140 AROIDE.E, 
equal subulate leaves. Native names  Verupha,  Alloor 
Gojah. 
Obs. 'The remarkable points of Ambrosinea are the septum 
of the spatha, the vertical ovaria, and the development of the 
ovulum. 
Ofthis portion of the subject, the chief points are the 
non-correspondence in growth between the nucleus and 
testa, the induration or callosity, the perforation of its apex by 
the radicle, the obliquity of this, the structure of the plu- 
mula; and the ampulation of the cotyledon. 
This last, however remarkable it may be in the fruit, and 
even before the rupture of the testa, is so far explainable as it 
happens after the commencement of the development of the 
young leaves, which is to be taken probably, as the date of 
the commencement of germination. But the protrusion of 
the radicle from the apex of the nucleus long before this 
process has commenced, its immediately taking on a ten- 
dency to a downwards direction, and the development 
of the plumula outside those coats in which, in accordance 
with generalaties, it should be developed, are singular ano- 
malics. 
(When the fruit has attained a large size, the ovula are 
comparatively unchanged, they are urceolate, the base of the 
testa having become nearly globular, this tegument is crowded 
and its surface rendered irregular by fascicles of raphides. 
I see now only one tegument, but it looks like a secundine, 
with a nucleus incorporated in it, the centre of this is occu- 
pied by asub-hour glass cavity, and in its apex is distin- 
guishable a grumous mass. 4 
Pressure does not demonstrate any lining membrane, but it 
‘causes the escape of the grumous mass, and of the fluid con- 
tents. The ovules at this period are a good deal imbedded in 
hairs, these seem to retain their original appearance. 
A magnifying power of 1-250 shews a mebranous tube, per- 
haps traceable throughout the neck of the nucleus, at its wider 
