 

 cavity. The ovules are solitary or few in each cell, attached to 

 axile placentas, erect or pendulous and anatropous. The fruit 

 is often baccate or drupaceous, and one-seeded by abortion, 

 or it may contain from two to four seeds in one cell. In 

 some cases the pericarp becomes hardened and ultimately 

 splits open by three valves as in some species of Styrax. The 

 testa of the seed is membranous or coriaceous, with frequently 

 a broad hilum. Endosperm is more or less copious and fleshy 

 or almost horny. The embryo is axile and straight, or more 

 or less curved in some species of Symplocos, nearly equalling 

 the endosperm in length, with the two cotyledons linear, 

 plano-convex or together forming a terete body, or broad and 

 flat with a short or elongated radicle. 



The fruit of Halesia hispida is inferior and dry when 

 mature, one- to three-celled and one- to three- seeded and 

 indehiscent. The seeds are pendulous, with a large straight 

 embryo, with oblong cotyledons rather narrower than the endo- 

 sperm, plano-convex and somewhat flattened. The radicle is 



