DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 
end view of the same. Fig. 23, a longitudinal section of the same deprived of its integu- 
ment, showing the position of the embryo in the simple albumen. Fig. 24, a transverse 
section of the same. Fig. 25, the terete embryo extracted, showing its incumbent coty- 
ledons : all magnified to the same scale. 
Plate 112. — Pselium ambiguuii. 
A portion of the male plant in flower. 
Fig. 1, a male pediceUated flower, nat. size. Fig. 2, the same, with nearly erect sepals. 
Fig. 3, the same, with the sepals thrown back to show the relative position of the petals. 
Fig. 4, the three outer sepals. Fig. 5, the three inner sepals. Fig. 6, the six petals 
with inflected margins. Fig. 7, the six monadelphous stamens, the fllaments being united 
for half their length into a central column : all equally magnified. Fig. 8, four of the 
anthers, showing the mode of their attachment to the fllament and their mode of dehis- 
cence, more magnified. 
Plate 113. — Ileocarpus Schimpeei. 
A portion of the male plant in flower, and another of the female plant in fruit. 
Fig. 1, a pediceUated male flower, nat. size. Fig. 2, the three outer sepals. Fig. 3, 
the three inner sepals. Fig. 4, the three petals. Fig. 5, the monadelphous stamens. 
Fig. 6, the same, seen from above : all equally magnified. Fig. 7, a pediceUated female 
flower, nat. size. Fig. 8, the same expanded, magnified. Fig. 9, the three outer bractei- 
form sepals. Fig. 10, the three inner sepals. Fig. 11, the three petals. Fig. 12, the 
soUtary ovary and pedicel : all equally magnified. Fig. 13, the same, more magnified, 
showing the form of the stigma. Fig. 14, a longitudinal section of the same, showing the 
mode of attachment of its ovule. Fig. 15, a drupe on its pedicel, nat. size. Fig. 16, the 
putamen of the same. Fig. 17, the putamen with its concave laminiform condyle, magnified. 
Fig. 18, the same, seen edgeways. Fig. 19, a longitudinal section of the same through the 
sutural line, showing the cell of the seed around the discoid condyle. Fig. 20, the seed 
extracted, showing the inside expansion of its thin integument, insinuated between the 
two plates of the condyle. Fig. 21, a section of the same deprived of its integument, 
showing the terete embryo imbedded in simple albumen. Fig. 22, a cross section of the 
same. Fig. 23, the terete embryo extracted, with its short incumbent cotyledons displayed : 
all equally magnified. 
Plate 114. — Homocnehia Meteriana. 
A portion of the female plant in flower. 
Fig. 1, the umheUate flowers on a long supra-axUlary peduncle, magnified. Fig. 2, 
one of the large braets of the umbel. Fig. 3, one of the umbels, surmounted by its four 
involucrating bracteoles, which encircle four short umheUulated peduncles, each hearing 
on its summit four sessile bracteolated flowers. Fig. 4, one of the four umbeUules sup- 
porting four sessile flowers. Fig. 5, one of the sessile flowers with its basal bracteole : 
all magnified on the same scale. Fig. 6, the same flower with its bracteole. Fig. 7, the 
floral bracteole. Fig. 8, the flower, seen sideways. Fig. 9, the same expanded, seen from 
above. Fig. 10, a trimerous flower (of rare occurrence). Fig. 11, the three inner 
