40. Notes on the Pollination of Colocasia Antiquorum. 
By Mauve L. CLEa@Hory. 
(With Plate XVII.) 
grows all the year round, but flowers only in the rainy season 
from July to September. It is a near relation of the familiar 
a spadix which is almost completely enclosed in a long narrow 
yellow spathe. The spadix is much shorter than the spathe 
and consists of four distinct parts :— 
(i) An upper smooth pointed portion about an inch or 
two in length which bears no flowers, called the 
pores. Each pair of minute openings, with the 
lobes on either side of it, really represent the top of 
one of the sessile anthers which make up the 
synandrium. 
(iii) A slender middle portion, about an inch long, and 
corresponding in height to the constricted part of the 
spathe, composed of a few elongated and irregularly 
shaped bodies—-rudimentary flowers. 
(iv) The lowest part of the spadix which is rather thick 
and about an inch and a half long is enclosed in the 
green colou 
flowers. Each pistillate flower consists of three 
united carpels forming a one-celled ovary and a 
