130 Worsdel/ . — On the Comparative A natomy of 
head of one or two cells at the top. Within the stalk-cell 
is a fungus with buckle-joints at intervals in the mycelium, 
which are either quite large and round or very small. Some 
of the cells are filled with brown granules ; very little mucilage 
is secreted. The corolla is pale yellow or almost white in 
colour ; its internal tissue is loose, the cells undergoing 
sliding-growth. 
There are four stamens , the filaments of which are covered 
with glands. 
The anthers are all bilocular when young, becoming, as 
in the other species, unilocular by the rupture of the wall 
separating the two loculi. Each anther is curiously pointed 
at the base ; this is owing to a prolongation of the connective, 
which here occurs at the base of the anther instead of near 
the insertion of the filament, as in the last species described. 
As seen in transverse section, before the dividing wall has 
ruptured, the anther consists of two loculi, which are often 
extremely narrow, owing to the large conical projection of 
sterile tissue into the cavity. On the ventral suture of the 
anther, just outside the dividing wall, occur a few cells with 
lignified thickenings on the walls ; these belong to the second 
layer of the wall, the outermost layer consisting of small 
narrow cells. 
The anther-cells are rather divaricate. The dehiscence, 
according to former authors 1 , who describe and figure it, 
takes place by means of a pore at the apex ; this may possibly 
also hold good for the two previous species. 
The stigma is clavate or cylindric in shape — this portion 
being in reality the lower of two lobes, of which the upper 
is dwarfed or abortive — and is drooping, owing to the style 
being hooked at the apex ; its surface is built up of papil- 
late cells with obtuse or rounded ends ; the cell-wall at 
the extremity appears thicker and shows minute markings 
like pits ; the cell contains starch and a granular substance. 
The ground-tissue of the stigma consists of narrow cells filled 
with starch-grains. 
Wight, loc. cit. ; Gardner, loc. cit. 
