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 426 ON THE FEMALE FLOWER AND FRUIT OF

Obs. I. The trivial name iI/(^//z7/(^/yzr/, given to this species by Mr. Teschemacher, who has described and figured the male flow^er, can hardly be retained for a plant not known to grovN' in Lnzon, of which Manilla is the capital, but in the island of Samar, where it was first found by Mr. Hugh Cuming. I have named it, therefore, in honour of the dis- coverer, — a change which is not likely to be objected to, as Mr. Teschemacher {}oc. cit.) expresses his readiness to adopt any name Mr. Cuming may Avish it to retain.

Obs. II. In the general tissue of this species each cell has an extremely small, round, opake nucleus. In a trans- verse section of the column both of the male and female flower, the central part appears to be somewhat more solid ; and each of the cells, of which it seems to be entirely formed, contains a large nucleus, easily separable, of a somewhat oval shape, and apparently consisting of a membrane inclu- ding minute granular matter, which renders it opake. In the surrounding somewhat looser substance of the column, there seems to be an oval cell within each outer or mother cell, occupying the greater part of its cavity, with less granular matter, and having frequently a minute round nucleus. The parietes of the placentae have in each simple 244] cell a small nucleus like that of the general tissue and of the outer portion of the column.

Sapria, Grvfjith in Proceed Linn. Soc. p. 217.

Char. Diff. Gen. Flores dioici. Feriantkium 10-fidum! duplici serie imbricatum, corona faucis indivisa.

Columna apice dilatato concavo e centro conum indivisum exserenti.

AnlhercB sub apice dilatato columnae, simplici serie ad- natae, 2-3-cellulos8e, poro unico dehiscentes.

Ovarium inferum, placentis indefinite numerosis (parie- talibus, ovulis anatropis, GrrffiiJi).

Sapria Griffithii.

Sapria Himalayana, Griffith, he. cit.

Log. Nat. In radicibus Vitis v. Cissi cujusdam in sylvis

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