448 ON SEEDLINGS 



Peperomia fernandeziana, Miq. 



Hypocotyl short, fleshy, tapering downwards, glabrous, marbled 

 with red on a pale green ground, 3-6 mm. long. 



Cotyledons ovate, cuspidate, subacute, petiolate, glabrous, fleshy, 

 without apparent venation, pale green ; lamina 4 mm. long, 8 mm. 

 wide ; petiole 1-1-25 mm. long. 



Stem somewhat fleshy, erect, terete, red, thinly hairy with woolly 

 hairs ; 1st internode 2-8*5 mm. long, or sometimes scarcely 

 developed ; 2nd l-7'5 mm. according to the strength of the plant. 



Leaves simple, entire, cauline, alternate, sometimes opposite, 

 exstipulate, petiolate, glabrous, fleshy, opaque above with the three 

 nerves scarcely discernible, silvery white beneath and distinctly 

 trinerved ; petioles shallowly channelled above, thinly woolly, 

 hairy, narrowed to their insertion at the base. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Oval, obtuse, or sometimes subobovate. 



Nos. 3-5. Oblong, obtuse, gradually larger. 



PROTEACEvE. 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. iii. 165. 



Fruit and Seed. The ovary is superior, apocarpous, one- 

 celled, oblique or excentric, with one, two, or several ovules. 

 The ovules are collateral when geminate, rarely almost super- 

 posed, or numerous and superposed in two series, sometimes 

 inserted on or close to the apex, and superposed, sometimes 

 laterally affixed, amphitropous, or almost anatropous, ascend- 

 ing from the base or descending, with the micropyle always 

 inferior. The fruit is nutlike or drupaceous, and indehiscent, 

 sometimes dehiscing at last along the inner margin or at the 

 apex, like a follicle or capsule. The seeds are solitary, twin 

 or few, flattened, compressed or thickened. The testa is mem- 

 branous or coriaceous, and often winged in a variety of ways. 

 Endosperm is wanting. The embryo conforms in shape to the 

 seed excepting the wing when that is present. The cotyledons 

 are sometimes much flattened and equal, sometimes much 

 thickened and unequal. The radicle is short, straight, and 

 inferior or lateral, and often enclosed between the auricles of 

 the cotyledons. 



