and on a new Genus of the Family Balanophorese. 107 



Tab. VII. 



Balanophora (Polyplethia) polyandra. 



Fig. 1 . Male plant : — natural size. 



Fig. 2 & 3. Alabastra, seen vertically. 



Fig. 4. Alabastrum, forcibly expanded. 



Fig. 5. Columna staminea. 



Fig. 6. A flower. 



Fig. 7- The same, with the sepals reflexed forcibly, viewed laterally. 



Fig. 8. Transverse double section of columna staminea. 



Fig. 9. Endothecium. 



Fig. 10. Pollen ; measured under object-glass ^V- 



Fig. 1 1 . A female plant : — natural size. 



Fig. 12. Pistilla and glandular-headed axes. 



Fig. 13. Pistillum, separate, a, a. The nucleary appearance, seen externally, due to the 

 cavity in the pistillum. b. The young embryo : this is supplied from fig. 15. 



Fig. 14. Apex of a style of a young and apparently abortive pistillum : — ^i^ m. 



Fig. 15. Pistillum, upper half torn open; the opake circular line represents the boundary 

 of its cavity, in the upper part of which is the young embryo. 



Fig. 15a. Embryo detached; the apex is torn a little. I could make nothing out of the fila- 

 ment by which it is attached, even under jj-^. 



Fig. 16. Upper part of a pistillum, with its style similarly laid open, showing the embryo 

 increased in size ; a pollen-grain ? adheres to the style a little below its apex : — 

 magnified about 200 times. 



Fig. 16«. Apex of the style : — jj^m. 



From specimens preserved in spirits. 



Tab. VIII. 



Phceocordylis areolata. 



Fig. 1. Plant, reduced one-third, from a drawing from recent specimens by one of the 



native draftsmen of the Calcutta Garden. 

 Fig. 2. Another view, partially altered from a pencil sketch by the same draftsman. 

 Fig. 3. Portion of the head of the spadix. 

 Fig. 4. Two of the paraphysiform hairs. 

 Fig. 5. Abortive pistillum. 

 Fig. 6. Stigma of the same. 



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