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ON SEEDLINGS 



Stem erect, terete, becoming woody, densely covered with an 

 adpressed or ascending pubescence, pale green ; 1st internode 2-3 

 cm. long, 1'5 mm. thick ; 2nd (when sketched) 5 mm. long. 



Leaves simple, cauline, al- 

 ternate, exstipulate, petiolate, 

 sparsely pubescent on both sur- 

 faces with short, adpressed, 

 white, rather stiff hairs, quite 

 entire. 



No. 1. Ovate, acuminate, 

 very unequal at the base, sub- 

 concave, involute and wavy at 

 the margin, penninerved and 

 reticulate, acute ; petiole flat- 

 tened above, convex beneath, 

 covered with a dense adpressed 

 pubescence pointing towards 

 the apex, 6 mm. long. 



No. 2. Cordate, acute, slightly 

 unequal at the base, subtrinerved 

 Fio.sss.-Cordiasubcordata. and reticulate; petiole 5 mm. 



Half nat. size. long. 



Cordia latifolia, Eoxb, 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, stout, fleshy, glabrous, green. 



Cotyledons very large, and similar to those of C. subcordata. 



Stem erect, terete, hairy, pale green, ultimately woody ; 1st 

 internode 5 mm. long ; 2nd 1-25 mm. ; 3rd 1 mm. 



Leaves alternately and ascendingly penninerved (with the nerves 

 ending in marginal serratures), reticulate, minutely cilia te, and 

 hairy on the midrib, otherwise glabrous, membranous, light green ; 

 petiole stout, short, semiterete, channelled above, hairy. 



No. 1. Oblong, obtuse. 



No. 2. Cuneate, obovate, mucronate, cuspidate, irregularly ser- 

 rate above the middle, with obtuse mucronate serratures. 



No. 3. Oblong-obovate, otherwise like the last. 



Cordia decandra, Hook, et Am. 



Hypocotyl long, stout, 2-5-3 cm. long, pubescent, terete, light 

 green or almost colourless. 



Cotyledons obovate -elliptic, obtuse, crenate, wrinkled, wide, 

 subsessile, pubescent, green, very distinctly pinnatinerved. 



