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happen not long after opening. Galinsoga sets seed at Sim 
every. flower apparently by self-fertilisation. (no ete rosea 
is eagtiaietly self-pollinated, being imperfectly proterandrou 
Below the level of Simla which is 7 000 feet, Apis indica occurs 
as abundantly as above it; butthe common spring Bombu mbus 
heemorrhoidalis and not B, tunicatus. B. hxemorrhoidalis is Faieacaiil 
ly greatly given to biting corolla-tubes in order to steal the honey. 
It has been seen by me constanly biting the tube of Scutellaria 
ae and to bite the tube of Morinz persica. e corolla- 
e of Salvia lanata, the calyx of Woodfordia flor sbunda, and the 
bite of Delphinium ‘denudatum were also found bitten. This bee 
works long hours, ¢.e., from before sunrise until sunset. 
t low levels Anthophora cincta and two species i Xylocopa 
were met with, and as well Apis florea and Apis dorsat 
Cool, evergreen forests disappear a little below the level of 
Simla, although, from ridges 6,000 feet high, down sheltered nor- 
thern slopes, ria hes of Pinus longifolia, Roxb., may extend 
to about 4,000 fe When they are absent, we get on the slopes 
where the dew hes longest the serub-thickets of the hills, wherein 
mea viscosa ; and occasionally in ii Rosa moschata is very plenti- 
lowers. 
the lower levels the vegetation shows in oy and ea 
signs a both a reawakening and of a sinking to rest: of a 
ae in the fresh leaves and flowe ers on trees ‘of Diospyros 
florescences carry muc ri or este ripe seed. So o the nda 
below the level of 6,000 feet. Where neither of these words occu 
Mii age: ae seen in flower both distinctly above and distinctly 
ow 6,000 
PENDENT FLOWERS. 
Bell with a long tube above, 100—110 mm. long (Class F.) 
Datura Metel, Linn. (below). 
Regular narrow-tubed flowers, 10—15 mm. deep (Class F.) 
Silene inflata, Smith. 
Regular narrow-tubed flowers, 10—15 mm. deep (Class H.) 
tburnum feetens, Decne. (above). 
