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five producing two shoots. The distribution of the shoots was 
found to be as in the following diagram :— 
Diagram of bulbil, giving the position of the shoots, adaxillary 
pole uppermost. - 
The single shoot in the fifth belt was the second shoot on @ 
tuber which had produced a shoot near the illary pole, 
and so also was one of the two in the fourth belt. 
Second series of Observations. 
On March 29th, 1911, twenty-six of the bulbils were cut 
transversely at the equator into approximately equal halves, 
and the halves were put, the cut surface downwards, onto 4 
porous tile standing in a little water. 
On the 12th of May, eighteen of the halved bulbils had 
eS to grow, nine of them from both halves and nine from 
only. 
The 8 bulbils which had not grown at all, were among the 
smallest; and some of them had undoubtedly suffered from par- 
tial dessication. Of the nine which had produced shoots from 
one half only, 7 had produced them from the adaxillary half, 
and 2 from the abaxillary half. me 
31 shoots in all had been produced by the 27 half bulbils 
had started to grow, i.e., some had produced more than 
