130 DEVELOPMENT OF THE FLOWER. 
26. The neck of the same, 1-20th, cells very indistinctly 
developed. 
The same continued. Plate 43—Fig. 1. 
Pistillum with its petiole embracing the flower bud 
. The same, base of the petiole enlarged. 
Base of the petiole with two stipules shewing the 
venation. 
Front view of an ovule. 
Upper ovuliform leaf, with 
The third ovulum, the dotted lines refer them to 
their places. 
Ganges : 1841. 
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Monstrosity of Melilotus Officinalis. Plate 48—Fig. 2. 
I found this on a hill near Boulogne, a. p. 1831. It shews 
the metamorphosis of the ovarium into a leaf, bearing ovula 
on its margins, remarkably well. No. 2, presents an axis, the 
growth of which has not been arrested at the usual period. 
1. Flower: legume much larger than natural. 
2. Do. the axis of which has become elongated, the result 
is, two flowers proceeding from that which ought to 
have been the terminal one. 
3. Flower, much deformed. 
4, 5,6. Petal, anther, and ovarium of the same. 
7. Calyx and legume re-converted into a carpellary leaf. 
8. Legume open along the edge or placentary margin. 
9. Legume converted into a nearly expanded leaf; at 
the base of its pedicel, are the remains of the sta- 
mina ; the margins of all these open legumes were 
very glandular, and of a red colour. 
Deformation in a species of Goodyera. Plate 41. 
In this curious instance, which occurred in a species of 
Goodyera, found growing in the Tea jungles of Tingri, and 
exclusively in one, out of the only two specimens gathered, 
the perianth was fully and perfectly developed in all its 
