CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIFE-HISTORY OF THE 



GENUS GNETUM. 



I. THE GROSSER MORPHOLOGY OF PRODUCTION OF GNETUM 



6NEM0N L. 



BY 



J. LOTSY, PH., D, 



Introduction. 



The fine lectures given by Graf H. zu Solms-Laubach in 

 the small lecture room of the old Laboratory in Gottingen 

 will never be forgotten by those who had the good fortune to 

 attend them and many with me will have felt a pang when 

 'improvements' necessitated the removal of the room in which 

 so much enthousiasm for the sake of Botany entered our hearts 

 during the lectures on 'Cryptogamen und Archegoniaten'. 



It was during one of these lectures that Prof. Solms called 

 our attention to the incompleteness of our knowledge of the 

 life-history of Gnetum and that I made up my mind to try 

 to extend it whenever I might have an opportunity. 



Meanwhile Dr. Karsten, at Graf Solms suggestion also, un- 

 dertook the study of the Gneta with material collected during 

 his stay at Buitenzorg and while on a voyage to the Moluccan 

 Islands. He published two papers on the subject which ex- 

 tended our knowledge considerably but yet, as the author 

 himself states, left many points unsettled. The chief reason ot 



