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Morina persica, Linn. The mechanism is described in this 
Journal, 1906, »PB. 522-523. The visitors which fertilise the flowers 
are Sphingi 
Oldenlandia gracilis, Hook. 7. The grey-yellow 4-merous 
) 8. 
after the opening of the flower. Pollen apparently falls onto the 
stigma. During flowering the style grows from being 3 to 7 mm. 
in length ; the stigmas are 15 mm. 
Randia tetrasperma, Benth, et Hook. f. The greenish-white 
flowers contain a fair quantity of honey in a tube which is 
10 mm. deep and 5 mm. wide at the mouth. The corolla lobes are 
sharply bent back so that they do not serve as an ed stage. 
The four stamens project at the edge of the cup and the stigma 
stands well above it. Pollen is shed in the bud some little time 
proterandrous flower. Later, the stigmatic lobes separate a very 
little. Visitors were not seen, though a look-out was kept for 
them both in 1906 and in 1907. 
Wendlandia exserta, D.C. Visitors. HYMENOPTERA. 
Apidae. (1) Apis indica, Fabr. COLEOPTERA. (2) A 
small brown beetle very abundant. Both at 2,500 ft., 11-yv-07. 
ernonia eros Less. The tube is 4 mm. long. Visitors. 
HYMENOPTERA Apidae. (1) Megachile?. LEPIDOP- 
TERA. Rhopalocera. (2) Lycena sp. Both at 3,500 ft., 
16 v-06. 
Aster molliusculus, Wall. Visitor. LEPIDOPTERA. 
Heterocera. (1) = one sp., sh., 7,000 ft., 17-v-06. 
Erigeron multicaulis, Wall. Visitors. LEPIDOPTERA. 
H rocera (1) Pureris Gide F. Moore. (2) Lycena sp. 
Both at 7,000 ft., 10-v-06. 
naphalium leontopodium, Linn. DIPTERA. Antho- 
myiidae. (1) One species to 2 flowers, 8,000 ft., 28-iv-07. 
Gerbera lanuginosa, Benth. The tube is 9 mm. long. 
bess HYMENOPTERA. Apidae. (1) Xylocopa sp., 
very apa yo 4 6,000 ft., 1l-v-07. (2) Halzctus sp., sm 
Igy. 06, 9-v-07, 3,000 ft. " LEPIDOPT TERA. Rhopaloce 
(3) Pieris soracta, F. Moore, sh., 5,000 ft., 20-v- oe? (4) Ypthima 
sp., sh., 5,000 ft., 22-v-06, 
Galinsoga parviflora, Cav. Every flower sets fruit at 
7,000—8,000 ft. 
