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er part are occupied by vascular tissue, consisting of large 
cells punctuated and placed end to end, and surrounded by 
dotted fibres. This stem is truncate on its outer edge, Im- 
mediately adjoining this is a mass of lax cellular tissue 
brown along its outer margin, which may havea different 
structure. There is still a small place left between this 
brown outwardly curved line and the mass formed by the 
coalescence of the rays, this is occupied by a small mass of 
woody fibre. I have recognised this curious structure in 
others of this tribe. 
LornHoPHvLLuM Nov. Gen. 
Lophophyllum bigristata Ge. Pl. CCCCXCI. Itinerary 
Notes, p. 165, no. 854. 
l. Female flowers viewed in different directions. 
2. One of the sepals viewed from within. 
3. Do. with the ovary; this has no regular situation com- 
pared with the sepals, although it usually alternates 
With them, and as the sepals are usually right and 
left, one of the edges of the ovary is usually next the 
axis. 
4, Pedicelli, two lateral cicatrices are those of the sepals, 
— . the terminal, of the ovary. 
3. Abortive ovary, resembling much one of the sepals. 
6. Oblique transverse section. 
7. Pistillum 
8. Ovulum. 
9. Pistillum. : 
10. Pistillum after fecundation, one sepal remains. 
ll. Ovulum of do., this represents I think the nucleus, the 
Outer coat, distinct before fecundation having become 
intimately united to the wall of the cell; but on this 
Point I require more observations. 
12, Pistillum more advance. 
