chagrin at
witnessing Nehal Sing's usurpation of power.

_6th_.--Not much cultivation was observed on the road to-day, which
extended over a naked marshy saline plain, or through a _Kureel_, and
small _Jundy_ and _Phulahi_ district.

To Kanah, seventeen miles--_Jundy_, _Kureel_ and _Bheir_ occur
extensively. _Jundy_ is a low prickly shrub, Mimosa. There is something
curious both in the surface of the cavity enclosing the seed, and in that
of the seed itself of Acacia serissa. The former presents the distinct
appearance of a straight line, originating in the same spot as the
funicle, and terminating in a very well marked, circular depression; it
is formed by the funicle as far as the cells of the legume. If a section
be made through the seed longitudinally and its cell parallel with the
plane of the legume, this mark will be found on both sides of the cell,
but more distinct on one than the other.

The mark on the seed by no means relates to this, at least it does not
correspond with it, for it consists of a somewhat reniform elevated
ridge, the ends of which do not meet, but one of which originates from an
elevation to which the depression would seem to respond. The straight
line does not correspond with the funicle, which is not straight, but is
pushed up in a curved form against the upper edge of the cell.

It corresponds, however, with a straight subclavated line running from
the hilum to the elevation whence the curved line originates, although
this correspondence is not always well marked.

[Sketch of Jundy seed: m504.jpg]

The above marking, corresponding as it does in the flat part of the
legume with the funicle, evidently points to a peculiarity in the
distribution of the vascular system; probably it consists of the testa,
and if so, it is worthy of remark, as the main vessels ordinarily a
single one, run along the edge, and not on the flat surface of the fruit.

I know of no similar instance; in this plant the vessels of the testa are
distributed primarily at right angles with the placenta, and not in
parallel lines with that organ. If the seed were depressed instead of
compressed, it would not present this peculiarity, although even then the
two primary vessels would be remarkable. From this instance it may be
assumed that the hilum may only be defined correctly as the spot of union
between the body of the seed and the funiculus. The leaflets of the
plumula are pinnate.

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