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internally thickened portion (the raphe) of the outer coat, which in 
the seed gives origin to the scarlet envelope, which therefore is no 
arillus; nor has this latter at any period an opening at the top, as an 
arillus must needs have. In it the cord of vessels, as may be seen in 
a vertical section of the ovule, divides into two bundles; one of them 
spreads and is lost in the chalazal portion of the outer coat of the 
ovule; the other passes deeper and at length terminates in the chalaza 
of the inner coat. 
It only remains to reconcile Mr. Miers’ undoubtedly correct state- 
ment, that the thin membrane adherent to the albumen of the seed 
represents the inner coat of the ovule, with mine, that the baceate co- 
vering belongs to the outer coat of the ovule; and this the dissection 
of ovules and young seeds of Magnolia umbrella, in various stages, 
enables me satisfactorily to do. I formerly took it for granted that the 
fleshy and the crustaceous coat of the seed belonged each to a separate 
eoat of the ovule, and accordingly assumed that the outer seed-coat 
became baccate, and the inner crustaceous. But the seeds of Magnolia 
umbrella are already sufficiently advanced to show that the external 
coat of the ovule becomes drupaceous in the seed, its outer portion form- 
ing the fleshy, its inner the erustaceous, seed-coat.* 
Botanical Objects communicated to the Kew MUSEUM, from the AMAZON 
or its Tributaries, in 1853; by RICHARD SPRUCE, Ese. 
(Continued from vol, vii. p. 210.) 
129. Tangas of Tururí bark. The transverse plaits in these are 
made with the teeth! They are painted with Carajurü. The Tururis 
are Artocarpeous trees, among the loftiest in the forests. The com: 
monest species has red bark; this white-barked one is called Tururi- 
mérétinga (white Tururí): I have not seen it in flower. E 
Note. Among the Uaupé Indians the Tanga is the only article of 
dress, barely sufficing to hide the nakedness. It is passed under the. 
thighs and tucked in, before and behind, under a string which passes 
i i iews will be found in Drs. 
pad dnt emere ot, De, Aas Groga iera, ril We bend ja, Da: 
Gray’s hands), founded upon a detailed examination of the development of the seed- 
coats in the Indian species.—Ep. ; : 
