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the interior of a flower or from the little stalks constituting 

 the inflorescence. I have never seen any indication of a perianth 

 at the base of the leafy branches so that I am inclined to 

 admit — and so is Mr. Smith who has examined fresh material — 

 that a few howerstalks have grown out to leafy brauchlets. 



Amarantaceae. 



Gomphrena globosa L. 



Coll. J. J. S. in horto bog. 1910. 



Habitat the East Indies. 



From the axils of the leaves immediately under the flower- 

 head there spring four secondary headlets each with an invo- 

 lucellum. This deviation calls strongly to mind what in some 

 Compositae is referred to as "hen and chickens 11 . 



Aizoaceae. 



Tetragonia expansa Murr. 



Coll. C. A. Backer in suo horto Buitenzorg. 



Habitat Australia, Japan, S. America, also cultivated on the 

 mountains of Java. 



One of the flowers bears a secondary flower in the axil of one 

 of the cornicles that crown the fruit, in another flower one 

 of the cornicles has grown out to a leaf in whose axil also a 

 flower is created: consequently these are cases of lateral prolifi- 

 cation. The question arises whether the so called sepals are in 

 reality not stamens and the cornicles have not the value of sepals 1 ). 



Saxifragaceae. 



Dichroa febrifuga Lour. 



Coll. Dr. A. Rant, Tjinjiroean 1911. 



Habitat Java, Philippines, India. 



The two specimens present a remarkable case of syinphylly. 



J) This case seems quite different from that described and criticized bv Penzig 

 I. p. 509. 



