152 AROIDEA. 
10. Ovulum. 
11. Do. long section. 
I2. Placenta ovulum and part of Pistillum. 
13. Fruit-bearing spadix etc. 
14. Some of the fruits and their perianth. 
15. Perianth scale. with the ruptured stamen (rupture not 
universal. 
16. Long section of Pericarp. not carried through the seed, 
exposing the micropylar face of seed. 
17. Anotherlong section in another direction. Seed cut 
through along its shortest diameter. 
18. Long section not carried through the seed : (this is per- 
haps the usual direction of the seed.) 
19. Seed, detached, a funiclz, 6 micropyle end. 
20. Seed viewed on its narrow face a micropyle, ё funicle. 
21. Long section of seed, a testa, 6 albumen, c embryo, 
d its radicular end, e micropyle. 
22. Embryo detached, the situation of the plumula lined out 
(but not sufficiently observed.) 
23. Embryo: radicular end in front shewing the long fur- 
row. 
HoMALONEMA. 
1. Homalonema minus. Statura robusta, sed squente minor. 
Caulis, decumbens brevis, undique petiolorum basibus vagi- 
nant. vestit, 
Petioli 13 pedalis, for about the length of a finger chan- 
nelled and bordered, at the base vaginate, ceterum teretius- 
cula superne plana. 
Lamina cordato-sagittata, vel cordata, basi hastato-sagittata. 
breviter cuspidata acuminata, subrepanda, integra, carnoso- 
coriacea, venis secondariis, obliquis, apicem versus arcuatis, his 
Aastatum quasi refractis, interveniis venulis similibus cen- 
tralibus e costa, lateralibus e venis secondariis ortis striatis. 
Foiateo Funckie 
