328 ' MENISPERMACEA. 
and a nucleus. In the fecundated ones figured, the main bulk 
is loosely cellular, with a tendency to breaking up in the cen- 
tre. The upper half is occupied by a cellular body, which is at- 
tached inferiorly, this near the situation of the foramen, con- 
tains the embryo, the lower half is entirely cellular the upper 
scarcely so, I can see no defined edge to it, or other appear- 
ances to lead me to think it is a nucleus containing an 
embryo sac. 
In the disposition of the cotyledons this approaches an 
Assam Menispermea. 
It may not perhaps be of the same genus as the Phyto- 
crene figured in Walls male flower; for, in that there is a 
one-leaved involucre, and there appears some difference in 
the construction of the wood. 
The longitudinal undulations of the whole seed, or its trans- 
verse sigmoid flexure is nota little remarkable, in asmuch 
as it exists totally independent of any inflexion of the 
putamen or testa. 
The 4 stigmata are against its being Urticez and so is 
the general structure which approaches more to Menisper- 
imez. 
1. Fruit-bearing stem. nat. size. 
1, Fecundated pistillum, surrounded at the base by the 
perianth, and in this case 4 alternating bractes. 
2. Long section of the same, the ovulum at first sight 
appears antitropous. 
3. Same fecundated ovulum removed, on the posticous 
face of its cicatrix is a black minute body, the abortive 
ovulum, 
4. The abortive ovulum, appearances of, raphe as well 25 
of foramen, 
5. Fecundated ovulum, a raphe, & micropyle or at ay 
rate situation of radicle. 
6. Same, long section, a embryo-sac, containing the young 
'yo in its apex, 
