426 ON THE FEMALE FLOWER AND ERUIT OF 



Obs. I. The trivial name Manillana, given to this species 

 by Mr. Teschemacher, who has described and figured the 

 male flower, can hardly be retained for a plant not known 

 to grow in Luzon, of which Manilla is the capital, but in 

 the island of Samar, where it was first found by Mr. Hugh 

 Cuming. I have named it, therefore, in honour of the dis- 

 coverer, — a change which is not likely to be objected to, 

 as Mr. Teschemaclier [loc. cit.) expresses his readiness to 

 adopt any name Mr. Cuming may wish it to retain, 



Obs. II. In the general tissue of this species each cell 

 has an extremely small, round, opake nucleus. In a trans- 

 verse section of the column both of the male and female 

 flower, the central part appears to be somewhat more solid ; 

 and each of the cells, of which it seems to be entirely formed, 

 contains a large nucleus, easily separable, of a somewhat 

 oval shape, and apparently consisting of a membrane inclu- 

 ding minute granular matter, which renders it opake. In 

 the surrounding somewhat looser substance of the column, 

 there seems to be an oval cell within each outer or motlier 

 cell, occupying the greater part of its cavity, with less 

 granular matter, and having frequently a minute round 

 nucleus. The parietes of the placentae have in each simple 

 244] cell a small nucleus like that of the general tissue and of 

 the outer portion of the column. 



Sapria, Griffith in Proceed. Limi. 8oc. p. 217. 



Char. Diff. Gen. Mores dioici. Perianthium lO-fldum! 

 duphci serie imbricatum, corona faucis indivisa. 



Cohimna apice dilatato concavo e centro conum indivisum 

 exserenti. 



Anthera sub apice dilatato columnae, simplici serie ad- 

 natse, 2-3-ce]lulos9e, poro unico dehiscentes. 



Ovarium inferum, placentis indefinite numerosis (parie- 

 talibus, ovulis anatropis, Griffith). 



Sapria Griffithii. 



Sapria Himalayana, Griffith, loc. cit. 



Loc. Nat. In radicibus Fitis v. Cissi cujusdam in sylvis 



