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NOTES ON DIPTEKOCABPS. 





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Figure 142, the fruit of Shorea utilis with its wings ; \ nat. size ; and 

 figure 143 without ; figure 144, the embryo with the radicle away from the 

 observer; figure 145, the outer cotyledon from the outside; figure 146, from the 

 inside ; figure 147, the placentar cotyledon from the side towards the outer; 

 and figure 148, from the other side. Figures 145-148, nat. size. 



Shorea macroptem. Dyer, drawings of which follow, has the 

 cotyledons slightly unequal. 



Figure 149, germinating fcuit of Shorea macroptero, \ nat. size. 



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Figure 150, a diagram of the embryo of Shorea macroptera as seen with the 

 radicle remote from the observer showing how much of the circumference i s 

 occupied by the outer cotyledon ; figure 151, the outer cotyledon seen from out- 

 side : figure 152, from inside ; figure 153, the placentar cotyledon seen from the 

 side towards the outer cotyledon ; and figure 154, from the other side figure 

 151 — 154 \ nat. size. 



In this Journal Xo. 76, 1917, p. 166, attention was called to 

 the finding in Singapore of seedlings with three cotyledons : three 

 similar plants were found in Penang in 1918. 



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