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Thoday. — On the Inflorescence Axis in Gnetnm. 
vascular tissue at the base of the node : on entering the stem they therefore continue 
their course through the cortex towards the main bundles, forming the ‘ descending ’ 
series. 
In G. Gnemon and G .funicular e , two other species which I have recently examined, 
both of which have long internodes and sessile ovules, there is hardly any trace of the 
descending series, except that in the older ovules a few bundles are found to originate 
from the main bundles a little above the origin of the bract bundles and to run down- 
wards from these to join the mass of vascular tissue which supplies both bract and 
flowers. 
Manchester, Jan . 1912. 
M. G. THODAY (SYKES). 
