74 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XXL 

 shows the folio wing- details in natural size : — 



Fig. 1G. — Successive stages in the germination of Nannoi-hops ritchieana. 

 Natural size. (After Holm). 



1. A longitudinal section throug'h a germinating plantlet in the first stage. 



2. The same a little older. 



3. An older germinating plantlet, where the plumule has commenced to 



break through. 



4. A young plant with two leaves developed and with the fruit still attached. 



5. The same, but older, where the primary root has ceased to grow, and the 



first secondary root has come ont. 



