292 NOTES ON PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO SYDNEY, 



No. 6. — The stamens perfect ; all quite erect but three, most of 

 those erect, open. The three stamens not erect, are bent down 

 inside the cup, so that the anthers are below the stigma. The 

 anthers of these are also open, and there is a considerable amount 

 of pollen in the cup ; but none on the stigma. Style two lines 

 high. Stigma broad and peltate, but not mature. 



No. 7. — Stamens all reflexed but two, i.e., bent outwardly from 

 the flower ; and many of the anthers empty ; those not reflexed 

 are so bent down that the anthers are below the stigma. Style 

 exceeding two lines high. Stigma mature and viscid. No pollen 

 either in cup or on the stigma. 



No. 8. — Stamens all reflexed, most of them withered ; those still 

 perfect have the anthers quite open, and exposing the ripe pollen. 

 None of this pollen can possibly fall on the stigma. Still there is 

 pollen upon the stigma, which is large, mature and very viscid. 



No. 9. — Stamens all reflexed, most of them spreading out across 

 the petals and away from the centre of the flower ; many of them 

 withered. Anthers all empty but one. Style three lines high. 

 Stigma broadly peltate and very viscid. Some pollen in the cup, 

 and a few grains on the stigma. 



In addition to these, I found, after carefully searching another 

 plant, three flowers which I considered required careful Avatching. 

 In one of them, five of the stamens with fully ripe pollen, were 

 bent so directly over the stigma, which was also near maturity, as 

 to lead me to expect a case of self-fertilization. In another flower 

 one stamen was left, not only not reflexed ; but with the anther 

 burst and pressing upon the fully mature and viscid stigma. In a 

 third flower, seven of the stamens, with the anthers fully mature, 

 but not open, impended directly over the stigma, which was mature 

 and viscid. These three flowers I marked A, B and C, by my 

 usual plan of attaching very small tin labels to them. In A, 

 having five stamens, with the anthers fully mature, bent over the 

 nearly mature stigma ; I found, on the second day, that two of the 

 stamens had become reflexed ; and were hanging with others over 

 the outside of the flower. The remaining three were bent down 

 inside the flower, so that the anthers were below the stigma and 





