28 AN ACCOUNT OF VELEZIA. 
_ Syn. V. rigida var. glabrata Regel, Descr. Plant. noy. rar: 
Fedtschenko, p. 13, ex Bull. Soc. Nat. Hist. Petersb. 1882. 
invariably produce unequal branches. The shorter branch is, as a 
rule, more inclined than the longer branch, and the latter always 
maintained in the whole length of the flowering stem and its 
branches. Thus proceeding from below upwards, note the relative 
position at the first bifurcation ; if the short branch is placed on the 
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this short branch is still further reduced, and then disappears 
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hg a growing axis different from that which precedes 
it and that which follows it, Vigorous specimens of the species 
furnish good examples of this interesting mode of branching of the 
flowering stems. They further afford as tisfactory explanation of 
the succession of flowers on the stem, which in the growing axis are 
alternate and solitary, thou sometimes in pairs, and near the top 
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