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drophore) bearing both the androecium and gyn- 

 oecium; in kanak-champa or mooch-kunda {Ptero- 

 spermum acerifolium) a stalk (gynophore) between 

 the androecium and the pistil; in Capparis sepiaria 

 a stalk (gynophore) bearing the pistil (fig. 75). Such 

 stalks are nothing more than internodes, and are 

 homologous with them. The occasional development 



Fig. 75. — Kanta-gur-kamal 

 {Capparts sepiaria) 



o. Ovary, g, Gynophore. 



Fig. 76.— Shalook {Nympjusa) 

 — acyclic flower with spirally- 

 inserted floral leaves 



a, Scars of stamens and peri- 

 anth removed. 5, Stamen, c, 

 Perianth leaf. 



of such internodes in flowers thus bears out the' 

 homology of flowers with shoots. 



Again, we have learned that leaves are arranged on 

 the axis of a shoot either spirally or in whorls. If the 

 floral leaves are examined, they are also found in- 

 serted on the thalamus either spirally or in whorls, 

 like the foliage leaves. For example, if we examine 

 the flowers of nag-phani, shalook or shafla (fig. 76), 

 and padma or Lotus we find that the sepals, petals, 

 and stamens are arranged spirally on the thalamus;, 

 and we have found that in kantali-champa they are' 



