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spadix in itself, does not reveal new aspects, we deemed it 
unnecessary to have it drawn and reproduced. 
LILIACEAE. 
Gloriosa Planti Loud. 
Habitat tropical Africa. 
Coll. J. J. Smith in horto bogor. 
Mr. Smith found at the top of a stem four flowers which he 
describes as being proliferous but which according to my im- 
pression present cases of apostasis together with augmentation. 
(fig. 15). 
The normal flowers, axillary and long peduncled, show the 
structure of the ordinary Liliacea: sepals and petals not much 
different, both undulate, the basal portion light green, the upper 
red. Style strongly bent at its base and at more than right 
angles with the ovary. 
The abnormal flowers show additional sepals of a light green 
colour, sometimes mixed with red, springing at different heights 
from the peduncle but always under the flower proper. It 
appears from the latter circumstance that this deviation is not 
to be classed with prolification but with cases of apostasis and 
augmentation of organs. 
The details of the case are: 
Ist Flower. Two perianth-leaves under the flower, resp. at 
distances of 25 and 23 m.M., but connected with it by pro- 
jecting ridges. The flower is almost tetramerous, one ot the 
sepals wanting or — what is much more admissible, slipped 
down along the peduncle and being one of the two extra petals 
just indicated. 
The parts of the flower proper show a strong tendency towards 
displacement in vertical direction, as appears also from the course 
of the vascular bundles examined in microscopic preparations. 
24 Flower. Five additional sepals at distances of resp. 55, 28, 
26, 21 and 16 m.M. from the flower. Two of these connected 
with the flower by means of broadened ridges. Flower perfectly 
