DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 
Plate 102. — Anomospermt™: nitidum. 
A portion of a branch of the male plant in flower, and another of the female plant 
in fruit. 
Fig. 1, a flower expanded. Fig. 2, the three external sepals. Fig. 3, the three in- 
ternal sepals. Fig. 4, the six sepals, enclosing the stamens aggregated together like a 
disk in the centre : aU nat. size. Fig. 5, the expanded flower, seen from above, magnified. 
Fig. 6, the same, seen from below. Fig. 7, the three external sepals. Fig. 8, the three 
inner sepals. Fig. 9, the six fleshy petals, shown in different positions. Fig. 10, the six 
stamens, almost concealed within the involuted margins of the petals : all equally magnified. 
Fig. 11, three of the stamens, shown in different positions, more magnified. Fig. 12, the 
sterile ovary, magnified. Fig. 13, the three ovaries on the receptacle of a female flower, 
magnified. Fig. 14, one of the same viewed dorsally (the other two removed). Fig. 15, the 
same seen sideways, to show the form of the stigma, more magnified. Fig. 16, a longitudinal 
section of an ovary, to show the mode of attachment of the ovule, still more magnified. 
Fig. 17, a drupe, with its stipitated support, na<. size. Fig. 18, the same with half the 
fleshy pericarp removed, showing the fleshy mesocarp, which remains firmly adhering to the 
putamen. Fig. 19, the arilhform mesocarp composed of aggregated, yellowish, translucent, 
juicy globules. Fig. 20, the putamen with half of the mesocarpal covering removed. Fig. 21, 
the putamen deprived of its covering, viewed laterally. Fig. 22, a longitudinal section of 
the same, with the included seed, showing the laminiform condyle on the ventral face, to 
which the seed is attached on its margin by the raphigerous integument ; the terete embryo 
occupies the centre of the copious albumen, which forms a sohd film around it, while all the 
remainder is everywhere split into innumerable fissures, into which the very thin integument 
is insinuated. Fig. 23, a transverse section of the same, showing the depth of the main 
fissure occupied by the condyle, and the sohd portion of the albumen which immediately 
surrounds the embryo. Fig. 24, a transverse section of the putamen, from which the 
seed has been extracted, showing the extent to which the condyle projects towards the 
centre of the cell. Fig. 25, a longitudinal section of the same, showing the length of 
the condyle. Fig. 26, the embryo extracted, which is quite terete and very slender ; hut 
the cotyledons are here separated, to show their form : all nat. size. 
Plate 103. — Anomospeemtjm LnciDUM. 
A portion of a branch of the male plant in flower, and another of the female plant 
in fruit. 
Fig. 1, a male flower expanded, . Mat. size. Fig. 2, the same, magnified. Fig. 3, the 
three external bracteiform sepals. Fig. 4, the three intermediate sepals. Fig. 5, the 
three inner sepals. Fig. 6, the six petals, enclosing the stamens : all equally magnified. 
Fig. 7, two of the same, more magnified. Fig. 8, one of the same fleshy petals expanded. 
Fig. 9, the six stamens, shown in diflerent positions : all more magnified, on the same scale. 
Fig. 10, a stipitated fruit, nat. size. Fig. 11, the same with half of the fleshy pericarp 
removed, showing the enclosed putamen. Fig. 12, the osseous putamen, marked by reti- 
form or scalariform fine grooves ; as this was examined in a dried state, the mucilaginous 
mesocarp described in the former species, if it here once existed, is now not discernible. 
Fig. 13, the same, mth half of the putamen removed to show the seed, in which is seen 
the deep groove occupied by the condyle. Fig. 14, a transverse section of the putamen, 
deprived of the seed, showing the intruding longitudinal condvle. Fig. 15, the seed with 
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