not only to excite vomiting, but to produce headache, ver- 
tigo, and temporary blindness. 
The germination of this plant is very curious, and has 
been thus described by Mr. Nurraty. “ The seed does not 
appear to possess any thing like a proper cotyledon; the 
embryo, formed in the exact posture of the growing plant 
(with the radicle downwards), differs not from it m any 
rticular but that of size. In place of a cotyledon there 
is a sheathing stipule, similar to that which is ever after 
produced ; in fact, it is viviparous. The embryo is seated 
in a small umbilical or hemispherical depression, in the 
upper end of what may be called a vitellus rather than a 
perisperm, judging by its functions : this callus, or seminal 
tubercle, is roundish and turbinate, nearly as large as a fil- 
berd nut, very solid and carneous, possessing, in a high 
degree, the alliaceous feetor of the grown plant; the mu- 
tual point of attachment subsisting between this body and 
the embryo is, at first, a minute and nearly central funicu- _ 
lus, which enlarges and becomes more distinct during the — 
progress of germination ; but what appears to be most sin- 
gular with respect to it is the length of time that it con- 
timues attached to the growing plant, lying apparently inert 
at the base of the caudex for twelve, or even eighteen 
months.”’ 
F —— 
Fig. 1. totes “beens nat. size. 2. Spadix, ditto. 3. The same, mag- 
nified. 4. Single Flower removed from the Spadix. 5, Scale of the Peri- 
anth with its Stamen. 6. Front view of a Stamen. 7, Pistil : the Germen 
being imbedded in the Receptacle. 8. Style and Stigma, or all of the Pistil 
that is seen above the Receptacle :—more or less magnified. 
