28 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
PiaTe 1037. 
ARCEUTHOBIUM CRYPTOPODUM, Lng. 
LoranTHACER. 
A. topodum, Lngelm. in Plante Lindheim. 215 (in note) ; 
“caule ramisque acute quadrangulatis robustis articulis a tea tree 2 
truncatis in vaginulas cupulatas connatis, floribus in spicas den mpo- 
sitas congestis ; femineis ovatis in quavis axillo singulis; baccis divevientaie 
incluso-pedicellatis erectis 
Has. Sante Fé, only on Pies brachyptera. Orizaba, Liebmann. 
Fig. 1. Branch-bud, much enlarged. 2. Vertical one of branch, showing the inser- 
tion of an axillary, much-compressed female flower. 3. Term nal female flower detached. 4. 
i showin e ana 
i 
base of the ate er, and the a er periauth-serments. 5, 6,7. Vertical section of female 
5 further re from the axis. T 
paler are ord 5 and 6 mmetiately over the dark cone, simply indicates the translucent por- 
Ww ultimately beco into “ visci i 
carp, ee wit ree iiciie tolitiogd firm, ceutral portion, presenting the conical outline in, 
i ral 
vertical section represeuted in Figs. 5 and 6. This central firmer ti issue, when cut precisely 
pi iy axial rey is — to be continuous upwards oe the viscine cells towards 
sessile stigma. 
shows, within this firmer central tiss minute rented 
vi] Fig. 7 ae to be eee by a much compressed ielbdet body (weet edgewise 
the fig.), presenting the appe free, naked, e ovule. ame ‘* cel- 
i y” froma flower (much enlarged), oy -pilliform conical process, appa- 
rently organically continuous at its ith the subjacent tissue a uch 
), the same at a more advanced ee (seen See in Fig. 7). Near the rounded 
apex of the ‘ce body’ is a minute enclosed sa nolated in Fig. 10. This latter is 
bounded by a free but well-defined membranous wall, aes s full of more or less distinctly 
defined cells. 
From the material at disposal, I cannot at present i gp a explain - nature of the 
ovuliform body (Figs. 8 and 9). It may be a fertilized em o-sac, the lower portion of — 
which is so engaged i in its early stage in the subjacent cellular tissue, as tore appear to be in 
continuous organic connection with it. In this case, Fig. 10 must represent an early con- 
dition of development of the embryo in the embryo-vesicle, —_— = occurrence — as 
a embryo-sac 
separate base fro: i 
We have not, fata any case, that I am aware of, in Eopactaons, in which the ovale 
is wholly free. 
I recommend the —— to those botanists who may happen — access to a sufficient 
series of specimens erent stages of development.—D. Our 
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