102 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
suspensor. In fig. 47 the three lower embryos have come, ‘ 
one other, from a single archegonium, while the upper af 
one is from another archegonium, in this case the susp 
not having separated. Fourteen suspensors appear in cross 
tion in fig. 36 and thirteen in fig. zz. As the proembryop 
trates further and further into the prothallium a numberoit 
above the tip cells show a greatly reduced number {j 
Jager (1899) has described a similar behavior in Taxus. 
tip cells separate, each is usually furnished with a single 8 
pensor (figs. 43, 44). Protoplasmic connections occur betwee! 
the suspensor cells near the archegonium (fg. 42). Althot 
the individual fibers were scarcely distinguishable, the ap p 
leaves no doubt of their presence. 
_ The embryonal tubes may appear very early (fig: FD 
usually not before the stage shown in fig. 48. They are fo 
cS by the almost simultaneous elongation of all the cells 0 
i Proximal surface of the embryo, and by their grom 
oe Various stages in the development of the embryo 
ae in figs, 43-48. If the suspensors do not separate, each 
four ue cells generally divides first by a transverse wall 
do separ te, the first division of the single tip cell 
. ig. 49. here is no ‘ediestion as yu 
o the r root tipi is to. appear, and a distinction between 
periblem, and plerome has not arisen. 
a . one case an embryo was found which had grown 
ee upward and passed out between the prothallium 4 = 
. (Ae. 50), where, os sharply, it continued it 
. "AFFINITIES OF _PODOCARPUS. 
i In oie over the results of this paper, we find ' 
ap : ee e the aoe in the Nair Leste 
