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grow smaller towards the top of the stem and even disappear 
its end is a raceme. The aberration of our specimen consists in 
the prolification of many of the heads; 
1° a secondary headlet appears at the top, 
2° in the same way two lateral headlets are given off, 
3° as many as 20 stalked items, 
4° a number of stalked headlets are produced under the chief head, 
5° both from the stalk and the head itself spring lateral heads.. 
A peculiar impression is made by a head from whose surface 
some 25 stalked headlets (2 ¢.m.) hang downward like an um- 
brella, producing moreover a series of pods like a fringe. The 
top of the primary head projects as the top of an umbrella. 
Finally we draw attention to the well known fact that the 
common receptacle bears very thin stalked membranaceous cups 
between the florets. These are what Miquen terms as ,bracteolae 
apice ovatae calycem subaequantes”’. 
Acacia spadicigera Cham. et Schl. 
Habitat America. Culta in horto bog. (branch-establishment 
Sibolangit (Sumatra). 7 
Legit J. A. Lorzinc, November 1917. 
Spike in many cases double. The figure (10) shows that they 
represent cases of forking. (See E:cuir: Bliithendiagramme Ly 
p. 525. 3 
| Parkia speciosa Hassk. 
Legit R. C. Baknoizen VAN DEN Brink, Java Leuwiliang, June 1921, 
The clublike portion of the peduncle which bears the flowers 
more or less forked. 
id. id, 
Legit J. C. v. p. M. M., Palimanan, Nov. 1920. 
The long stipes inflorescentiae flattened, the flowerbearing 
top forked thus producing two equal clubshaped spadices of 
6 cm. length. 
Cynometra cauliflora 
Legit J. C. v. p. M. M., Palimanan, Nov. 1920. 
The two leaflets of the only pair grown together (Fig. 11). 
