KNOWLEDGE OF MONOCOTYLEDONOUS SAPROPHYTES. 155 
Sir Joseph Hooker made some anatomical observations on 
Cyrtosia Lindleyana (Hook. f. & Thoms.), whieh grows in tem- 
perate woods at a height of 5000-7000 feet on the Himalayas 
and Khasia mountains. He says that the tissues abound in 
Fig. 1. 
Young plant of Galeola javanica. 
a viscid fluid, and are formed of a loose cellular tissue full oí 
oblong and quadrate cells containing raphides, and traversed 
by stout woody bundles. The latter are composed of spira y 
marked tubes, long superimposed cells with dotted walls, very 
broad tracheæ, and thick-walled tubes with their walls per 
forated by pores surrounded by diska (bordered pits, P.G.) muc 
i woody tissue of Coniferz. 
e ficken montions the multicellular hairs of the ovary, and, 
says that along the back of each placenta is a dense mass of 
white conducting (P) tissue formed of delicate white transpar 
aie Sic Joseph Hooker showed that the xylem elements of the 
