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‘scules deposited in the 
cells, we are able to discern that the ovules, in co ormity with R. 
Brown’s description, are atropous, and exhibit a broad parenchy- 
; omplete section of the fruit exhibits essentially 
the same structural characters as that of the ovary at the *flowering 
me. T 
Ve assumed an irregular shape. ‘The testa is composed of one layer 
of peculiarly thickened cells, and that again enveloped in the thin, 
* De Bary, Prosopanche Burmeisterit, Abhandlungen der Naturforscher 
Gesellschaft zu Halle, vol. x., p. 249, t. 62, figs. 14 and 15, 
