992 Berridge . — Structure of Female Strobihcs in Gnetum. 
Summary. 
The presence of a ring of complex groups of vascular strands arising 
from the bundles in the base of the female ‘flower’ of Gnetum Gnemon 
may indicate that the ovule was primitively surrounded by a whorl of male 
flowers. If this were the case the female inflorescence of Gnetum would 
have been originally compound and bisexual, and from such a form the 
existing male inflorescence can easily be derived. 
