80 VARIATIONS IN EPIGHA REPENS. 
segments less than one-sixteenth of an inch long, pale purple. Scales 
greenish-brown, very narrow 
8. Tube near half an inch, contracted in the middle; segments 
quarter of an inch, linear lanceolate, bright rose. Scales half the 
length of the tube, broadly ovate, membranaceous, simply sharp- 
pointed. 
9. Tube half an inch, cylindrical; segments quarter of an inch, of 
which there are but ¢hree broadly ovate, white. 
10. Tube nearly three-quarters of an inch, cylindrical; segments 
uarter of an inch, narrowly ovate. Scales as long as the tube, linear- 
lanceolate, pale green. 
. Tube less than quarter of an inch, and shorter than the luxuriant 
foliaceous, mucronate scales. Segments of the corolla two-thirds as 
long as the tube, broadly ovate, pure white. 
12. Tube quarter of an inch, increasing slightly in width upwardly 
(funnel-shaped), one-eighth thick at the top of the tube; segments 
short, ovate, reflexed, light pink. Scales longer than the tube, green, 
S margine 
. Tube ec of an inch, much contracted in the middle; seg- 
es quarter of an inch, broad ovate. Scales half the length of the 
tube, brown, with white margins. 
14. Tube under half an inch, thick, perfectly cylindrical; segments 
quarter of an inch, broad linear, and rounded at the apex, waxy 
white. Scales quarter of an inch long, brown, with membranaceous 
margins. 
15. Tube full three-quarters of an inch, cylindrical; segments quar- 
ter of an inch, triangularly ovate, pale rose. Scales half an inch, 
narrow and drawn out to an awn-like point. 
16. Tube half an inch, cylindrical. Scales less than one-sixteenth 
of an inch, broad ovate, green, and barely pointed. 
On again examining No. 12, after making these notes, I was sur- 
prised to find no trace of stamens, but with the pistil perfect; and on 
examining the other specimens, I found three out of the fifteen were 
pistillate also. Another remarkable fact was that all these pistils had 
the fine cleft stigmas strongly recurved, exposing a glutinous surface ; 
while the hermaphrodite ones kept the apex of the pistils closed. The 
ovaries of the pistillate forms were also evidently better developed than 
those in the hermaphrodite condition, and the inference was that the 
plant was practically diecious. 
