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suggested it ares twenty years ago. Its relationship to Rehmannia, 
which is also now definitely referred to Gesneraceae, has been so ably 
anomaly described by Hemsley requires a brief explanati ion. In 
Annals of Botany, |.c., he says of the inflorescences : * racemi simplices 
vel interdum ramosi saepe valde elongati et gracillimi, supra medium 
prolifer! corporibus minutis fasciculatis peice These anomalous 
racemes occur in Henry’s eee no. 311, and in one of the specimens 
numbered 1052. In no. 311 the ane inflorescence is produced 
beyond the flowers into a flagelliform slender axis about 30 cm. lon 
bearing in the axils of small subulate bracts and bracteoles clusters of 
—in the dry state—blackish bodies which consist of a short stalk and 
2-4 fleshy subulate organs probably homologous to the first 2, 3 or 4 
sepals. If this conception of the nature of those organs be correct, the 
odies would represent rudimentary flowers. What their function is 
or a they are aid teratological is not known. Similar fla ase 
form axes, | cm. peden and extremely slender, also rise from the leaf 
axils of the specimen, bea the same minute bracts and in the axils 
profusion. It may 
detaching themselves at the base of the stalk. The other specimen 
referred to (one of the set numbered pe is evidently a young plant 
ears two flagelliform axes, one terminal, the other axillary, wit 
a few distant seve bracts and. very few bodies of the nature described 
above.—O. Sra 
Fig. 1, calyx, 9c = d orig te and pistil ; 2, androecium, with part 0 
base of corolla : 3, 8 tigma ; 5, transverse section of ovary ; 6, ca abe 
with two segments oy nas my 7. sl Sa 8, flagelliform st en me inflorescence ; 
i 3, modified rudimentary flowers ; 
» hammer-shaped gland; 15, acute hair ; ; 16, gland-tipped hair. All aie 
except 8, which rs of natural size. 
