242 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XII, 



The smell of the flowers is peculiar. In Calcutta (3-ix-Ol) 

 an individual Anthophora zonata, L., was seen to settle on the an- 

 thers, to leave and return, to repeat this several times, and then 

 to run down the tube, but to dart from the flower immediately 

 in a great hurry as if the smell within forbade nearer approach. 



/ 



Datura Stramonium, Linn., opens at the same time as D. 



fastuosa (Belgaum, 13-xi-08). 



/ 



X 



3 



Fig. 3.— Flower of Cle- 

 rodendron in/or iunatum 

 irom above. Nat. size. 



Fig. 4. — Nos. 1-4 indicate successive stages 

 in the movement of the style: in the just- 

 opening bud it is as in No. 1 ; then it moves 

 through Nos. 2 and 3 to 4. In the just-open- 

 ing bud, the stamens are as No. 5 ; then they 

 move to stand as in No 4. Nat. size. 



Clerodendron infortunatum, Gaertn., begins to open its 

 flowers at 7 p.m.; and the process continues into the night. 

 It too has flowers open by day, for their duration is 36 hours 

 or more. Before the corolla-lobes part, the filaments and style 



The American Datura arborea, Linn., seems to obtain no suitable 



Visits in noi-fa ^f 4.U* t>_ _^r? _ /-* i , , .^ _ . -D^i. 



inn. Soc, xJot., 



J 1D Ja arta ° f • the Pacific : Crosby recorded ( Journ. Li 



9 P. 49) that it T\P>Vfxr frnifa i*i 4-Vit* "EV^^^IK, T«l. 1 -. * 



rm *\ I that lfc never fruits in the Friendly Islands, and Hillebrand 

 S d-°h Ti Hawaiian Isl ands, 1888, p. 311) that it rarely fruits in the 



Sandwich 



