V.liexi viewed in their sections ;nade in diverse directions one arrives 

 at the conclusion that the elaioplasts are of spheroidal form. This form 

 changes frequently with the growth of the elaioplasts becoming irregular. 

 They possess a granulose or spongy structure and consist of a fundamental 

 Erptedmacepms substance 4a w^ic^ pae finds included an oily substance. These 

 bodies ultimately presented the follov^/ing reactions: 



They are easily soluble in alcohol, ether, carbon bisulphide, and 

 benzine; insoluble in acetic acid and chloral hydrate. 



V/ith tincture of Alkanna they stain red, v\fith S-udan III intensely 

 red, and with copper acetate after prolonged action they take on no particular 

 color. 



On the other hand, the fundamental proteinaceous substance is recognized 

 by the brown color which it ass-unes with the iodine preparation, by the rose 

 red reaction^ which is produced by Millon's reagent (especially if it is 

 applied by vvaming) , by the yellov/ color which it acquires when treated with 

 nitric acid (or with nitric acid and ammonia) , and finally by the red color 

 which it takes on when stained with Raspail's reagent. 



So far as concerns the development [of the bodies], it is to be noted 

 that in the epidermal cells of the apex cf a very young floral axis of this 

 species ( Polianthes tuberosa ) the elaioplasts appear as very minute spherical 

 bodies strongly refractile to light, close to the cell nucleus. They multiply 

 by neoplasia from the protoplasm. Not infrequently, however, it follows that 

 they Tthe elaioplasts] participate in the process of cell division by the bi- 



partition of their plasma, a process Trhich takes place passivelyl 



In the culminating point of the process of nuclear division, in the 

 division, that is, of the chromosones, and, in general, in the phenomena 

 which occur in the process of kariokinesis, the elaioplasts do not take/aective 



