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mately becoming fleshy and tuberous, gibbous at the base on 

 one side when young. 



Cotyledons unequal, transversely oval, apiculate, subtruncate at 

 the base ; the larger one 2-2 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, strongly nerved 

 and reticulate ; the smaller one 2-2 cm. long, 3'6 cm. wide ; petioles 

 4'8 cm. and 4*8 cm. long respectively. 



Stem erect and forking from the first pair of leaves, terete, 

 glabrous, bright red; 1st internode 6-9'5 cm. long; 2nd (first of 

 the fork) 1-6-3 cm. 



Leaves. First pair ovate, obtuse, irregularly penninerved and 

 reticulate, subtruncate at the base and equal, 3 cm. long and 

 2 cm. wide ; petiole 8-10 mm. long, channelled above, slightly 

 connate at the base. 



First pair of the fork ovate, obtuse, constantly very oblique at 

 the base, irregularly penninerved ; petiole channelled above, connate 

 at the base, 1-1-5 cm. long. 



Second pair of fork triangularly ovate, obtuse, irregularly penni- 

 nerved and reticulate, pale green on both surfaces ; nerves most 

 prominent below ; petiole deeply channelled above, convex beneath. 



Mirabilis multiflora, A. Gray. 



Hypocotyl very short or subterranean. 



Cotyledons unequal, with long petioles, glabrous, pale sub- 

 glaucous-green, with an oblate lamina ; larger lamina 2'4-2'8 cm. 

 long, by 4-4-6 cm. wide, with five nerves radiating from the base, 

 smaller lamina 2-2-4 cm. long and 3-4-3'7 cm. wide, with a similar 

 venation ; petioles semiterete, channelled above, finely glandular- 

 pubescent. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, terete, finely glandular-pubescent ; 1st 

 internode 4-4*5 cm. long. 



Leaves petiolate (upper sessile), ciliate at the margins and pubes- 

 cent on the nerves beneath, otherwise glabrous, glaucous and suffused 

 with pink ; petioles channelled above, finely pubescent. 



First pair ovate, obtuse, penninerved, often slightly unequal 

 at the base. 



Oxybaphus nyctagineus, Sweet. 



Hypocotyl very short, subterranean, thickened or tuberous. 



Cotyledons suborbicular, obtuse, entire, cuneate at the base, 

 trinerved, with the lateral nerves incurved and uniting with the 

 midrib at its apex, unequal, glabrous, rather persistent ; lamina of 

 the smaller one 1'4 cm. long, 1-3 em. wide, and its petiole shallowly 

 channelled on the upper side, and 1 cm. long ; lamina of the 



