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oh.. 11 XL. i i . TUIUltlDACE E I 



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anial subhyaline plani • « ith a 

 cellular texture, having a small central axis of I , with minuh 



• 

 viiiv-. Inflorescence in terminal, long-spikeletted, or 

 few-flowered racemes, with alternate pedi 

 mon as, rarely polj . minute 



flowers ; pedicels brad Perianth similar 



in both ijaline, with a short I 



and a border « 1 i >. i < 1 » ■• 1 into 3-4-6-8 ovste acute 

 m. nt-. valvate in I ion, which ai 



furnished wil 



«ed in the bud. Stan triable in 



number, almost sessile upon 

 which i- : iu the bottom of the 



ii' h. or frequently large and 1 in the 



i of a cone ; anthi lived, 



irmed of two separate lobes. « h 

 numerous, aggregated on rum 



the torus, 1-locular ; ovule solitary, erect from the 

 Style excentric, Bometi ral, or nearly 



basal, smooth or feathery. SI 



ivate. Carpels numerous, small, druj 

 radiating horizontally from the r. 

 marked by the p ly basal t; ind indel 



ntriculose, bursting lM]i_itu.iinally by a d 

 enveloped in an arilliform network. Ti - , hard, t< 



with ladder Bhaped stria. Nucleus opaline, enclosed in 



a number of hi ■ 

 without any trace of an embryo. Mi* WS& 



The foregoing character has been obligingly commun " " 



has made the order the Bubji iaJ Btudy, the result of ■•• liich 



in the 21 -t \..l. of tie the Linnean S 



ription oftheordi r 1 was also favoured with the followii 

 ingular feature- is tl 

 a perfectly developed albuminous kernel, without any I 



The late Mr. Griffith in his admirable memoir 

 I /'■ l"l and 102, pi &,fig. 9 1 I), has pointed out tl 



the seeds of thai genus. Iu Rafflesiawe iee an embi 

 most simple form. /. <. a mere b cellular or granular - 



without the appearance of either radicle, cotyledon, or j lumul i h 

 the embryo consists of a reticulated arilliform network, i 

 no indication of either radicle or cotyledon. It appeal , 

 the Burmanniacese, Balanophoi 

 body homogeneous in texture, consisting of a si 

 the power of pullulating at certain points, and thus ; 

 of reprodu Log their very simple form of structure, 



svhich the ordinary embryo effects in the d 

 fibres and elaborate tissues in the higher 01 

 something analogous among ti..- _j 

 albuminous simple nucleus, homog 

 pullulates at 1, •_'. or : '- pi ints, throwin 

 Aglaonoma, too, has a solid nucleus, which in germination tl i 

 at each end. and the nucleus o( Crypl 



Pig. XfV m unified analysis of Sciaphila :••."» 

 A.; S. ripe pistil ; 4. ovary; 5 ripe - 





