48 THE PEANUT— THE UNPREDICTABLE LEGUME 



REPRODUCTIVE MORPHOLOGY 



Inflorescence 



Kurtz (41) described the inflorescences of the peanut as two to 

 three-flowered, occurring in the leaf axils, but Pettit (50) merely stated 



Figure 13. — A well-developed peanut inflorescence; b, bract (cataphyll) subtending 

 a floral branch; f, bract (cataphyll) subtending a flower; p. peg; t, terminal 

 bud of the inflorescence. An axillary floral branch arises at each node of the 

 zig-zag inflorescence axis. The cataphylls have the same relation to the axillary 

 branches of this subpaniculate inflorescence as leaves have to the lateral 

 branches of a vegetative shoot. 



