OF THE STAMENS. 955 
of being represented by the flat blade of a single leaf, 
had the appearance as if two such blades were present 
and coherent one with the other by their midribs, 
along their upper or inner surfaces, which were directed 
towards the centre of the flower (fig. 136), thus resem- 
bling the cases of adhesion of leaves by their surfaces 
already referred to (p. 33). In other cases, in the same 
plant, the anther appeared as if formed by two collateral 

Fig. 135.—Phylloid anther of Fic. 136.—Leaf-like anther of 
Jatropha, after Miller (Arg.). Jatropha Pohliana, after Miller. 
leaves, the faces looking towards the circumference of 
the flower, and their margins so folded together as 
to represent an open anther lobe (fig. 135). These 
cases are apparently due, not to the formation and 
adhesion of two leaves, but rather to the exuberant 
development of one leaf into two blades. The bear- 
ings of these and other similar malformations on the 
morphology of the anther are alluded to under the 
head of petalody of the anther. 
Phyllody of the stamens has been most often observed 
in the following plants : 
' Miiller (Argoy.), in ‘ Mém. Soc. Phys. et d’Hist. Nat. Genev.,’ t. xvii. 
