DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 
its very thin integument, showing the deep groove occupied by the condyle, which extends 
along the entire length of the ventral face. Fig. 16, a transverse section of the same, 
showing the central position of the embryo and the deeply ruminated albumen, the fissures 
of which are penetrated by the thin integument. Fig. 17, a longitudinal section of the 
same, showing the relative length and thickness of the enclosed embryo. Fig. 18, the 
embryo extracted, shown sideways and in front, and also with the cotyledons separated by 
force : all nat. size. 
Plate 104.— Tiliacoea racejiosa. 
A portion of a branch of the male plant in flower, and an analysis of the fruit of the 
female plant. 
Fig. 1, a branchlet of the male raceme, with its three pediceUated flowers. Fig. 2, a 
single flower. Fig. 3, the three outer sepals. Fig. 4, the three intermediate sepals. 
Fig. 5, the three inner sepals. Fig. 6, the six stamens, with the six scale-like petals at 
their base : all nat. size. Fig. 7, the six petals, shown in different positions, three of which 
are seen attached externally by their claw to the base of the stamens, much magnified. 
Fig. 8, a branchlet of the raceme of the female flower in fruit, nut. size. Fig. 9, the 
same, magnified, showing on the summit of the pedicel the common receptacle, out of 
which spring seven carpophora, from which five of the stipitate drupes have fallen ; 
all these are growths from a single flower, lengthening after the fall of the sepals, 
when they begin to carry up the several ovaries as here shown. Fig. 10, one of the 
stipitated di'upes. Fig. 11, longitudinal section of the putamen, with its thin exsiccated 
pericarp, showing the incomplete dissepiment, which gives a bimarsupial shape to the cell 
and a hippocrepical form to the enclosed seed. Fig. 12, a transverse section of the same, 
showing the bimarsupial cell. Fig. 13, the same, from which the seed has not been 
removed. Fig. 14, the seed removed, covered with its thin integument, the folds of which 
penetrate the fissures of the ruminated albumen ; it is attached at its sinus to the edge of 
the condylar septum. Fig. 15, a longitudinal section of the same, showing the position 
of the embryo within the ruminated albumen. Fig. 16, the embryo, seen edgeways. 
Fig. 17, the same, seen more upon its face, showing the strap-shaped incumbent cotyledons 
to be much broader and longer than the terete radicle : all magnified to the same scale. 
Plate 105. — Abuta heteeophylla. 
A portion of a branch of the male plant in flower, and an analysis of its fruit. 
Fig. 1, a flower before expansion, mit. size. Fig. 2, the same, magnified. Fig. 3, the 
three outer bracteiform sepals Fig. 4, the three intermediate sepals, smooth inside. 
Fig. 5, the three inner sepals with valvate mstivation. Fig. 6, the six stamens ; all equally 
magnified. Fig. 7, three of the same stamens, shown in difierent positions, more 
magnified. Fig. 8, the same, anthers laterally attached to the filament, seen from above. 
Fig. 9, a female flower, magnified. Fig. 10, the same with two outer series of sepals 
removed, showing the three equal inner sepals closed in valvate aestivation (an error is 
made in the middle one, which is much too narrow). Fig. 11, the six sterile stamens that 
surround the three ovaries. Fig. 12, one of these, shown larger. Fig. 13, one of the 
three ovaries seated on the gynaecium : all {except Fig. 12) magnified to the same scale. 
Fig. 14, one of the substipitate drupes, covered with dense tomentum. Fig. 15, the 
putamen deprived of its exsiccous pericarp. Fig. 16, a longitudinal section of the same, 
showing its bimarsupial cell, divided by a condylar incomplete septum. Fig. 17, a longi- 
