460 
Wernham, The Systematic Anatomy of the genus Canephora. 
main bündle is occupied by a closed wood cylinder, semilunar in 
transverse section, with plane ventral surface. Tbe xylem is re- 
latively loose in textnre, with regulär radial arrangement on the 
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Fig. 5, a. 
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. 
