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 This repeating process occurring again produces a considerable increase in 

 the number of individuals, which occasionally become isolated one from 

 another by continuing to live isolated and independent. In general, they, 

 remain united until the. end of their life, forming a chain in which they 

 attain the size of the degenerative elaioplast. 



Such a chain may also break in two or more parts. There may be observed, 

 moreover, some cases in which the gemmae form contemporaneously at two or 

 more points of the primitive elaioplast (Pl. XIV» fig. 9, d) , and then, at- 

 taining the size of the mother sphere, one may find attached to it at dif- 

 ferent points two or more chains of daughter individuals, 



Drimia undulata JacQ.«. 



If one examines the bulbs of. this species during the period of their 

 active growth one will find the elaioplast in the cytoplasm of all the 

 epidermal cells of the scales. The elaioplasts appear as a group of little 

 spherical bodies endowed with strong refractility otf^sile ochraceous yellow, 

 and variable in number. In examining one by one the scales of various bulbs 

 in diverse condition, depending on the stage of development and age, one 

 would be able to note in the epidermal cells the diverse forms which the 

 elaioplasts assume and which correspond to the diverse stages of their de- 

 velopment, imong these will be noted the more important* 

 ^.- The completely developed elaioplast appears in the form of a cluster 

 [grape-like]. Later, in successive stages, the spherical bodies become 

 confluent but form a homogeneous, roundish mas ^, with, ramifications of a 

 granulose substance. 



