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and the seed free from the central agri Finally, the tips — 
et and the seed set entirely fre The seeds cannot 
dest: ned to = carried for very long Tiatunces, as the plume is 
readily detac 
is difficult to see what function can be fulfilled by the more 
or leas shreddy or fleshy eminences which stud the a surfaces 
of some ee they may be mere relics of a past ti 
owing el _ reference to various Aéslopiads sent ; 
they waa jotted dow odd moments, and mostly relate to 
characters eich it was S disioht might not be so obvious in the 
dried specimens. ixamination of such species as have been met 
with here aaaenes me that the valves upon either side of the slit 
which overlies the stigmatic chamber are essentially pistillar in 
structure ; they are therefore referred to in the following notes as 
stigmatic valves. A low w power of thirty ee was used 
when anne et except where near a 
rapodium costatum EK. Mey. (965). etal srs fleshy, dull- 
co eloured. ae ee: whit; booby forming cup-like hollows 
Tl 
constitute the clasping s urface. = e corpusculum is long with a 
beak- tory projection at aes upper en 
Dichalia ne 8. “ib (967) (see p. a> —An incon 
spicuous plant, growing among sandstone rocks. The valves of 
stigmatic ¢ ten have everted edges. The corpu a is in- 
ferior. Pollen-masses oval, laterally compressed. Retinacula 
short and stout. 
hizoglossum aoe ees ee oo — Corolla greenish. 
Cuculli horned, each horn wit o small lateral processes upon 
Retinacula short and thick. The valves of signatio he form 
a gaping mouth below at the — a term may coveniently 
designate the point at which the valves stile from the perpen 
and continued downw 
cucullar horn. It is nseciecwcekley that, even in the flower, section 
shows quite clearly the emergences upon the external walls of the 
———- Sekizoglossum guelense N. E. Br. (1009).—Erect habit. Green, 
