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Albumen. — Absent. 



Embryo.— Straight, " large, fleshy, oily" (Baillon). "Large, fleshy, 

 occupying the whole interior of the seed " (Lubbock's " Seed- 

 lings.") 



Cotyledons. — Plano-convex, almond-shaped, fleshy. 



Radicle. — Very short, superior, turned to the hilum, included 

 between the bases of the cotyledons and lying close to the 

 micropyle at the hilar end of the seed. 



Plumule. — Many-leaved. Sir John Lubbock observes in his work 

 on Seedlings that " the plumule is well developed, and shows the 

 primary leaves in a compound form" (" Seedlings," "Vol. I, p. 381). 



REMARKS. 



The following are the synonyms of the plant as given by Wight and 

 Arnott (" Prodromus," p. 178) :— 

 M. Oleifera, Lam. Encycl. Meth. 1, p. 398. 

 M. Zeylanica, Pers. Syn. 1, p. 460. 



Guilandina Moringa, Linn. sp. p. 546; Roxb. in E.I.C. Mus., t. 58. 

 Hyper anther a moringa* Vahl. Symb. 1, p. 30. 

 Spr. Syst. 2, p. 327. 

 Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2, p. 368. 

 Anoma moringa^ Lour. — Rheede Malb. 6, t. 11. 



Rumph : Amb. 1, t. 74. 

 Hooker gives the following in addition (" Flora Br. Ind." Vol. I) : — 

 M. polygona, D. C. Prod. II, 478. 

 Hyperantliera decandra, Willd. 

 It must be noted that M. polygona, D. C, is considered by Wight 

 and Arnott (Prodromus) as perhaps a mere variety of the M. pterygo- 

 sperma we have been describing here. They add, however, that they 

 have never seen a specimen of the former. The character of 

 M. polygona is described by them thus : — " All the stamens bearing 

 anthers ; capsules many-angled ; seeds 3-angled, the angles expanding 

 into wings " D.C. (Prodr. 2, p. 478). The synonym of this also is 

 given by them as Anoma moringa, Lour. (Burm. Zeyl., t. 75 ; 

 Rumph. Amb. 1, t. 75). Note that Anoma moringa. Lour., as 



* Also mentioned by Griffith in Notulse IV. 572, t. 609. 



f Willd. 2-636 : Asiat. Res. II. 168. (Stamens half the number fertile, half 



sterile.) 

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