FIGURES ILLUSTRATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF 

 THE SEED AND THE GERMINATING PROCESS 

 OF RHIZOPHORA AND BRUGUIERA continued 



(Natural size. Drawn for convenience of description in the erect positi 



ii. Rhizophora mangle . . Fruit, six weeks after fertilisation. 



12. ,, ,, Seed with plug of endosperm, as shown in Fig. n. 



13 ,, ,. Fruit, eight week-- after fertilisation. The tip "I" the 



hypocotyl is now piercing the plug. 



14. ., ., Embryo (enlarged) shown in Fig. [3. 



15. .. .. Fruit, ten weeks after fertilisation. The growing hypo- 



cotyl has now pierced the plug. 



16. ,, ., Embryo shown in Fig. 1 5. 



17. .. .. Fruit, nearly sixteen weeks after fertilisation. 



18. ,, .. Full-grown fruit, just before the detachment of the seedling 



from the tree. The long tapering plumule is inclosed 

 in the tube of the cotyledonary body. The point "I 

 detachment of the seedling is indicated by *. 



„ ,, The cotyledonary body of Fig. 18. 



Fruit with two seedlings in different stages of growth 

 (given in the first plate). 



21. Bruguiera Rheedii . . . Fruit, about four weeks after fertilisation. (The: 



portion is the calyx-tube or cup, in the midst of which 

 rises the style.) 



-.7 , Germinating seed. 



Germinating fruit, about eight weeks aftei fertilisation. 



Germinating fruit, about ten weeks after fertilisation. 



Here the growing hypocotyl, carrying the style with it. 



has pushed upwards the lining membrane of the flo< 



the calyx-tube, which has ruptured and tor.;: on 



its extremity. 



Germinating fruit, thirteen or fourteen weeks 



fertilisation. 

 26 it () Fruit with lull-grown seedling just before its detachment 



from the tree. 



19. 

 20. 



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