outer half; the strip along the i 
Piuarter 6 g the inner half of the pet 
cae te is igs of the floral leaf is pain ad ees 
fits floral leaf is ut the quarter strip on the inner ed 
es. eh ne again colored and veined like a a 
. hag these two floral envelopes, petals in Abe: 
their inner slice ecko ie show sepal character along 
a quaternate plan. ere the other pair of sepals should be on 
© compl 
Date Bc chick: —— that third floral envelope on a 
ters, both in col ating: be a sepal, shows all the charac- 
between the ty or and venation, of a petal. Opposite to this 
Be ther Sia undoubted sepals is found the regular petal 
Te thos = complete the quaternate whorl, would 
Bick ahove e ee of the peculiar floral envelopes de- 
The Sele =) which are colored and veined like petals. 
of the purple S04 and anastomosing veins on the other side 
to the Bcccey ct can not destroy this analogy, but only add 
Be eistetire os the case. The tendency towards quater- 
by the colorin induced by the four leaves is therefore shown 
feturn to he Se venation of the floral envelopes, while the 
actual number s inary ternate structure is heralded by the 
ears of floral envelopes (6) produced. There are 
Ina ied and three styles. 
ird case, also found by Mr. Ed. Rynerson are found 
two leaves (fig. 2), followed by two 
other leaves; decussating with these 
are four sepals; almost decussating 
with those at thre 
petals, heralding t 
ternate type, and at the place where 
the fourth petal ought to be, two 
| stamens are found, attached by their 
: a. filaments below, of which that sta- 
Uatern men which should according to the 
ate plan be the fourth petal has a Sean neciiet 
flame 
n : 
Not counting this half of the compound stamen, 
three petals in 
the stamen there 
interpretation, if 
Id be no logical 
f the pres- 
on : 
explanation ms an ordinary stamen, there wou 
Ne of the s the sequence of the floral leaves, OF © 
35—V eventh stamen. . There-are three styles: 
ol, XIX.—No. 1. 
