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ON SEEDLINGS 



and as wide ; petiole flattened above or biconvex, thinly hairy, 5- 

 6'5 mm. long. 



Stem herbaceous, dwarf, decumbent, terete, densely hairy with 

 adpressed hairs, pale green; 1st internode 5-6 mm. long; 2nd 

 5-5'5 mm. 



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

 alternately incurvinerved, reticulate, ciliate, somewhat hairy beneath 

 and on the midrib above with adpressed hairs, otherwise glabrous, 

 deep green with irregular white bands on the principal nerves, and 

 closely marked with minute short striae and little gland-like dots, 

 much paler beneath or almost glaucous ; petioles biconvex, or sub- 

 terete, densely covered with adpressed whitish hairs. 



First pair of leaves broadly oval, rounded at both ends or slightly 

 cordate at the base. 



Second pair broadly oval, less rounded at the apex than the first 

 pair, and slightly more cordate at the base. 



Asystasia coromandeliana, Nees (fig. 582). 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, striated, glabrous, pale green, 1-8-2-2 cm. 

 long. 



Cotyledons obliquely or unequally rotund, entire, petiolate, sud- 

 denly tapered into the petiole, 

 alternately incurvinerved, ir- 

 regularly reticulate, glabrous, 

 foliaceous, dull green above, 

 pale or subglaucous beneath ; 

 lamina 2'2-2'6 cm. long, 2'3- 

 2-5 cm. wide ; petiole broadly 

 channelled on the upper side, 

 convex on the back, pubescent 

 at the edges, otherwise gla- 

 brous, about 1'35 cm. long. 



Stem erect, terete, bright 

 green, longitudinally striate, 

 thinly pubescent with whitish 

 hairs curved downwards, fur- 

 rowed on the sides alternating 

 with the leaves next above ; 

 1st internode 2'7-3 cm. 

 long. 



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

 alternately incurvinerved, and reticulate with the nerves branching, 



FIG. 582. Asystasia coromandeliana. 

 Half nat. size. 



