562 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 
CANDOLLEACE, 
Candollea (Stylidium) laricifolium, F.v.M.—The method of 
fertilisation in this species is much the same as that described for 
C. serrulata (4). It differs, however, in some minor points. There 
are some honey-glands in the interior of the calyx-tube, and the 
flowers are often half full of nectar. They are visited by hive- 
bees. When the flower first opens, the summit of the style is 
covered by the two anthers (Fig. 17), and on each side is a fringe 
of club-shaped hairs (Fig. 18). The anthers open and display the 
loose, dry pollen. When a bee visits the flower, it goes to the 
back, and when it inserts its proboscis it touches the irritable spot 
near the base of the style, and the latter flies over the gynoste- 
mium, striking the insect on the back of the thorax, or of the 
abdomen in small bees, depositing the pollen there. Ata later 
stage, the connective of the anthers grows downwards, so that 
they are no longer in position to touch an insect, and the stigma 
rapidly becomes papillose, slightly sticky, and mature. When 
reflexed by the irritation of a bee, it flies over, and becomes 
charged with the pollen on the insect. The flowers (Fig. 19) have 
not the corona on the petals which is present in C. serrulata. The 
metamorphosed petal which bends over the tube (Fig. 20) differs 
from that in the latter species. The plant blossoms in September, 
October, and November, and usually affects swampy situations, 
although the finest plants I have ever seen were on a dry talus at 
the foot of sandstone cliffs, at Cooyal, near Mudgee. 
In observing the visits of insects to this and many other plants, 
I was much struck by the number of hive-bees coming to it. In 
many other native plants also they do a very great deal of the 
work of fertilisation, and often drive away native insects. The 
manner in which native insects take to introduced plants, too, is 
worthy of observation. The hawk-moths, for example, continually 
resort to Lantana, Lonicera, and the citrus fruit trees, and in 
very large numbers, and many of the native Hymenoptera are 
regular visitants to garden flowers. 
EBENACEZ. 
Diospyros Cargillia, F.v.M.—This, though properly a dicecious 
plant, is one of those which show a transitional state between 
dicecious and hemaphrodite flowers, or vice versa. The males have 
16 anthers, and the ovulary is rudimentary, and acts on a honey- 
secreting gland. It is bright orange, and has no style or stigma. 
The females have 8 anthers, but they are imperfect and produce 
little or no pollen. In these, also, the surface of the ovulary 
secretes nectar freely. The flowers hang mouth downwards, and 
though not large, are very attractive to insects from their sweet 
