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having a length of about 2.5 ¢.M. and a width of 1 ¢.M., the 
abnormal one is entirely without joints and has dimensions of 
1.5 cM. and 3.5 m.m. Their length is, to be sure, smaller but 
the capacity considerably greater (Fig. 45). 
Seeds were, indeed, not to be found, nor in the flower 
stamens and corolla. This latter peculiarity agrees with Unger’s 
statement as to D. marylandicum about atrophic petals and 
stamens. 
6) Legit J. G. B. Breuméz, Ngawen, Java, May 1917. 
A great number of flowers failed, but the twelve developed 
flowers show hypertrophy of the calyx and seedless pods. No 
corolla, no stamens. The tact that in the seedless pods the 
suture is situated on the broad side, deserves attention (Fig. 46). 
Desmodium polycarpum DC. 
Sent by Ca. Bernarp, Tjigaroe, Java, February 1918. 
Branch with leaves and inflorescences (axillares et terminales, 
Miquel I, p. 242). 
The top of the branch bifurcates after a feeble fasciation 
into two inflorescences which themselves strongly fasciate and 
broaden (several specimens). 
Two of the inflorescences show complete bracteomania. 
Il. Lateral inflorescences externally show nothing but bracts, 
flowers completely suppressed (bracteomania). The terminal 
raceme along 5.M. covered with normal pods but owing to the 
absence of seeds quite flat. Above these seedless pods the axis 
lengthens to a fasciated portion of 24 ¢.M. which bifurcates to 
two strongly fasciated inflorescences having the appearance of 
headlets but which bear nothing but bracts. 
III. Lateral inflorescences long stalked, as long as 3} c.M. On 
the stalk here and there a leaf and a few bracts with indica- _ 
tions of flowers. 3 : 
On the higher portion of the stem the inflorescences are sessile 
bearing nothing but bracts. The top is covered over a length of 
8 ¢.M. with deaf pods and terminates in a headlet of bracts as in II. 
IV. Chiefly as in III, top fasciates before terminating in a 
headlike inflorescence. 
