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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE M. 



1. The fruit-bearing top of a sprig ; \ natural size, showing the 

 fruit in varying stages of development. 



2. The mature fruit with the orange cup-shaped torus (natural size). 



3. A vertical section of the mature nut, after the torus has dried 

 up and fallen ; showing the pericarp with its outer and inner laminae, 

 and the intervening space occupied by the dark resinous juice 

 (natural size). The white portion shows the cotyledon of one side. 



4. A terminal raceme bearing hermaphrodite flowers (half the 

 natural size). 



5. A hermaphrodite flower looked at from above (natural size). 



6. A hermaphrodite flower looked at sideways (natural size) ; 

 shows the position of the accrescent calyx. 



7. Part of a panicle bearing male flowers only (half the natural size). 



8. A male flower looked at from above (natural size). 

 DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLEMENTARY PLATE M. 



1. Male flower looked at from above (after Wight, much magnified). 



2. Hermaphrodite flower (modified after Wight, much magni- 

 fied) ; X showing the stamen slightly drawn down to expose 

 fully the ovary, and the three styles with their stigmata (front view). 



3. Hermaphrodite flower (after Wight, much magnified) j back 

 view showing the relative size of the sepals and petals, and the posi- 

 tion of the accrescent calyx, with a curved dark line. 



4. Transverse section of the nut, about the middle diagrammati- 

 cally showing the cellular receptacles of the acrid resinous fluid 

 between the outer and inner laminaa of the pericarp, in a young fruit 

 before the cotyledons are fully formed (natural size). 



5. Hairs forming the tomentum of leaves and fruit in various shapes 

 described in the text, as seen under the microscope (magnified 200 times). 



6. Vertical section of the fruit and accrescent calyx and disk 

 (diagrammatic and modified after Roxburgh, showing the receptacles 

 of the acrid oily fluid ; the pendulous cotyledons ; and the position 

 of the embryo. The asterisk at the top shows the position oi the 

 insertion of the styles (natural size). 



7. Cotyledons separated and in juxtaposition (after Roxburgh ; 

 natural size). 



8. Plumule (much magnified, after Roxburgh). 



