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petioles, alternately and ascendingly penninerved, thinly hairy (at 

 least when young) ; petioles very short, thinly hairy, semiterete, 

 slightly channelled above. 



First and second pairs very small, almost scale-like, but green, 

 lanceolate, obtuse. 



Third and fourth pairs much larger, but still narrower than the 

 cotyledons, linear-lanceolate, acute, with a few alternate, ascending 



Schubertia grandiflora, Mart, et Zucc. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, hoary, about 2 cm. long, light green or 

 colourless. 



Cotyledons entire, broadly ovate or oval, obtuse, dark green above, 

 subglaucous beneath, petiolate with petioles 1 cm. long, glabrous, 

 but the petioles slightly hoary, 1-5 cm. long, 1*25 mm. wide, with 

 a prominent midrib from which ascend numerous 

 veinlets ; the venation is the same as in the primary 

 leaves. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, terete, slightly pubes- 

 cent, pale green ; 1st internode 1 cm. long ; 2nd 

 much shorter. 



Leaves entire, cauline, simple, exstipulate, petio- 

 late, ovate, acute, dark green above, lighter beneath, 

 glabrous with minute hairs on the edges ; midrib 

 with numerous ascending veinlets. 



Gomphocarpus campanulatus, Harv. (fig. 517). 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, pale green 

 (herbaceous when sketched), 3-8 mm. above the 

 soil. 



Cotyledons oblong, obtuse, petiolate, glabrous, 

 deep green above, shining; lamina 11 mm. long, 

 6*5 mm. wide ; petiole glabrous, grooved above, 

 convex on the back, 6'5 mm. long. 



Stem herbaceous at least in the early stages, 

 erect, terete, ultimately twining, hairy with patent 

 hairs, pale green or suffused with pale purple; 1st Half nat. size. 

 and 2nd internodes each 5 cm. long. 



Leaves simple, entire, cauline, opposite, exstipulate, petiolate, 

 hairy on both surfaces, dull green above and dotted with the swollen 

 bases of the hairs, pale green and shining beneath ; petioles very 

 short, semiterete, channelled on the upper side, hairy. 



First three pairs small, ovate-subcordate, obtuse. 



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