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DESCRIPTION OP ANALYTICAL PLATES.
PLATE I.
The letters indicate the organs as follow:—
(a) Corolla.
(S) Calyx.
(a) Stamiual ureeolum.
'd) Involucre.
id') Areola of tlic? neuter flower,
(d") Point of insertion of the neuter
flower.
(e) Involucrophoruin.
(e') Pedicellar part of the iuvolucrophorum.
{ / ) Spathella.
(g) Chalaza.
(A) Embryo.
(¿} Micropylo.
All the figures represent analyses of Daemonorops Jenkinsiams Mart. Figs. 9-10
enlarged 4 diameters, the others 7 diameters.
FIG. 1.—Female flower during the anthesis, seen from the outer side, and showing
the areola of tho neuter flower (if) and that portion of the axis with the spathel ( /)
which carries the flower immediately over it.
FIG, 2.—The same; seen from the axial side.
FIG. 3.—The same; without the involucra and the corolla.
FIG. 4.—The same; without calyx and corolla, and showing the staminal ureeolum
with abortive anthers.
FIG. 5.—Female flower with involucra, cut longitudinally.
FIG. 6.—Neuter flower without the calyx, and the third portion of the corolla.
FIG. 7.—A young fruit with the involucra and its axial part.
FIG. 8.—The same cut longitudinally: it shows the ovulum in course of
development, enwrapped by a gelatinous, amorpL
ou its surface: internally the embryo sac shows
beginning of the channels which cause the rumination of the seed.
substance which causes
round papillae that tho
FIG. 9.—Mature fruit, cut longitudinally along the line of the raphe and through
the embryo.
FIG. l O . - T h o same in cross section; externally are the scales; the second
t hm layer is the mesocarp with the section of the fibro-vascular bundles- the
following dark layer represents the amorphous, gelatinous mutter; next comes the
flesliy integument of the seed, in which are formed lysigenic cavities filled with
tannic matter, and inside of it an internal layer of the integument, consisting of
cellules normal to the surface of the seed, from which ai-e derived the channels
which penetrate into the substance of the albumen.
AMN. ROY. BOT. GARD., CALCUTTA, VOL. X I I .
DAEMONOROPS JENKINSIANUS Mart.
O..Beccari, del.