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tetramerous. The peduncle is quite cylindrical, whereas in the 
former case it appeared flattened. 
34 Flower. Seven additional sepals irregularly spread over a 
distance of 80 m.M. of the peduncle. Sepals 4, petals 4, Stamens 7, 
carpels 3. Instead of a trifid style there is one bifid and one single. 
The base of one of the filaments is petaloid and so is te 
base of one of the thecae of the same anther. 
One of the sepals coheres with one of the adjacent petals. 
As the additional parts of the three flowers — apart from their 
incidental tetramery —are inserted under the perianth, there 
is no reason why this monstrosity should be classed with (median) 
prolification, because in prolification the first thing is a normal 
flower and the next a lengthened torus whereas in our case 
the flower is preceded by augmentation of parts. 
MUSACEAE. . 
Musa Sapientium L. 
Habitat The East Indies. 
Coll. J. J. Smith in horto bogor. 
Fig. 16 shows that the inflorescence was uncommonly leng- 
thened and produced by far more flowers than usual. The spadix 
proper was borne by a rachis 65 ¢.M. long, 4.7 ¢.M. thick and 
could be divided into four successive portions: 
1° One covered with five sisirs'), closely packed and bearing 
normal fruits, of which only the upper, pointing upwards, 
were unripe; 
2° one small part without flower or fruit, 15 m.M. long; 
3° one part of 26 c.M. length and 2 ¢.M. width, densely 
covered with numerous small bananas. Sisirs are undistinguish- 
able in this portion. One gets the impression of a subsequent 
fresh shoot having sprung with new energy from the preceding, 
the latter having evidently gone through a period of defective 
growth as appears from the sterile interpolated section. 
4° the top which lacks fruits altogether. The malayan gar- 
1) Sisir (engl. comb) is the malayan word for each peduncled set of bananas, 
in the West-Indies they call it «hand», 
