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cellular portion, there is a wall of spendle sliaped tribular 

 vessels, but could not detect tlie spiral form witli the mi- 

 croscope which I used. The rind is composed of an inner 

 and outer covering, the former containing smaller vessels, 

 the latter exhibiting a larger vascular structure containing 

 the green colouring matter of the stem. 



'•The leaves are thickly placed ,petiolated, simple, alternate, 

 and of a lanceolate or perhaps ensiform shape, with the point 

 terminating in a tendril which hooks itself with great 

 firmness to everything in its path, and when not attached at 

 foreign body, entangling each other in a matted mass. The 

 central rib is well marked, but others may be seen running 

 parallel to it, three on each side, and under the microscope 

 these will be found to be composed of similar vessels. Being 

 a monocotyledonous plant there is no reticulation of the veins, 

 but the cells of the pulpy integument form a very beautiful 

 and perfect structure which cannot be better described than 

 by the word " reticulation." 



" The perianth in its young state is that of a yellowish 

 green bud in whose form the six divisions of the future flower 

 can be traced. The stalk is long bringing the breed well 

 out from the surrounding leaves. It hangs gracefully down- 

 wards, a position which might not be worthy of notice were 

 it not for the changes which take place in the position of the 

 flower afterwards, which are such as to render the "Gloriosa'' 

 deserving of close observation and study. 



" The flower bud as it increases in size, and -a,^ the petals 

 begin to oj?(n, gradually rises from the dropping to the ho- 

 rizontal position, not turned up to the full blaze of the sun 

 and light, but sufficiently so to receive light, air, and the 

 general sun-rays without exposing the organs in the envelope 



