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DESCRIPTION OF ANALYTICAL PLATES. 
Prate I. 
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The letters indicate the organs as follow:— 
(a) Corolla. . (e) Involuerophorum. © 
(^) Calyx. Eo (c) Pedicellar part of the involucro- 
(c) Staminal urceolum, phorum. ] 
‘d) Involucre. - (f) Spathella. 
(d') Areola of the neuter flower. (y) Chalaza. 
(d^) Point of insertion of the neuter (4^) Embryo. 
flower. (i) Micropyle. 
All the figures represent analyses of Daemonorops Jenkinsianus Mart. Figs. 9-10 
enlarged 4 diameters, the others 7 diameters. 
Fic. 1.—Female flower during the anthesis, seen from the outer side, and showing 
the areola of the neuter flower (7) and that portion of the axis with the spathel (f) 
which carries the flower immediately over it. ; 
Fic. 2.—The same; seen from the axial side. 
Fic. 3.—The same; without the involucra and the corolla. 
Fic. 4.— The same; without calyx and corolla, and showing the staminal urceolum 
with abortive anthers. 
Fic. 5.—Female flower with involucra, cut longitudinally. 
Fic. 6.—Neuter flower without the calyx, and the third portion of the corolla. 
Fic. 7.—A young, fruit with the involucra and its axial part. 
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Fic. 8.— The same cut longitudinally: it shows the  ovulum in course of 
development, enwrapped by a gelatinous, amorphous substance which causes depressions 
on its surface: internally the embryo sac shows several round papillae that are the 
beginning of the channels which cause the rumination of the seed. ` 
Fre. 9.—Mature fruit, cut longitudinally along the line of the raphe and through 
the embryo. : 
Fic. 10.—The same in cross section; externally are the scales; the second 
thin layer is the mesocarp with the section of the fibro-vascular bundles: the 
following dark layer represents the amorphous, gelatinous matter; next otis the 
fleshy integument of the seed, in which are formed lysigenic cavities filled with 
tannic matter, and inside of it an internal layer of the integument, consisting of 
cellules normal to the surface of the seed, from which are derived the channels 
which penetrate into the substance of the albumen, ; 
Ann. Roy. Bor, Gard., Carcurra, Vor, XII. ' 
