CONTENTS. 



I. On the Development of the Ovulum in Avicennia. By the late William 



Griffith, Esq., F.L.S. S^c. 8gc. Communicated by R. H. Solly, Esq., 

 F.R.S., L.S. Ssc.Ssc page 1 



II. Some Observations upon the Structure of two new Species of Hectocotyle, 



parasitic upon Tretnoctopiis violaceus, D. Ch., and Argonauta Argo, 

 Linn. ; with an Exposition of the Hypothesis that these Hectocotylae are 

 the Males of the Cephalopoda upon which they are found. By A. Kol- 

 LiKER, Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy in the Univer- 

 sity of Zurich. Communicated by Robert Brown, Esq., f-^.P.L.S. 8^c. 

 ^c 9 



III. Descriptions of some unpublished Species of Plants from North- Western 



India. By M. Pakenham Edgeworth, Esq., F.L.S. , Bengal Civil Ser- 

 vice , 23 



IV. On the Indian Species of Balanophora, and on a new Genus of the Family 



Balanophorese. By the lateWihLiAM Griffith, Esq., F.L.S. (^c.8fc. 93 



V. On Agai'icus crinitus, Linn., and some allied Species. By the Rev. M. J. 



Berkeley, M.Jl., F.L.S. 8fc. bfc 109 



VI. Caricis Species novce, vel minus cognitae. Auctore Francisco Boott, M.D., 



S.L.S.^c, 8fc. . J15 



VII. Remarks on the Examination of some Fossil Woods, which tend to eluci- 



date the Structure of certain Tissues in the recent Plant. By Edwin 

 John Quekett, Esq., F.L.S. 8^c 149 



VIII. Descriptions of Cha\c\dites. By Frat^cis Walker, Esq., F.L.S. ^c. 153 



