IN FUCHSIA GLOBOSA. 413 
The most striking deviation affecting the calyx of Fuchsia is 
indubitably its passage into parts hardly differing from petioled 
foliage-leaves. This change may affect either the whole sepal or 
only a part of it; the sepal thus altered may either remain 
superior or become inferior. In Pl. LVIII. fig. 5, taken from 
Buchenau, we see that two of the sepals (each with an episepalous 
stamen) have sunk down below the ovary; both though of 
different size, are quite foliaceous. Special attention is drawn to 
a couple of protuberances at the foot of each foliaceous sepal, 
the whole number consequently being four. 
In nearly the same way one of our own flowers showed two 
inferior sepals affected with complete phyllody, whereas Suringar 
describes a flower, of which only one of the four sepals was in 
that condition. The same authority mentions a flower of which 
all the four sepals together had been transformed into petioled 
detached leaves, very closely resembling foliage-leaves. This 
case of Suringar, however, differs from the two preceding ones by 
the sepals not being inserted at the base of the ovary, but half- 
way up, a position which in normal flowers is termed half-superior. 
The following cases all concern modified sepals, which are not 
below the usual level, but are placed either on the edge of the 
calyx-tube or directly at the top of the ovary. In a reduced 
flower of our collection one of the four sepals is green, and has 
the same peculiar incisions as the foliage-leaves. u 
Again, in the collection of Prof. de Vries, among other striking 
specimens with foliaceous sepals, there is a flower of which one 
sepal is foliaceous as to one half ; this half is much larger than 
the coloured half,and extends downward over the tube though 
without growing together with that part. We ourselves possess 
a flower of which two sepals show such a one-sided expans:on, 
which may be followed up over the surface of tube and ovary as 
far as the peduncle. But in this instance the expansion was In 
connection with tube and ovary. 
J. Playfair MeMurrich saw a sepal, “ which on one side was of 
the colour and structure usual in the sepal of Fuchsia, while the 
other half is exactly similar to the half of a foliage-leaf of the 
same plant, presenting a green colour, the toothed margin an 
the ordinary venation being also the same width as half a foliage- 
leaf, and thus much broader than the portion on the other side 
of the midrib.” The principal peculiarity of this case was ta 
the modified (leafy) half was separated from the calyx-tube, an 
