Such elaioplasts, when treated v>»ith Milloxi» Easpail, Tronraer*3 reagents, 

 give a proteinaceous reaction, while when treated with osmic acid they turn 

 black; they stain intensely red with Sudan III and Scarlet R. 



SternlierKJa Fischeriana Rapr ., S. lutea Orj^a. , S, macrantha J. 



If one examines the hulhs of these species in the stage of their 

 fuiictional activity one will find in the cells, of the external epidermis of 

 their scales colorless elaioplasts which are strongly refractile to light and 

 which in the adult stage attain much larger dimensions (PI. XIII, fig. ll)» 

 Such elaioplasts are of a more irregixlar foim and result from the union of 

 numerous little spheres which, together, comprise fundamental proteinaceous 

 and oily substances. 



Om i jb-ho gal-ura caudatum Fac|i« 



iill that I have noted here for the elaioplasts of this species may be 

 found in the work cited from Eaciborski and is as follows: 



"The elaioplasts are found isolated or bound together in the large 

 epidermal cells of the walls. of the ovary and lying near the nuclei." 



Having had 4sft my disposition abundant material j I undertook also in 



this species the study of the elaioplasts and vifill speak briefly of the method 

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of their development in the storage organs. 



In the epidermal cells of the scales of the bulb, whether they be adult 



a£ young, provided it is in the period of vegetative activity, one finds 



the elaioplasts, which at complete development present themselves as little 



spheres strongly refractile to light, united in one or more groups, immersed 



in the cytoplasm, and situated in a position having no relation to the 



nucleus. They are colorless or ligjit yellow and more actively in a manner 

 already indicated. , 



