tially fium that of Morus. = 
The ovule in this plant, which at first Serel causes a dic sit: 
berance on one side of the ovary (as seen in fig. 3), during its develop- - 
ment forces itself out of it, as it were, and at last occupies the summit | 
the flower (fig. 5), having pushed the upper part of the ovary with 
stigmas on one side, It then has the appearance of a naked sed 
ed upon an enlarged receptacle. e 
'The Peradenia Herbarium contains another species of the genus, 
allied to the above, but differing in its more rigid habit; the branches, 
which are of a pale ash-colour, all terminating im spines. The young 
male inflorescence differs too in being enclosed in rather large brown 
ly bracts; and, in the only specimen of the female plant I have 
n, the sepals are large and leaf- like, completely covering the fruit. - 
Itis] ss Trophis tuns Roxb. EEES Timorensis, Done. ) 
Wes are e indebted to z Arnott for the ee notes on E genus 3 
: vo: i143; us last is Met x allowed to be o Trophis ‘pera. d 
ne, in the edition 4 possess, amd the =p one I ever heard 5 ; 
La: tieths Pel de embryo, and one side 
vided half-way through into wo lobes : the small RENTE 
between. the lobes of the iue one.” If uis 
