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Another peculiarity consists in a strong lengthening of the 
torus to a stalk of 4—]4—2 ¢.M., which elevates the headlet 
of the drupes. The same phenomenon has, according to Prnzie, 
been observed in R.° scaber. 
We would here call to mind the common raspberry, R. Idaeus, 
of which a variety in cultivated in the University gardens of 
Utrecht and in which the thalamus extends to a length of about 
4 ¢.M., wholly covered with pistils whether closed or expanded 
to leaflets of different width. Some of pete thalami fasciate 
and even bifurcate. 
Our figure (44) represents a small part of the inflorescence 
of R. moluccanus. 
Rosa hybrida. 
Legit H. Zvypernovpr Probolinggo, December 1917. 
Directly above the stamens follows a flower consisting of 
calyx, corolla, stamens and pistils, In the primary flower the petals 
seems to have wanted. Floral median prolification. 
LEGUMINOSAE. 
Desmodium gangeticum DC. 
a) Legit J. G. B. Beuméz, Wilis, Java, April 1918. 
Unger has, as early as 1848, written on erratic flowers of 
D. marylandicum DC., in which the peculiarity consisted in 
hypertrophy of calyx and pistil together with atrophic petals 
and stamens '). 
The specimens sent by Mr. Bzumsx deserve no less attention. 
While in normal growth the calyx splits up into narrow pointed 
lobes, 3 m.m. long, these lobes have in the abnormal specimens 
a length of 10—12 m.m. and a width of 4—5 mm. Conse- 
quently the calyx is hypertrophic. 3 
The fruit behaves still more peculiarly: the pod in normal 
circumstances consisting of 6—8 articulations (legumen 6—8 
articulatum, articulis semi-orbicularibus, Miquel I, p. 347) and 
1) Penzia I, p. 396. 
