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flower proper has quite disappeared, its place being occupied by 
stalks covered with bracts and hardly recognizable buds. The 
majority of these buds are placed in threes which renders it 
obvious that they are the outcome of axillary (foliar) prolification 
the terminal floral prolification being exhausted, most probably 
in default of organic material. 
The same plant — but another specimen — shows a second 
series of transformations of which the first indication is to be 
found in a flower apparently little disturbed. In this case (fig. 7) 
the calyx is almost split up to the base but the lips themselves 
are only two-three toothed instead of bi- and trifid'). The corolla 
is green instead of yellow and consists of tortuously vaulted 
petals and a carina partly or completely split up into its elements: 
Stamens of different sizes, not grown together. Although the 
flower is perfectly fresh, the pistil is grown out to a long stret- 
ched pod containing only indications of ovules. Just as in our 
former case the pod is borne by a lengthened torus. Also a 
bud (b) is present preparing terminal prolification. Axillary buds 
both subtended by petals and stamens are present. 
When examining the younger flowers higher up we see that 
the disturbance affects them to an increasingly higher degree, 
for 1° it are the sepals which lengthen and become isolated and 
finally grow out to a strong whorl of leaves. The petals, though 
present, wither, the stamens fall off but on their innerside axil- 
lary buds develop to leafy branchlets, the pod persists (quite 
dried up) in crowning the gynophore, whether as such or as a 
simple leaf. 
When further ascending along the flowerstalk we once more 
find the whorl of transformed sepals, a corolla of only two 
faded petals and next a dozen or so of leafy branchlets (size 
from a few m.m. to 24¢.m.). And at the top of the gynophore 
we see instead of the simple carpel a quite unexspected capi- 
tulum, consisting of many branchlets with trifoliolate leaves. 
The little leaves make — on account of extreme narrowness 
and dense haircoyering — the impression of moss. 
1) Miquet, lc. p. 320. 
