46 ARISAEMA TRIPHYLLUM 
Fic. 54. Top of a pistillate spike, showing sterile bracts, Br. X 1. 
Fic. 55. One of the bracts shown in 54, e 
Fic. 56. A group of ovaries with apparently confluent stigmas. X 3. 
A diagrammatic section of group in FIG. 56, showing the ovaries and 
stigmas really distinct. 3 
Fic. 58. A double ov xX 3 
Fic. 59. A cross Dicer m ‘en ovary shown in FIG. 58, showing the ovules at- 
tached to the median wall. 
Fics. 60, 61, Two views fe a flower with three functional ovules, O, and two 
PAESE anthers, A, on a partly suppressed ovary wall. X3 
Fic. 62. A cleft ovary with normal stigmas, St; a bint tke lobe, L; and two 
anthers, A. X 
Fic. 63. A section of the ovary shown in FIG, 62, showing well-developed ovules 
K 3- 
Fic. 64. A flower with one ovule, O, the ovary walls almost entirely suppressed 
and roi four anther cells, x 3- 
Fic. 65. structure mithat ovary walls, bearing two anthers, A, and instead 
of ovules, two sterile bracts, Br. X3 
n abnormally PORE R ovary with functional ovules in the base, 
IG 
but with ri style, S, unclosed and its surface without stigmatic hairs. 
A section of the ovary in FIG. 66. X3. 
si 1G. 68. A cleft ovary with normal stigma, St, and a two-celled anther, A, on 
the wall margin. X3. 
Fic. 69. A cross section of the structurés shown in FIG. 68. X 3. 
