198 ALTERATION OF POSITION. 



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Crozophora tinctoria, Siiregada sp., Phyllanthus longi- 



folius, Breynia sp., Philyra hrasiliensiSi Ricinus com- 



muniSj Gonceveiha macrophylla, Cluytia semperJiorenSj 



Wall, non Roxb. Mercurialis annuu and Gleistanthus 



poly stachy lis. 



In some of these cases the hermaphroditism is due 

 to the development of anthers on the usually barren 

 staminodes, though, in other cases, the stamens would 

 seem to be separate, independent formations, as they 

 do not occupy the same relative position that the 

 ordinary stamens would do if developed.^ 



Robert Brown^ observed stamens within the utricle 

 of Carex acuta, and Gay is stated by Moquin (' El. Ter. 



Fig. 102. Flower of Fuchsia in which the calyx was leafy, the petals 

 normal (reflexed in the figure), the stamens partially converted into 

 ovaries, th^ ordinary inferior ovary being absent. See Substitution. 



' See also Guillemin, ' Mem, Soc. Nat. Hist. Paris,' I, p. 16 ; herma- 

 phrodite flowefs in. Euphorbia esula. 

 * Prod. Flor. N. HoU.,' p. 2i2. 



