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V. Branch with a stout lateral branch. The inflorescences of 
both are for the greater part naked or covered with bracts and 
indications of flowers. The upper part of the branch produces 
short spikes with bracts or lengthened stems with deaf pods. 
The similarity with D. gangeticum consists in the production 
of pods without seeds with this difference, however, that in 
polycarpum the normal shape is attained whereas in gangeticum 
the usual articulation is lost. For the rest polycarpum is cha- 
racterized by a strong atrophy of the flowers and fasciation, 
gangeticum on the contrary by hypertrophy of the calyx. 
Abrus pulchellus Wall. 
Legit C. A. Backer, Bandjar, Java, December 1910. 
The inflorescence transforms to a long leafy twig (fig. 47). 
Acacia decurrens Willd. 
Legit A. ae Tjinjiroean, Bandoeng, October 1915. 
Flowers which do not open notwithstanding the perfectly 
normal appearance of the inflorescence. The accompanying spe- 
cimens are with open flowers. 
Clitoria Ternatea L. 
Cult. in horto Dr. J. J. Smira 1915—1918. 
Pelory. Hereditary variety (fig. 48). 
Of the three flowers at my disposal only one showed the 
already known ') peloric deviation with perfect distinctness (vexil- 
lar pelory). The five widely grown out petals were of about 
the same size, only the nerves of the alae were a little stouter. 
Petals free, imbricative and almost sessile. Stamens free, filaments 
filiform of unequal length. In one of the flowers the majority 
of the stamens were petaloid. 
Pistil normal, stipes somewhat longer than sagpested by Mi- 
quel *), stigma hardly ,capitatum”. 
1) Penzia I, p. 400 and Worsdell II, p. 148. 
2) Flora van Ned. Indié I, p. 225. 
