EXPI-ANATION OF PLATE 63. 
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Plate 63.* V. I. p, 603. 
Rg" 1. Recent Pandanus, of S. America, twenty feet 
high, with its fruit attached. (Mirbel.) 
Fig. 2. Fossil fruit of Podocarya, from the Inferior Oolite, 
near Charmouth, Dorset. Great part of the surface 
is covered with a stellated Epicarpium ; the points 
of many seeds project in those parts (e) where the 
Epicarpium is wanting. (Original.) 
Fig. 3. Reverse of Fig. 2. shewing the seeds placed in 
single cells (b) around the circumference of the fruit. 
These seeds stand on a congeries of foot-stalks (c?) 
composed of long fibres, which terminate in the re- 
ceptacle. (r) The surface of the receptacle is studded 
over with small disks, in which these foot-stalks 
originate. (Original.) 
Fig. 4. Base of the same fruit, shewing the transverse 
section of the receptacle (»•), and the summits of 
many abortive cells on the left side of the receptacle. 
(Original.) 
Fig. 6. A single seed of Podocarya converted to carbo- 
nate of lime. Nat. size. (Original.) 
Fig. 6. The same magnified. (Original.) 
Fig. 7. Transverse section of a seed magnified. Two 
lunate marks, of a darker colour than the other part, 
appear near its centre, See Fig. 8. and the 
middle of Fig. 10. (Original.) 
Fig. 8. Magnified poi'tion of Fig. 3 : shewing a withered 
Explanation of Letters of Reference. 
?' tubercles, each one covering the apex of a single seed. 
Sections of the seed cells. 
r- Bases of cells from which seeds have fallen. 
Fibrous foot-stalks between the seeds and receptacle. 
Apices of seeds uncovered. 
/• Transverse section of seeds. 
