172 NOTE ON INFLORESCENCE AND FLOWER OF GNETUM 
Fig. 7. An inflorescence in which the main axis has lost hy injury all but one node which 
hears six incomplete female flowers and a lateral mixed inflorescence replacing 
a seventh female flower x 4. 
S = broken surface of main axis. 
Fig. 8 A — C. Three of a series of long, sections of the lower part of a male inflorescence. 
h = hairs. 
A. The cupule of the lowest node is free on the left ; completely concrescent on 
the right. 
B. Leaf tip still concrescent with cupule above ; a canal containing nodal 
meristem (M) between the cupule and the main axis. 
C. Leaf tip free from cupule above, still concrescent with upper edge of nodal 
meristem. The rest of the meristem is therefore still enclosed in the canal. 
In the next section of the series, the cupule is completely free and the nodal 
meristem exposed on the right as on the left. 
Fig. 9 A — C. Median longitudinal sections ( parallel to axis of inflorescence) through 
successively older stages of young male flowers. 
U = upper, L = lower edges of envelope ; an = anther primordium ; =male flower 
next above. 
Ax 300; B, Cx 150. 
Fig. 10 A, B. Long, sections ( transverse to the axis of the inflorescence) through two 
stages of the young male flower. The younger (A) is slightly more advanced 
than that of Fig. 9 C. U = upper edge of envelope ; an = anther primordium. 
A x 158; B x 150. 
Fig. 11 A — D. The first and second (A, B) and two later (C, D) successive (slightly 
oblique) transverse sections of a series of the young male flower in which the 
growth of the edge of the envelope is complete. The median vertical plane 
of the flower is indicated by the arrow. The greater development of the 
upper edge (U) of the envelope is very marked. The anthers are seen in C 
and D x 80. 
Fig. 12. Long, sect., parallel to the axis of the inflorescence through the base of a male 
flower, shewing the origin of the vascular supply to the envelope x 21. 
