and on the Structure of Ilydnoia afrieana. 1 1 1 



I have also to state, that an extensive and highly important e- idled 



"An Attempt to analyse Rhizanthew" by Mr. William Griffith, btl been read 

 during the present season before the Linnean Society, <•{ irhich an ftbftltt 

 given in the Proceedings. From this essay I have hen introduced tbc I 

 racter of Sapria, a new genus belonging to Rajl ind bi ired 



to propose an alteration of the trivial name from Himalayana 1 

 in honour of the discoverer of this interesting addition to the tribe /<«//'<> 

 whose species, with one exception, have names similarly derift 



RAFFLKSIACE2E, 



Char. Diff. Ord. Perianthium monophyllum regal 



Corolla nulla. 



Stamina : Antherae numerosae, simplici sene. 



Ovarium: placentis pluribus polyspermis, ovulis orthotro; 



vatione apicis, penitus vel partim, liberi funiculi quas. anatropu). 



Pericarpium indehiscens polyspermum. 



Embryo indivisus (cum v. absque albumine). 



Parasitic, radicibus rariusve in rami, plantanm ** 

 Ob, Huic ordini appended Jpo^es et « ^ 



unquam in radicibus parasitica: attamen ] ,lun!,. 







Unt.irenerally.n. 

 and which he extends to Phanogamous planu g -^^1^ state as inclo 



M. Mirbel. who considers the "^f*' ^*! ^ expi ^ 10 n, when . «**** « 



gradually open until they have attained their max. .^ fc Mr 



the nucleus, and, at the same time, by elonga i g, ^ coDtra£iion takinp pb* 



hand, regards the earliest stage of the ^^^^J b origina ]]y uniform, and that iti coat* are 



pre-existing papilla, whose surface, as well as ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^J,; «■ "* 



of subsequent formation, each coat consisting, • ^ ^^ ; m pregnatk 



the nucleus, which, by gradual elongation, it entii y ^ ^ 



« But this mode of development of the ovulum ^ ^ ^^ 



exception; for in many, perhaps in all. ^"^ ^^ ^ficall. 



cellular tissue, exhibiting no distinct.on of pans ^ ^^^ ^^^ firrt beeom, ~S«* 



definite part of its surface, when an internal separa ^ ^ ^ . ^ ^ 

 a translation of this abstract in Annal. des be. a 



