464 The Botanical Gazette. [December, 
is another bract, in whose axil is a flower, without bracts; the 
bract belonging to this set, which should be found just in front 
of the peduncle behind the total inflorescence, is aborted. 
Next follow two lateral bracts above the first pair, each con- 
taining a flower, but in different stages of development. The 
terminal bud of the flowering axis must be either one of 
these two buds or be obsolete. The median plane of the flow- 
ers is vertical. 
In the most complex case, the peduncles of Lespedeza repens 
T. & G., bear three or four alternating bracts, the successive 
ones more or less on opposite sides of the peduncle. Each of 
the bracts subtends an axis whose tip is aborted, but at whose 
base are a pair of lateral bracts, each subtending a flower. 
Consistent with this the apex of the peduncle is likewise aborted. 
Each flower pedicel bears a little below the calyx two bracts, 
and the median plane of the flower is vertical. ; 
In Rhynchosia tomentosa T. & G., the inflorescences consist 
of short racemes ifi the axils of the upper leaves or tripartite 
bracts representing the leaves, or they are terminal. Whether 
the apex of these various racemes is aborted or not is un- 
known. The pedicels are subtended by bracts, but do not 
bear any themselves, and the median plane of the flowers 1S 
vertical. The ordinary plants bear leaves made up of these 
leaflets, but in the variety monophylla there is only one leaf- 
let, though this shows its compound character by a joint near 
the upper end of the petiole, bearing the usual two minute 
scales. : 
Cassia obtusifolia L. has axillary racemes, of which the 
apex is aborted, and the members are confined to two oppo- 
site bracts near the base, subtending flowering pedicels. The 
latter, at their base, show each a small bract towards the 
front, the corresponding bract towards the rear against me 
stem being aborted, though a trace may sometimes be wie 
in the form of hairy, horizontal lines. The median plane 5 
the flower is vertical. A superposed bud occurs in the ax! 
of many of the leaves, otherwise bearing the flowering axis. 
Cassia Chamecrista L. has axillary racemes, which are 
adnate, for a short distance above the axils, to the er 
The different flowering pedicels are subtended by bracts, an 
a little below the calyx are two bracts which, however, are diS~ 
tant from each other. . 
The above descriptions may suffice to show that the struc- 
