96 Mr. GrirriTH on the Indian Species of Balanophora, 
also the Balanophorec of Java have received some attention, but I am ignorant 
of the results *. 
Oss. II.—My materials for illustrating these plants are extensive, consist- 
ing of drawings of one species made from the recent plants, and of a plentiful 
series of specimens preserved in spirits. 
All the species agree in having an amorphous tuberiform mass, which may 
be considered as the common axis. "This mass is firmly united to the woody > 
system of the roots of the stock, which are ramified in its substance, the bark 
ceasing along the places of union. The cellular tissue of the mass adheres 
firmly to the divisions of the roots, which appear to terminate in an abrupt 
manner. Some of the specimens look like zoophytes adhering to foreign 
bodies. This common mass or axis is much lobed; the surface is always 
more or less, and often to a high degree verrucose, the verrucae being va- 
riously lobed, and having an appearance that suggests the idea of their being 
of an excretory nature. Internally the common mass is mainly composed of 
cellular tissue, the cells in many instances containing nuclei, and often viscid 
matter. The vascular bundles are many, without any very evident arrange- 
ment, except towards the axes or stems, to which they will be found to con- 
verge. They are composed of lax fibres, filled (after maceration at least) with 
grumous tissue, and short, annular, sometimes partly unrollable vessels. 
Within the common mass the buds are developed, being protected during 
their earlier stages by the superficies of the mass, as well as by their own 
scales, which are then very closely imbricated. The buds subsequently pro- 
—— through the common covering, derived from the superficies of the mass, 
which remains in the shape of an irregularly torn annulus or wrapper. 
The flower-bearing axes or stems, which appear perhaps generally to be one 
ted uncoloured scales, 'The main bulk of 
the stem is of nucleary cellular tissue, traversed by longitudinal vasculo- 
scales. In the female spikes these are 
: rs alluded to.— Mr. Grifs ; 
dispatched from Calcutta April 10th, 1843, 0.—Mr. Griffith ina Letter to Mr. R.H. Solly, 
