194° DEVELOPMENT OF THE OVULUM 
About the time of development of the embryo, the raphe 
is complete. The cotyledons are originally opposite the true 
faces. The pericarpium very early becomes black and brittle ; 
it is reticulate, the meshes being penetrated. They are, how- 
ever, closed in by the cellular paries resulting from the ad- 
hesion of the calyx with the ovarium ; 6. Pericarp. 
Suddyah : June 30th, 1836. 
VERBENACEZ/E, VoLKAMERIA,—Pr. xLix.—Fie. l. 
Carpellary leaves anterior and posterior ; style with two vas- 
cular fascicles ; ovula'two to each cell, pendulous from above 
the middle of a fleshy bilobed placenta, and from the inner 
side of the lobes ; antitropous, raphal side next the axis ; fora- 
men scarcely distinguishable. 
Coats and nucleus confounded. Embryonary sac even at 
a very early period cellular, attached by its base, to the base of 
the ovulum, but rather close to the funicle. This enlarges and 
subsequently makes a communication with the apex of the 
nucleus, or the part which corresponds to it. Embryo de- 
veloped a little below the apex of the sac, inverted. 
Raphe even at a late period not developed. 
{a. During expansion. 
b. Corolla equalling the calyx.] 
c. €. €. c. Foramen. 
Suddyah : June \\th, 1836. 
Curcuma{ ae xLix.—Fic. 2 
In Curcuma, the ovula are crowded together chiefly towards 
the lower portion of the placenta, their raphal surface being 
next to this. At a long period before expansion, the foramen 
