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tains any nectar. The column, embraced by the labellum, is 

 massive, expanding into a stigma eleven millimetres broad, 

 secreting an abundance of viscid matter, crowned with the 

 anther and its pollen^ whose caudicles, composed of pollen 



FIG. 1.— rn^jvs Bi.r^iET, showing an- 

 ther WITH POIiMKIA KEMOVED: 

 C, &TIG3IA ; r, BASE OF ANTHEKJ 

 G, ROcTELlA'^r, 



[The foUoiving figures are ctU slnjlithj 

 diagrammatic.'] 



FIG. 2.— PHAJUS 



SHO"WI^'G THE 



rOLLlXIA AVALAXCHED POWX- 

 ■\YAItDS, CAURYING 'WITH THEM THE 

 ROSTELLUM, G; A, ANTHER-CAP; Ej 

 SWOLLEN POLLTNIA ; C, STIGMA ; 

 E, TIP OF CAEDICLES OF I^OLLTNIA. 



grains, protrude their tips from beneath the anther-cap. I exa- 

 mined more than one hundred and fifty flowers of P. Bliimei, 

 but I did not find one that was not, or could be otherwise than, 

 self-fortilised. Its essential organs exist in two forms, slightly 

 but interestingly different. 



FIG. 3. — BED OF PHAJUS BLUMEI, SHO\V- 

 ISG FOLLINIA IN ERECT POalTION ; 

 A, ANTHER-CAP ; B, POLLINIA ; C, 

 stigma; D, MEDIAN KIDGE. 



fig. 4. — longitudinal section of 

 column of phajus elumei (side 

 view); a, p, c, d, as in fig, 3; 

 i, boundarl of stigma, 



Flowers of the first form have, arching over the deep and 

 covered stigma, a well-developed tongue-shaped projection or 

 rostellum, on which lie the caudicles of the pollinia, which 

 have no viscid disk (Fig. 1). On each side, the rostellum 

 leaves hetween itself and the external walls of the column a 



