Anatomy and Morphology of (Jtricularia brachiata. 123 
upwards for about 5 cm., the flower being thus carried high above 
the surface of the moss. About half-way up it bears a small 
bracteole, lanceolate with a clasping base and a small downward 
projection. Terminally is borne the single zygomorphic flower, the 
calyx of which persists round the globular capsule. The diameter 
of the peduncle is about -35 mm. and its structure is very simple 
(Fig. 9). There is a fairly regular epidermis, surrounding a cortical 
Fig. 9. T.S. of peduncle, xy, annular vessel ; ph, phloem ; p, pith ; 
scl, zone of stereom ; cp, epidermis. 
[The material was somewhat shrivelled], 
zone of longitudinally elongated and rather thick-walled cells with 
oblique transverse walls, but scarcely to be called fibres : inside 
this is a large-celled pith of elongated parenchyma. Scattered in 
the pith, but chiefly near its periphery, are small groups of vascular 
tissue. Altogether about eight annular vessels of small diameter 
are present, the annuli being widely separated. The phloem is 
somewhat difficult to make out, but appears to be present in rather 
greater bulk than the xylem. Sieve-plates could not be found either 
in the peduncle or in the other vascular structures, and the phloem 
appears to be largely of the nature of “ leitparenchym.” While 
groups of phloem appear to be associated with the vessels, the 
