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  BOTAXICAI. 
  GAZETTE. 
  I95 
  

  

  I 
  

  

  '^ 
  im- 
  

  

  Hiiddle, 
  and 
  above 
  abruptly 
  narrowed 
  into 
  a 
  longer 
  or 
  shorter 
  

   "broad-truncate, 
  dentate 
  and 
  involute-edged 
  point, 
  border 
  

   l)road, 
  much 
  widened 
  downward, 
  and 
  formed 
  of 
  very 
  narrow 
  

   tubular 
  pitied 
  cells. 
  Hyaline 
  cells 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  base 
  

   Avide 
  and 
  large, 
  above 
  rather 
  shorter, 
  rliomboidal, 
  at 
  the 
  

   margins 
  narrow, 
  mostly 
  without 
  fibrils 
  and 
  pores, 
  rarely 
  with 
  

   rudiments 
  of 
  fibrils 
  and 
  pores 
  in 
  the 
  summit 
  of 
  the 
  leaf; 
  all 
  2 
  

   to 
  6 
  times 
  divided 
  and 
  with 
  delicate 
  longitudinal 
  plaits 
  in 
  the 
  

   membrane. 
  The 
  apex 
  sometimes 
  formed 
  only 
  of 
  small 
  ver- 
  

   micular 
  chlorophyllose 
  cells. 
  

  

  Branches 
  3 
  or 
  4 
  in 
  a 
  fascicle, 
  two 
  stronger, 
  spreading 
  in 
  

   very 
  different 
  directions 
  from 
  the 
  stem, 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  weaker, 
  

   pendent 
  and 
  appressed 
  to 
  the 
  stem. 
  Leaves 
  of 
  the 
  stout, 
  

   spreading 
  branches 
  larger 
  or 
  smaller, 
  densely 
  or 
  loosel} 
  

   oricate, 
  often 
  curved 
  erect-spreading, 
  seldom 
  somewhat 
  

   secund 
  or 
  squarrose, 
  never 
  distinctly 
  5-ranked 
  ; 
  from 
  an 
  

   •ovate 
  base 
  narrowed 
  upward 
  to 
  a 
  rather 
  long, 
  dentate, 
  trans- 
  

   versely- 
  or 
  roundly-truncate, 
  involute-edged 
  apex. 
  Border 
  

   3 
  to^ 
  5 
  cell-rows 
  in 
  width. 
  A 
  short 
  inwardly-projecting, 
  

   longitudinal 
  plait 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  leaf 
  above 
  the 
  base. 
  

   Hyaline 
  ceils 
  with 
  numerous 
  fibril-bands 
  ; 
  pores 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  

   surface 
  almost 
  all 
  near 
  the 
  margins, 
  large, 
  round, 
  often 
  

   •quite 
  ringless 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  walls 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  apex 
  

   •01 
  the 
  leaf 
  the 
  pores 
  are 
  small, 
  isolated 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  and 
  

   lower 
  cell 
  angles 
  ; 
  pores 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  surface 
  much 
  more 
  nu- 
  

   "jerous, 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  f 
  to 
  f 
  of 
  the 
  leaf 
  large, 
  ringed, 
  semi- 
  

   '^Ihptic, 
  on 
  the 
  commissures, 
  those 
  that 
  are 
  near 
  the 
  margins 
  

  

  the 
  leaf 
  

  

  the 
  mid- 
  

  

  <i^e 
  of 
  the 
  cell-wall. 
  Leaves 
  of 
  the 
  pendent 
  branches 
  in 
  the 
  

   ^Pper 
  I 
  of 
  the 
  inner 
  surface 
  with 
  large 
  round 
  mosdy 
  ringless 
  

   pores 
  m 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  cell-walls 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  angles, 
  pores 
  on 
  

   the 
  outer 
  surface 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  leaves. 
  

  

  yhlorophyllose 
  cells 
  in 
  cross-secdon 
  isosceles-triangular 
  

   ^ 
  isosceles-trapezitbrm 
  (always 
  the 
  latter 
  in 
  the 
  apex), 
  

   an![^i 
  ^^^^"^'^^^ 
  the 
  hyaline 
  cells 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  leaf 
  

   ^ell 
  '"^y^ 
  *^'^^^ 
  ^n 
  tJ^^ 
  obiter 
  side 
  enclosed 
  or 
  free 
  ; 
  hyaline 
  

  

  is 
  convex 
  on 
  both 
  sides, 
  but 
  more 
  convex 
  on 
  the 
  outer, 
  

   the^ 
  ^^^^y 
  nionoicous, 
  more 
  seldom 
  dioicous 
  ; 
  <? 
  branches 
  in 
  

  

  sh 
  ,.^"^^^^^'^d'um-bearing 
  part 
  reddish-violet, 
  when 
  young 
  

   ^ 
  on 
  and 
  thick, 
  later 
  lengthened 
  and 
  attenuate 
  at 
  the 
  end. 
  

   e 
  pengonial 
  leaves 
  not 
  different 
  from 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  

   ^ch 
  leaves 
  in 
  form 
  and 
  anatomical 
  structure, 
  but 
  near 
  the 
  

  

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