4G6 OX SEEDLINGS 



interior of the seed, slightly auricled or cordate at the base ; radicle 

 short, stout, subturbinate, obtuse, embedded in a thick layer of 

 endosperm, close to the hilum and pointing into the longer lobe of 

 the seed at the base of the fruit. 



Seedling (fig. 635). 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, pale green, glabrous, about 1-7-2-6 cm. 

 above the soil. 



Cotyledons oblong, obtuse, entire or minutely and irregularly 

 emarginate, slightly auricled at the base, 

 somewhat plano-convex, fleshy, glabrous, dull 

 green above, light green beneath and some- 

 what shining, very shortly petiolate, with in- 

 distinguishable venation, or a midrib discern- 

 ible in a younger state ; lamina 7-8-5 mm. 

 long, 4'5-5'5 mm. wide ; petiole 1-1-25 mm. 

 long. 



Stem erect, terete, pale green, rough or 

 scurfy with scales, ultimately woody ; 1st 

 internode 3 mm. long ; 2nd 7 mm. ; 3rd 

 3-75 mm. 



Leaves simple, entire, cauline, alternate 

 (opposite in the seedling state), exstipulate, 

 shortly petiolate, covered with very shortly 

 stalked scales, giving the leaves a silvery 

 appearance on both surfaces, somewhat 

 fleshy and opaque in the seedling stage, alter- 

 FIG. 635. nately penninerved ; petiole channelled on the 



Hipp^aejhammndes. upper gid6j C(mvex Qn fche back> gilvery Hke the 



lamina, 1 mm. long in the seedling. 



First pair lanceolate, obtuse, with the midrib only discernible. 



Second to fourth pairs elliptic, obtuse, showing a distinct mid- 

 rib, but the few lateral nerves present are hardly discernible with 

 transmitted light. 



