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Fig. 15. Transverse section of a portion of the flower-bearing part. 



Fig. 16. Portion of spadix; one series of corpora pistilliformia, with the corpus terminale. ] 



Fig. 17. Corpus pistilliforme, unfecundated? — jjjyni. ; 



Fig. 18. The same, fecundated: — t}o™* i 



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Tab. V. I 



Balanophora aloeolata. 



Fig. 1 & 1 o. Portions of male plants : — natural size. 



Fig. 2. Portion of another plant, with a much less warty common axis. I 



Fig. 3. Alabastrum from fig. 1, just opening. j 



Fig. 4. Alabastrum, opened, of fig. 1. \ 



Fig. 5. Columna staminea of fig. 2. This presents a variety in the structure of the front ' 



anther. i 



Fig. 6. Pollen : — magnified 550 times. i 



Fig. 7- ^Female of fig. 1. \ 



Fig. 8. Portion of a female of fig. 2. 



Fig. 9. Corpora pistilliformia and corpus terminale of fig. 7- 



Fig. 10. The same, of fig. 8. 1 



Fig. 11. Unfecundated? corpus pistilliforme of fig. 8 : — magnified 200 times. 

 Fig. 12. The same, fecundated? — magnified 200 times. 

 Fig. 13. Portion of a very young flowering axis ; the smaller more conical bodies are young 



pistilla. 

 Fig. 14. Another, more advanced. 

 Fig. 15. Apex of a styloid prolongation of a corpus pistiUiforme, about the same period as 



fig. 14 : — magnified 550 times. 

 Fig. 16. Apex of another, after sphacelation: — magnified 550 times. 



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Tab. VI. I 



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Balanophora picta. '. 



Fig. 1. Female plant: — natural size. i 



Fig. 2. Pericarpia and terminal body. i 

 Fig. 3. Pericarpium. 



Fig. 4. The same, with the chief part of the style removed, and the parietes laid open to j 



expose the central body. 5 



Fig. 5 & 6. Central body. ' 

 All but 1 & 2 measured, under an object-glass, \ of an inch focal distance. 



