IN FUCHSIA GLOBOSA. 415 
fig. 29). Whether or not they are decussate is not clear, but it 
seems that thealternation at right angles was intended by the 
draughtsman. The occurrence of two subsequent pairs of leaves 
would not have so much surprised us, if Prof. Liebe had not 
afforded us an opportunity of examining the following abnor- 
mality :—in a flower (Pl. LX. fig. 30), on the boundary of the ovary 
and tube there appears a whorl of four leaves, which are slightly 
red at the base and especially on the ribs, but which for the rest 
closely resemble the sepals. A similar whorl of leaves is seen on 
the peduncle. What organs do these two sets of leaves represent? 
Asfor the uppermost we are driven to the conclusion that here we 
have chorisis of either the calyx or the corolla, according as they are 
in the same vertical line with the former or the latter. Inadried 
specimen sent us for examination by Prof. Liebe, their position was 
not clear. If this is the correct explanation, chorisis must have 
taken place, either of the vascular bundles ascending to the sepals 
or of the petal-bundles. If this is the right explanation, which 
only a microscopie examination would enable us to decide, there 
would be no objection against considering the lower whorl as also a 
product of chorisis. The case then comes very near to median pro- 
lification, the flower having twice grown through its calyx—always 
supposiug itis the calyx which is twice repeated. The first 
flower shows on the whole the same deviation, though the num- 
ber of leaves in each whorl is only two (fig. 29). It would con- 
sequently need no other explanation than the one we have 
attempted to give. 
The above case corresponds in many respects with fig. 98 of 
Masters’s ‘ Teratology’ (German translation). There, too, on the 
outer side of the ovary we find two green leaves, though at dif- 
ferent heights. Add to this that in the axil of each of these 
leaves a stamen is given off, the stamen of the lowermost of the 
two leaves has bifurcated, bearing an anther at the top of each 
branch. Whether here we have two coalesced stamens at hand, 
or only one splitting up, cannot be gathered from the drawing. 
On the preceding page (p. 207) Masters speaks of a Fuchsia in 
which he found two leaves on the surface of the fruit, in the 
axils of which were two stamens. The same appearance is pre- 
sented in this case. 
We may now pass in review the other aberrations in the calyx, 
which aberrations, however, are decidedly less important from a 
phylogenetic point of view. 
