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to be found, but there are lines running from the base of the petioles, partly round 
the branches, which might be taken for the scars of fallen stipules or the decurrent 
margins of the petiole. 
Fortunately I have been able to examine young shoots from a plant growing 
at Kew, and I suspect that the organs termed stipules by Van Tieghem are really 
bud-scales, but I have not been able to examine them so thoroughly as to give a 
positive opinion, though possibly he has. They are deltoid, acute bodies 2-3 lines long, 
situated more or less within the axils of the leaves, but falling away as the leaves 
above them develop. Occasionally they lodge in the axil of a leaf long after 
organic connexion has ceased to exist, sometimes even until the leaf above is fully 
developed. 
I may add here that Mr. T. F. Cheeseman, Curator of the Museum at Auckland, 
New Zealand, has obligingly sent to Kew several flowering specimens and a quantity 
of flowers in alcohol of Corynocarpus laevigata , in order to give me further oppor- 
tunities of examining the staminodes. It may not be remembered, perhaps, that 
there was a doubtful point in this connexion. I explained in my former paper, 
p. 744 (and Fig. 7, PI. 46), that Banks and Solander described and figured the 
staminodes as three-toothed at the apex, whereas all the staminodes of C . laevigata 
examined by myself and others, including Cheeseman, were irregularly and minutely 
toothed or fringed from about the middle upwards and around the top. I have 
examined a number of the flowers sent by Mr. Cheeseman and they all presented 
the same kind of staminode, except that the toothing or fringe in some instances 
extended almost to the base. But in none of these did I find a second carpel, 
or traces of a second, though there was a slight obliquity in the one present. 
With regard to the Maori name karaka , I have the authority of Mr. Cheeseman 1 
that it is applied to Elaeocarpus rarotongensis , Hemsl., by the natives of Rarotonga. 
What connexion there may be, I cannot even suggest, but the foliage is somewhat 
similar to that of Corynocarpus and the fruit is a drupe. As mentioned before, 
some writers have endeavoured to prove that the Maoris migrated from ‘ Hawaiki ’ 
by way of Rarotonga to New Zealand. 
W. BOTTING HEMSLEY, Kew. 
THE VASCULAR SUPPLY OF STIGMARIAN ROOTLETS.— In Vol. 
XVI of these Annals I described the course and termination of certain vascular 
branches of Stigmarian rootlets, which had first been observed but wrongly inter- 
preted by M. Renault. Instead of supplying lateral roots as Renault had supposed, 
the vascular branches terminate in the outer cortex in wide spirally thickened 
cells, resembling in appearance the transfusion-cells of leaves. These cells I figured 
in transverse and longitudinal sections of rootlets (PI. XXVI, Figs. 4 and 5), and 
also in surface view (Fig. 2 c). But this latter figure was not very clear, as the 
section was somewhat oblique and slightly compressed at c, and, as I stated in my 
paper, t it is difficult to ascertain what was the size and distribution of these patches 
1 Trans . Linn . Soc. } 2nd series, Bot. vi, p. 275, t. 31. 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. XVIIL No. LXIX. January, 1904.] 
