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NOTES OX DIPTEKOCARPS. 



ed to the pair, the first of the approximated alter nat< 

 almost in a false whorl with the pair. 



leaves being: 



The cotyledons are very like those of Hopea micrantha, — rather 

 thin and nearly vertical in position; but the margin of the outer has 

 a rather characteristic rim surrounding plano-convex areas. Bed 

 pigment is present in them and in the leaves which follow them. 



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Figure 59, the seedling of Figure 60, the outer cotyledon 



Balanocarpus Curtisri, showing the of Balanccarpus Curtisii aeen from the 



approximation of the third (3) and outside; figure 61, from the inside, 



fourth (4) leaves to the paired leaves, figure 62. the placentar cotyledon 



J nat. size. seen from the side against the outer 



cotyledon, figure 63, from the other 

 side nat., size; figures 64 and 65, the 

 position taken by the cotyledons with 

 regard to each other. 



Balanocarpus zeylanicus, Trim., a species cultivated in the 

 Botanic Gardens, Singapore, has flowers directed earthwards, 

 from ascending branchlets as in figure 66. The flowers are as in 

 figures 67 and 68, with the petals distinctly twisted. The seedling 

 produced is as in figure 69, its cotyledons as in figures 70 and 71. 

 In section the embryo is as in figures 72, 73 and 74. 



Figure 66, a branch of Balanocarpus zeylanicus showing the ascending 

 branchlets, \ nat. size ; figure 67, the flower in vertical section, x 2 ; figure 6& 

 the flower in face view, x 2. 



Jour. Straits Branch' 



