DIRECTION. 207 
pany various deviations from the ordinary form and 
arrangement of parts. 
In cases where an habitually irregular flower becomes 
regular, the change in form is frequently associated 
with an alteration in direction both of the flower as a 
whole and, to a greater or less extent, of its indi- 
vidual members, for instance of Gloxinia, the normal 
flowers of which are irregular and pendent, there is 
now in common cultiy ation a peloriate race in which 
the flowers are regular in form and erect in position. 

Fie. 108.—Flower of normal Gloxinia. 




Fig. 109.—Flower of Glowinia, erect and regular (regular Peloria). 
Fig. 108 shows the usual irregular form of Glovinia, 
with which may be contrasted figs. 109, 110 and 111. 
