Summary.1Stems ofLyginodendronoccasionally branch, and in each case observed the branching is axillary.2Primary, secondary, and tertiary ramification occurs in one of the two specimens investigated.3In the two specimens examined the direction of the phyllotaxis spiral of a branch is always the reverse of that of the axis on which it occurs.4The giving‐off of branches from an axis seems to disturb the phyllotaxis considerably, the normal divergence of ⅖ being lost in the appenda