524 Prof. Dow’s Monograph of the Genus Disporum. 
filled with grains of fecula. "The walls of the cavities or cells are very thick, 
and apparently continuous; they are of unequal size, and their section exhi- 
bits usually an elliptical outline. 
I am indebted to Mr. Brown for pointing out to me the situation of the 
embryo in this genus; and I avail myself of this opportunity of correcting 
the inaccuracies contained in my former description of that important organ. 
The embryo is minute, nearly cylindrical, straight, white, and situated in a 
small oblique cavity of the albumen at the back of the seed a little above its. 
base. 
This highly interesting plant was discovered at Illawarra in New South 
Wales by my late excellent and enterprising friend Mr. Allan Cunningham, 
and by him introduced into the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew in 1823. 
