208 ON SEEDLINGS 



Nos. 1 and 2. Elliptic, acute, shallowly and distantly serrate 

 above the middle, tapering at the base, decurrent and forming a 

 narrow wing to the short petiole. 



Halesia hispida, Benth. et Hook. 



Pistil syncarpous, inferior ; ovary of three carpels, three-celled, 

 many-ovuled ; ovules seated on the middle of the placenta with the 

 superior ones ascending, and the lower ones pendulous, anatropous ; 

 micropyle inferior and superior accordingly. 



Fruit subfleshy when young, becoming dry when mature, 

 indehiscent, crowned with the persistent calyx-teeth, densely covered 

 with stiff, bristly, spreading, more or less brittle and easily detached 

 hairs, one- to three-celled, one- to three-seeded by abortion ; when 

 reduced to one or two, the seeds do not occupy the whole interior 

 of the fruit. The pendulous anatropous ovules in the lower part 

 of the ovary seem to be most often fertilised and to reach maturity. 

 Endocarp hard and woody. 



Seed oblong, slightly narrowed at either end, conforming to the 

 interior of one cell, and often somewhat oblique to the longitudinal 

 axis of the fruit : testa comparatively thin, and much more so than 

 the endocarp ; hilum and micropyle superior and contiguous in the 

 pendulous seeds. 



Endosperm copious, fleshy, white. 



Embryo comparatively large, straight, embedded in and falling 

 a little short of the endosperm, colourless ; cotyledons oblong, obtuse, 

 entire, slightly narrowed towards the apex, plano-convex, and 

 closely applied face to face, lying in the broader axis of the seeds 

 when the latter are in any way compressed, with their backs to 

 the axis ; radicle terete, obtuse, stout, somewhat longer than 

 the cotyledons, and lying with its point close to the base of the 

 endosperm. 



Styrax officinale, L. 



Pistil syncarpous, almost or wholly superior, fixed with a broad 

 base to the receptacle ; ovary of three carpels, three-celled with each 

 cell five-ovuled ; ovules basal, erect from the inner angles of the 

 cells, anatropous ; micropyle inferior. 



Fruit globose, splitting when mature into three valves, glabrous, 

 fixed with a broadish bas^ to the receptacle, and surrounded there 

 by the calyx, one-celled at^an early stage by the rupturing of the 

 septa, one-seeded ; epicarp and endocarp subcoriaceous ; mesocarp 

 fleshy. 



Seed subglobose, slightly depressed and a little broader than 



