166 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [Mal 
rounded by a mass of endosperm; the embryo-sac has destroyed all of the : 
nucellus except its apex, zw, an¢, the antipodals. J 
Fic. 16. Upper part of an embryo-sac and embryo, of the same ‘em 4 
the one shown in fig. 75. i: 
Fic. 17. The antipodal region of the same embryo-sac, uae the marked 
difference between the antipodal (a/) and endospermal (em) cell ‘ 
Fic. 18. Longitudinal section of the embryo-sac of Anthurium cordif- 
lium ; nu, the remains of the nucellus ; in the inner integument neither antipe 
dal cells nor embryo can be distinguished. 
