418 DR. J. C. COSTERU8 ON MALFORMATIONS 
and the single stamen is provided with a petaloid appendage at 
the top of the anther." 
In another flower (Pl. LX. fig. 31) the ovary was indeed 
inferior, but extended far upward, so as not only to fill up the 
calyx-tube but even to emerge from it. The transverse section 
showed nothing abnormal. 
Suringar deseribes just the same aberration as to the position 
of the ovary in a flower which shows still other disturbances. 
Also in the collection of Prof. de Vries, No. 3306, such a supe- 
rior, and at the same time inferior, ovary may be seen. lt 
should further be noted that in our case the style gets thicker 
upward, and terminates in a sort of cone with a stigma dividing 
into two lobes. In this very abnormal flower one of the stamens 
has grown together with the ovary, viz., its upper portion. 
As for the style in general, it only sometimes happens that 
it may be flattened in one direction and broadened in another. 
Such a style is commonly affected by a spiral twisting (Pl. LX. 
fig. 32), just as often may be seen in fasciated stems and branches. 
This flattening must not be confounded with a style split open, 
as described on the foregoing page. Besides the one there 
referred to, we possess one which has been laid open at top 
only, so that the three stigma-lobes (the flower being trimerous) 
arelying in one plane. The stigma, which is globose in normal 
Fuchsias, shows two furrows intersecting rectangularly, some- 
times with prominent lobes inclosing a small funnel-shaped 
space. Ifthese lobes happen to be unequal, the cup of course 
is irregular. Especially worth noting was a stigma, of which 
thelobes projected in such a manner as to produce an exact 
resemblance to the stigma of F. ampliata, a plant introduced 
from the neighbourhood of Quito into Kew Gardens in 1877 *. 
Another peculiarity of this plant is seen in the arrangement of 
the leaves, they being ternately whorled. This property, normal 
in Fuchsia ampliata, is an abnormality of rare occurrence in our 
Fuchsia. 
$ 6. Various cases of Coalescence. 
Although in the preceding sections there have already been 
cited various instances of coalescing parts which are free under 
normal cireumstances, it will be our task in the present section to 
* Fuchsia ampliata, native of the Andes of Ecuador, described by Sir J. D. 
Hooker in the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ (1885), t. 6839. 
