FIGURES ILLUSTRATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF 

 TME SEED AND THE GERMINATING PROCESS 

 OF RHIZOPHORA AND mWG\JlERA—(co//ti/nia/) 



(Natural size. Drawn for convenience of description in the erect position.) 



11. Rhizophora mangle 



12. „ „ 



14- 



15- 



16. 

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 18. 



19- 

 20. 



21. Bruguiera Rheedii 



22. 



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24. 



25. 

 26. 



Fruit, six weeks after fertilisation. 



Seed with plug of endosperm, as shown in Fig. 11. 



P'ruit, eight weeks after fertilisation. The tip of the 

 h)'pocotyl is now piercing the plug. 



Embryo (enlarged) shown in Fig. 13. 



Fruit, ten weeks after fertilisation. The growing hypo- 

 cotyl has now pierced the plug. 



Embryo shown in Fig. 15. 



Fruit, nearly sixteen weeks after ferliliiation. 



Full-grown fruit, just before the detachment of the seedling 

 from the tree. The long tapering plumule is inclosed 

 in the tube of the cotyledonary body. The point of 

 detachment of the seedling is indicated by * . 



The cotyledonary body of Fig. 18. 



Fruit with two seedlings in different stages of growth 

 (given in the first plate). 



Fruit, about four weeks after fertilisation. (The shaded 

 portion is the calyx-tube or cup, in the midst of which 

 rises the style.) 

 Germinating seed. 



Germinating fruit, about eight weeks after fertilisation. 

 Germinating fruit, about ten weeks after fertilisation. 

 Here the growing hypocotyl, carrying the style with it, 

 has pushed upwards the lining membrane of the floor of 

 the calyx-lube, which has ruptured and forms a cap on 

 its extremity. 



Germinating fruit, thirteen or fourteen weeks after 

 fertilisation. 



Fruit with full-grown seedling just before its detachment 

 from the tree. 



