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_ has the cortical bundles running obliquely, and forming a regular 
four-sided meshed network related to the leaf bases and bundles of 
_ leaf-trace. In these respects it approaches Cycas, but in the 
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4 eons wor are oa vertically aaa’ Some Cycads and 
‘ al in these plants is the correct one. 2nd, That there exists in 
many parts of these plants a series of ducts or passages, differing 
: poly. sree ied from these reservoirs, the differences being that they 
globular and isolated, but are generally connected more or 
: oi Sea with each other, and that their socrotion is not a 
clear = oil, but a id or resinous liqui ints 
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of agreement being those connected with their development and 
function. 8rd. That at least, in some species, there is also a series 
_ of schizogenous ducts confined to certain portions of the phloem. 
4th. That the dark. glands, which have been described, are in 
intimate eed with the fibro-vascular system. 5th. That the 
_ formation of resin and kindred secretions in these —* con- 
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forming corpuscles had been made by Kruger, yet he had failed to 
‘interpret their function, which Mr. Potter’s researches now full 
proved in the case of the Euphorbiacee, where the development 
: kimbera ‘from British Guiana. These were all hard woods, among 
rhich may be mentioned the Greenheart (Nectandra Rodiai) ; the 
Ducalibolly,” a rare red wood, used in the colony for furniture ; 
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