454 Wright . — On the Double Flower of 
those mentioned below, and possibly the two segments 
represent members of two different whorls. This is rendered 
more probable by there being no other indication of the member 
of the inner whorl adjacent to the smaller segment. The two 
other members of the outer whorl are alike (Figs. 7-8). Each 
is divided almost to the base into two unequal segments, the 
inner margin of each of which is bright yellow, thin and 
incurved, resembling the indusium of Adiantum. The anterior 
member (Figs. 10-11) of the inner whorl is also bi-lobed, but 
to a smaller extent than in the previous cases ; the inner 
margins are incurved as before, but the outer alone are scarlet. 
The smaller of the two lobes has, on its outer margin, about 
one-third of the way from the base, a small tooth with 
a bundle of short white hairs projecting from its axil. 
Another member (Figs. 12-13) of this whorl is club-shaped, 
and slightly divided at the apex ; one margin bears a small 
tooth, and the opposite one a bunch of white hairs ; the 
greater part of the inner face is viscid, and has a central 
groove ; in the apical part is a small depression. This 
member bears a certain amount of resemblance to the normal 
column, the apical depression being the anther, and the viscid 
inner face the stigmatic surface. The third member of the 
inner whorl is probably, as already stated, represented by part 
of that opposite the posterior sepal. 
A transverse section of the pedicel a short distance below 
the ovary (Fig. 3) shows six fibro-vascular bundles arranged 
in a circle. A similar section taken close to the base of 
the ovary (Fig. 4) shows that the alternate bundles have 
branched and formed an inner whorl of three. Half-way 
up the ovary each of the primary bundles has again branched 
and formed a bundle of three, that is, eighteen for the entire 
ovary (Fig. 14). The cells beneath the placentae are filled 
with bundles of raphides, but no' traces of ovules were to be 
found. At the top of the ovary (Fig. 15) the vascular bundles 
diverge, and bend away from the axis preparatory to entering 
the segments of the perianth. Each sepal and petal has five 
bundles. Beyond this point the bundles become very weak, 
