102 Mr. Grirritu on the Indian Species of Balanophora, 
Oss. III.—In the description which I originally made, there are remarks 
which would lead me to suspect that a perianthium, or something analogous 
to it, (in which case it would approach nearer to Scybalium,) may exist; but in 
my later examinations, by which I have been guided on this point, I find no 
trace of any tube enveloping the style. 
The abortive pistilla have a considerable resemblance to those of Balano- 
phora, but the tissue is much less lax and is obscured by brown colour. 
Although there have appeared to me to be traces of a cavity in the upper 
part of each, I have not been able to ascertain the existence of any body 
analogous to an ovulum, or any pre-existing state of the subsequent embryo. 
The structure of the style is also perhaps more indicated by analogy than by 
actual observation, owing to its opacity. 
Ons. IV.—The results of all the examinations of the fruits have been the 
same; the embryo appears to be entirely cellular, and not to present any 
obvious attachment. The cellular tissue is dense and firm ; if viewed under 
pressure and by transmitted light, it appears to be homogeneous, the cells 
containing a mucilaginous fluid and much molecular matter. 
This matter on its escape carries along with it an envelope of mucilage, 
and assumes, when perfectly free in the field of the microscope, a globular 
appearance. It may in this state be easily mistaken for a spore, or a grain of 
pollen deprived of its outer coat. 
Ons. V.—The structure of the hairs in which the fruits are imbedded is re- 
markable, from the analogy it appears to me to present with the paraphysi- 
orm appendages of Drepanophyllum and. certain Neckerc, and also with the 
bodies which I suspect are the male organs of Filices. 
Oes. VL—I am ignorant whether this plant is a congener of or the same 
with Balanophora gigantea, doubtfully proposed by Dr. Wallich as a new 
genus in his Catalogue, No. 7249 *. 
ntially from Balanophora by the 
physiform hairs or processes which cover the 
snriaoi of the spike, by the areolation of this part, the sessile solitary ovaria, 
nel subpapillose apex of the fruit. The conformation of 
the pistillum is also on the whole more perfect, 
* See note t on p. 94.—SzEcn., 
