378 PODOSTEMACE. 
Fructus capsularis ovatus, utrinque equalis subacutusque, 
pedunculum brevem ipso duplo 3-plo breviorem terminans 
(stipite proprio non elongato, pedunculo duplo breviore.) 
:Pedunculo demum nudo, lamina interior capsule, decolorate 
e cellulis transversa dispositis formata. 
Capsula costis sub 16. 
Semina oblonga, (immatura) omnino ut in P. Wallichii, 
Nucleus obovatus, parte attenuata supera, basin affixus. 
Oss. The fronds of this plant are coriaceous, the cells of 
both cuticles? being oblong. The intermediate substance 
being white cellular and somewhat lax, it has no stomata. 
Each axis of inflorescence is perfectly distinct, the frond 
moreover is entirely cellular, these axes appear at their 
bases to perforate the substance of the frond, and to be ap- 
plied to the surface of the body over which the frond is 
Spread, on detaching them, small round holes are left, pet- 
forating the frond completely, the same thing is visible on old 
plants, the frond of which appears to be a brownish thickish 
lobed film. spread over the stone, its surface being frequently 
perforated. 
In very young flowers there is a central axis to the fila- 
ment as well as to each of its crura, running to the connec- 
tivum. I can say nothing as to its vascularity, the filament 
and its crura are at this time very short, and not developed 
in the same ratio with the subulate processes. 
The ovula at the same period are cellular oblong without 
any opening. 
The capsules seem to be formed of 2 carpellary leaves 
each of which has 8 coste exclusive of 2 marginal ones 9 
3 the size, by approximating these, we have the capsule 12- 
costate, the coste formed by the margins of the carpellary 
leaves being duplicate and formed on both leaves. The de- 
hiscence will I think be bivalvular, and septicidal. There 
is no septa attached to the parietes of the ovarium, but the 
placenta is certainly adnate to a septum, whose membrana" 
ceous margins project somewhat on either side. 
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