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Wernham, The Systematic Auatomy of the genus Canephora. 



main bündle is occupied by a closed wood cylinder, semilunar in 

 transverse section, witli plane ventral siirface. The xylem is re- 

 latively loose in texture, with regulär radial arrangement on the 



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Fig. 5, a. 



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Fig. 5, b. 



dorsal side, the ventral vessels being irregularly disposed and 

 interspersed with one or two fibres. The vessels are comparatively 

 large, and but three broad at most. 



