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directions, on each of these branches we distinguish a) a naked 
portion, 6) a portion from which springs the normal number 
of 2 flowers, c) a longer portion covered with o flowers. The 
branches are on the whole somewhat thicker than ordinarily 
and the whole on account of bends and curves of an irregular _ 
shape. The most striking thing, however, is the prolification of 
several Q flowers thus giving birth to a leafy branch. In one 
of the flowers we found a somewhat lengthened thalamus with 
lateral branchlets (lateral foliar prolification). 
As an additional peculiarity Mr. Dens writes that. this singular 
tree is very old (100 years!2) and is said never to have 
produced any flowers'). The latter assertion seems hardly 
admissible. ; 
d) Legit E. Jacossoy, Fort de Kock, Sumatra. 
Nut two-celled (Fig. 32). 
~ In our ,studies” of 1915 we gave a figure of a two-celled 
Cocoa-nut with one seed in each of the cells. Presently we give 
another because now the cells are equally large (a). Two of the 
black spots show a beginning germination proving that there 
is no question of polyembryony in this case (0). 
e) Legit H. A. B. Biwnemeyer, Isle of N angka near Banka, 1917. 
One-celled nut. From one of the black (germinating) spots 
there emerge 4 sprouts, each showing its own cotyle. No ques- 
tion of branching. : ix 
Consequently we have here to do with a true case of poly- 
embryony. 
Mr. Swira is. thoroughly convinced that the Cocoa-nut with 
three cohering stems, which we described in 1915, is after all 
a similar case of polyembryony with this difference only that 
the embryos of 1915 coalesced whereas in the present case they 
have maintained their full independance. 
J) Sent by J. G. H. pe Vooer. 
Legit? Serangdjaja, Tamiang, Sumatra 1919. 
- Seedless nut, length 29 c.M., diameter on the middle 12 cM. 
_ Fibrous pericarp of 5.5 ¢.M. thickness, endocarp stone-hard as 
1) Sarr in Teysmannia 1919, p. 295. 
