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the elements one finds nothing but scales or bracts. No indication 
of floral parts. The whole calls vividly to mind the figure of 
Dianthus barbatus (fig. 206) and still stronger fig. 207 both of 
Masters (Germ. transl.). In our ,studies’ we described cases of 
bracteomania with Telanthera praelonga and Desmodium poly- 
carpum. It is very surprising that in the place of curved pods 
springing from a simple peduncle innumerable bracts densely 
cover a repeatedly ramified branch. If unaware of its origin no 
botanist would be able to even guess the affinity of such a 
production. 
Glycine Soja Bth. 
Culta in Java. Legit J. C. v. p. M.M., July 1920, Palimanan, 
Cheribon. | : 
_ Flowers axillary, several together (racemi axillares acc. to 
Miquet), short peduncled. Pods long and densely haired, with 
one or two defective seeds, or none. Calyx which is normally sub- 
bilabiatus (posticum bifidum, anticum tripartitum) goes through 
all degrees of dialysis to ordinary, though small leaves. Corolla 
virescent passing also to leaves, sessile or stalked. Stamens decreas- 
ing in number and finally disappearing. In many cases torus 
lengthening and bearing near the top either a withered unripe 
pod or a foliage leaf (simple or compound). In a few flowers the 
torus ends in a small leaf-rosette (terminal foliar prolification). 
In several cases there springs from the axil of one or more 
of the transformed sepals one, two or three short stalked vires- 
cent flowers causing the impression of a peduncle producing two 
or three (altered) flowers. The real cause in axillary prolification. 
Desmodium sp. 
Legit J. C. v. v. M. M., October 1920, Palimanan, Cheribon. 
Leaf with stunted midrib and top notched. 
Desmodium gangeticum D. C. 
Legit J. G. B. Beom#e, Tegal, Java, Sept. 1919. 
The inflorescence produces a new set of flowers after the 
ripening of the pods: floral prolification of the inflorescence. 
