VOLUME XXXII NUMBER 2 
BOTANICAL (GAZETTE 
FEBRUARY, 1902 
NOTES ON THE GAMETOPHYTES AND EMBRYO OF 
PODOCARPUS 
ow. C. COKER. 
(WITH PLATES v—vi!) 
DurinG a visit to Jamaica in the summer of 1900 I took 
advantage of the opportunity to make a collection of female 
cones of Podocarpus coriacea from trees cultivated in Castleton 
Garden. The climate of this part of the island, hot and wet, 
‘pparently not congenial to this species, for it was afterward i 
| that none of the ovules had been pollinated. Thisabsence _ 
allen tubes, in connection with the fact that it was necessary . 
fix in alcohol, made the material of ate RENE and oy a - 
of the figures: are drawn from it. ee 
ost of the results were obtained from eolletoue nibs in 
July, 1901, from a male and a female tree grown in 
South Carolina. The plants were small and scraggy, 
bore numerous cones, and, though they were separated 8 
than a hundred feet, over 95 per cent. of the ovules — 
: ere _furnished with cary tubes. » be cannot state 
: : s ther 
ee to. this country. However, as | 
tical with those collected | in —_— it ist p 
re the same ‘Species. 2 
