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a bearing on the fairy-tale notion of invisible caps 
and cloaks. 
Indian Names.—Among other things Mr. LLoypD 
made some enquiries into the meaning of certain names 
of places. He was informed that the village of Tara- 
nambo was so called from an extinét tribe called the 
Tarana, who are credited with having been giants, from 
which we may presume that they were very powerful at 
one time. Pirara means a spotted fish; Quimatta, 
place of Qui (Eta) palms; Warroche, a pigeon; and 
Maccouria, a small maam. 
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Coryanthes maculata.—We have lately had another 
good opportunity of observing the wonderful contri- 
vances by which the flowers of this orchid are fertilised. 
At seven o'clock in the morning the buds were a trifle 
loose and they must have opened about an hour later. 
At 8.30 the bees were seen round the fully-opened 
flowers, and an hour later every pollen mass had been 
carried away. At the latter period from six to eight 
bees were continually hovering round, crawling under 
the dome-like appendage above the cup and dropping 
into the trap below. Their green and gold bodies 
flashed in the light as they buzzed round; on one of 
them a pair of pollen masses between the shoulders 
showed conspicuously against the metallic green back. 
One that we watched go into the cup, turned itself 
round and round for a few seconds, and then, apparently 
seeing the light shining through the gap where the 
column approaches the lip, commenced to drag itself 
through the spring-like opening. The bottom of the cup 
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