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branches connected with one another at their base, of which 
the smallest are dried up and the third bears in the axil of its 
24 bract a fruit and is dried up at top. 
The second node produces two very unequal branches slightly 
-cohering and of which the smaller is dry whereas the larger 
consists of 16 internodes with a young fruit on 8 and 4, The 
3d, 4th, 5th and 6th nodes have weaker branches, but numbers 
7—19 want them altogether. 
Only 15 and 16 show normal hands and the rest does not 
want any explanation. 
The development of the terminal bud is not sufficiently advanced 
to give a guess at the final production. But there is no doubt 
that it is the initial stage of floral prolification of the inflorescence. 
The most ‘curious fact that a hand may consist of one finger 
only as shown in a photo of Mr. J. Oosrensroxk, Buitenzorg, 
which we are sorry not to have reproduced owing to the enorm- 
ous quantity of photos at our disposal. 
BROMELIACEAE. 
} Ananas sativus Schult. 
Legit W. M. van Herren, Nov. 1919, Lampong. 
Fasciation of the inflorescence. The number of leafrosettes is 
immense. We got the impression of them as placed on two rows 
but in fact it may be a single row of which the rosettes being 
densely crammed have pushed one another aside. The width of 
the whole, in dried state, amounts to 2.4 d.m., the height to 
9.5 e.m., the thickness to 5.5 ¢.m. Apart from the stronger 
dimensions the case agrees with that we have mentioned in a 
former paper '). 
An example of both fasciation and ramification has been des- 
cribed in 1921 ') and of ramification only, in 1911 2). 
IRIDACEAE. 
Eleutherine americana, Fig. 22. 
Culta in horto J. J. Smiru, Oct. 1920. 
Collateral splitting of stamens and pistils. 
4) Vol. XXXII, p. 23. 9) Vol. IX, p. 98. 
