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portion, and colour, a, a, ct, the tuberous ringed part im- 

 mediately above ground, witli the curved shoots b,b,h,h, 

 germinating, the common peduncle with its pedicles and 

 partial frugiferous pedicels. 



Tig. 2. The partial panicle Avith its germs and flower viewed in 

 front, fl, a, the double calyx. 6, Z», the spathous bracts. c,c,c, 

 the three divisions of the outer and lower border of the 

 corolla, the middle largest, and their extremities turned up 

 slipperwise. d, the second or staminiferous division: at the 

 base of this the hornlets seem to project from the mouth of 

 the tube horizontally, e, the expanded rhomboidal division 

 of the upper border, with its pinky ramification. 



Tig. 3. The back view of the corolla, b, the germen. c,c, the 

 projecting pair of hornlets, i. e. 3d and 4th divisions of the 

 upper border. 



Tig. 4. The tube only of the corolla, with the inner calyx, hornlets 

 and stamen bearing division of the upper border, a, b, show 

 the two pair of antherous lines in situ, and the sheath above 

 for the stigma c, this last being turned to one side. 



Tig. 5. The same without the calyx. The second division and 

 hornlets a little magnified. The anthers a, a, raised up and 

 deflected, to show the sheath more fully. 



Tig. 6. The second division a, of the upper border magnified, 

 showing the upper part of the style stigma and anthers in situ, 

 lying on its inner surface, and the style ascending through 

 the orifice b of the tube, straitened by the bulging basis of 

 the hornlets. 

 Tig. 7. 8. The naked pistilla, one with the germinal appendices 



o a little separated, the other with the same in situ. 

 Tig. 9. A half-grown germen, with the persisting inner calyx, 

 and its 3-dentate border b, and germinal appendices a. 



Tig. 



