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Halntat South America. 



The specimen tends to apocarpy. Fig. 15. 



The normal fruit is one-celled, obtusely five-edged, slightly 

 grooved and grown from a five carpelled ovary with parietal 

 placentas. The monstrous specimen shows deep furrows detach- 

 ing two of the carpels from the rest. The apex is three-lobed 

 and the whole fruit has a length of 30 and a width of 15.5 

 cm. A section (fig. IG) 9 cm. under the top reveals the real 

 situation of things: three of the carpels embrace one room, 

 whereas the other ones, folded up separately, join the former 

 so as to constitute the three-celled whole. 



VERBENACEAE. 



Tectona grandis L. 



SColl. H. ten Oever, forester Madioen . . 1906 

 „ S. P. Ham, inspector of the Forestry 190 

 „ Mr. Salverda, chief inspector „ „ „ 1909 



The leaves of this tree show every now and them such and 

 so various peculiarities as to render it difficult to give more 

 than a general representation of the same. The leaves in nor- 

 mal conditions: „brevi-petiolata amplissima ovata vel subellipti- 

 ca acuminata" ') and with entire margins, we came in posses- 

 sion of a great number of them of which 



P. the upper part of the midrib is quite bare and the 

 lateral portions of the blade grown out slantingly so far as 

 to reach beyond the top of the midrib. 



2". the upper part of the midrib is partly bare and partly 

 flanked by irregular portions of the blade so as to imitate more 

 or less a pinnate leaf. 



3"*. some show divisions with partial denudation of the 

 midrib. 



4°. the blades are perforated with irregular oval holes. 



These four types of deviation connected with one another 

 by numerous transitions produce an abundance of varieties 

 which it is difficult to imagine. 



1) Miquel, Flora van Ned. Indiii, 3, p. 901. 



