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IN the course of a broad investigation of the comparative anatomy of the monocotyledons at present in progress at the Jodrell Laboratory, Kew, an exceptionally interesting arrangement of vascular bundles in the leaf of the family Thurniaceae has been observed.
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CUTLER, D. Inverted Vascular Bundles in the Leaf of the Thurniaceae. Nature 198, 1111–1112 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1981111a0
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