620 LORANTHACEAX. 
lower end, and of these one was swollen into a ball. The 
point whence these tubes originated was not seen. 
Their observation is very obscure, for in a structure of 
this sort if they run along the intercellular lines, they cam 
scarcely be seen. | 
Fig. V. The nipple is very evident, and terminates the 
eentral column of amylaceous tissue, its apex corresponds 
with the lower orifice of the stigmatic canal, its appearance 
is altogether nucleary. T 
This nipple is visible up to a period just antecedent to 
opening of the flower, it has the same shape but appears to 
be hollow. a vessels, 5 fuscous, c d reddish, e green, f opaque. 
If the sacs are developed first in the ovary, as I think they 
would be, Loranthus becomes an instance of a nucleus excert- 
ing several embryo sacs, unless indeed the sacs pass up into 
the style, round its base, and so avoid perforating the cone. 
Fig. VI. No cellular mass is produced before the fall of 
the style, and no inner tubes in the lower part or ovarial part 
of the sacs, no viscum. 
It is difficult to examine the sacs at this period, as the cen- 
tral columnar tissue is tough and opaque ‘amylaceous gra- 
nules. 
All the sacs at least do not reach to the fundus of the 
central amylaceous tissue. 
The unequal extent of the sacs may perhaps give rise in 
some measure of the lateral apex of the funicle. 
Even after this and before any visible enlargement, the 
sacs remain unchanged with the exception of shewing evi- 
dences of the inner tubes becoming in iodine columns of 
grume, without proper membrane and not extending into the 
dilated part of the sac. 
4. Loranthus coccineus, Pl. DCXXVI. ; 
Ramuli papillos. fol alter. mediocre petiolatis, coriacels 
costa excepta aveniis, fuces viridescence e basi cordati In- 
quilateraliter oblongo-ovata, obtusa ima apicem rotundato ob- 
conduplicatior gradatim concava. 
