524 P^'^f- Don's Monograph of the Genus Disporuin. 



filled with j^rains of fecula. The walls of the cavities or cells are very thick, 

 and apparently continuous ; they are of unequal size, and their section exhi- 

 bits usually an elliptical outline. 



I am indebted to Mr. Brown for pointing out to uie the situation of the 

 embryo in this genus ; and I avail myself of this opportunity of correcting 

 the inaccuracies contained in my former description of that important organ. 

 The embryo is minute, nearly cylindrical, straight, white, and situated in a 

 small oblique cavity of the albumen at the back of the seed a little above its 

 base. 



This highly interesting plant was discovered at Illawarra in Nevv' South 

 Wales by my late excellent and enterprising friend Mr. Allan Cunningham, 

 and by him introduced into the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew in 1823. 



