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References to the Plates of Spathium Monostachys. 



a. A single flower, seen sideways. 



b. Ditto from below or front, shewing the two bracts in situ. 



c. Stamen. 



d. A bract. 



e. Imaginary section, shewing situation of parts of flower. 



/. Flower after inflorescence and capsules nearly ripe, with persis- 

 tent bracts and stamens. 



g and g. Another more magnified, and resting on the side. 



h. Section of ditto, shewing its two cells placed back to back. 



i and i. I. Pollen, gibbous at one side, much magnified — in II elliptic; 

 j. globose under the influence of iodine. 



k. Pistil, with small oblique terminal stigma. 



/. Ditto, section shewing ovaries in situ. 



to. to. Capsules. 



n. Section of ditto. 



o. Seed. 



p. Ditto magnified, shewing the ribs of the outer- coat. 



q. Ditto, outer- coat taken off, shewing the raphe and chalaza, in 

 various veins. 



r. Embryo, all the coats taken off. 



s. Second coat taken off, striated, dark brown, chalaza grown trans- 

 verse. 



t. Section of seed, shewing the eight ribs of outer-coat. 



u. Embryo section. 



v. Seed, longitudinal section. 



w. Germinating seed. 



x. Longitudinal section of ditto. 



a. Ditto further advanced. 



y. I. Plumula, extracted from a — II. Plumula in seed before germi- 

 nation. 



z. y. More magnified. 



p * £. Progressive states of germinating seed. 



t Part of leaf magnified. 



