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5. Double long section of base of flower bud 3} long. 
Nipple evidently belongs to the white tissue of the base. 
Hypothesis, that the sacs are developed from the placental 
tissue lining the cavity of the interior. 
The same figures have the same references. 
. Iodine at this period violets along the usual lines, which 
are adversely clavate, violetting not so pronounced as in 4. 
6. Just before expansion of flower. 
In this no trace whatever of the nipple was seen, all the 
dark colored part is homogeneous, and crowded with granules 
of amylum, 
a. Calyculus of two layers. 
6. Perianth. 
c. Outer boundary of central white tissue, which at e, 
(i, e, the space inside d, d, two vascular bundles) is opaque 
from being crowded with amylaceous granules. 
J: f, f. Three embryo sacs, having the same extensions as 
in L. globosus. 
g- Canal of the style. 
Twelve lines long appearance as if the bases of the styles 
canal was blocked up by a mammillar process, continuous 
"With that part of the central tissue that is violetted by iodine. 
7. Double long section of base of a flower-bud 3} lines 
long. 
8. Calyculus. 
b. Perianth. 
€. Filament, which by its adhesion to the perianth causes 
d. Central white tissue with its central nipple. 
€. Canal of style, ending below in a triangular space oc- 
. füpied by the nipple. 
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