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THE INFLORESCENCE 257 
The Spathe is a large bract more or less enveloping the 
inflorescence and often colored, as in the Calla, or membranous, 
as in the Daffodil. 
INDETERMINATE INFLORESCENCES.—In the indeterminate or 
centripetal anthotaxy, the flowers are either produced from base 
(Drawing by Canis.) 
J AESCULUS HiePocASTAN UY 
1, indeterminate; 2, determinate; 3, mixed. 
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to apex, those blossoming first which are lowest down on the 
rachis or the flowers open from margin tocenter. Indeterminate 
inflorescences thus fall into two groups, viz., the elongated or 
ascending group and the flat-topped or centripetal group. The 
principal forms of indeterminate inflorescence are: 
