. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. he year. Infertile Jour. Straits Branch GOEDONIA. 145 flowers perish in the horizontal position of flowering:. fertile cap-sules however resume a more or less upright position and themature capsule dehisces on the tree facing more or less is hygroscopic, closing slowly if wetted and opening slowly againwhen dried. The walls of the loculi fit over the seeds very closelyso that these escape with difficulty, and it is quite common for thecapsule to fall to the bottom of the forest with them still enclosed. The Seed and Seedl
. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. he year. Infertile Jour. Straits Branch GOEDONIA. 145 flowers perish in the horizontal position of flowering:. fertile cap-sules however resume a more or less upright position and themature capsule dehisces on the tree facing more or less is hygroscopic, closing slowly if wetted and opening slowly againwhen dried. The walls of the loculi fit over the seeds very closelyso that these escape with difficulty, and it is quite common for thecapsule to fall to the bottom of the forest with them still enclosed. The Seed and Seedling. The germination of 67. singaporiana has been watched. In itthe seed coats are split along the longer free margin of the seedand the radicle is extruded. When this has anchored the coty-ledons are raised up and with them the seed coats, from which theyescape in consequence of their efforts to attain a more or lesshorizontal position. The cotyledons are somewhat arched, and are without themucilage-glands of the later foliage. With our present scant know-. Fig. 3. Seedling of G. singaporiana with the cotyledons freeingthemselves from the seed coats. To the left are the cotyledons seen from above. ledge of the species of Gordonia the characters of the foliage helpus more than anything else to a scheme of classification, probablyin no way because they are the best, but because we know too littleabout the capsules. As regards the latter not only do we sufferfrom the circumstance that from many of the species they havenot been collected yet, but also from the fact that the differences inthem are difficult to bring out in descriptions unaccompanied bydrawings. Towards a remedy the following line blocks may do alittle. The next proceeding towards understanding the genus,apart from the collecting of more material, is a re-examination ofthe Sumatran and Bornean types in Dutch herbaria. R. A. Soc, No. 76, 1917. 146 GORDONIA. The known species of Goedonia and the Asiatic species of Hae
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