WAYFARING NOTES IN RHODESIA 83 
great luxuriance. This species appears to secrete no honey, the 
glands being reduced to scales. The bright yellow pollen is con- 
spicuous against the dark Burgundy-red colour of the flowers, 
which are crowded into close glomerular bunches. After fertili- 
atio e 
increase greatly in thickness. e berry is quite grape-like in 
appearance, not ovoid and pointed as in the erect species noted 
abo 
Local Note.—A crowded inflorescence is often followed by a 
ted fruit 
llo 
or by a berry. In ie the ripening of cortain ‘aaigende 
fruits, as to whose identity one may be in doubt, it is not always 
its contained seed a 3 master: fapala may have to meet a different 
set of Rondieane altogether. The requirements of flower and fruit 
have to be reconciled in the type of inflorescence availed of 
Sometimes, as in the above example, the different conditions are 
met by a growth of the axis of sat uangined wy celaerenpie: 
Where flower and fruit are anemophilou 
conditions are at their simplest. An éntomophiloud flower followed 
by a capsular or by a zoophilous fruit requires a nice adjustment 
in the type of inflorescence which is to serve for both. 
As regards the dry type of fruit, as seen in the capsule and its 
kind, and the fleshy type, as seen in the berry, a notable point of 
difference lies in the fact that the capsule is a protective casket 
for seeds which have an individuality of their own, and which, 
lope. For them there are no independent excursions. 
of the berry is theirs, and, doubtless, comes best in the shape of 
a bird. 
TriuMFeTTA Wetwitscat Masters. No. 1341. Fruit only. 
At first sight this ree to be a burr-fruit, but the hairs are not 
hooked and it does not cling. It is doubtless vit distributed, as 
the fluff-like balls ‘a readily before the win 
Note:—It would seem useful, for purposes ‘of brief description, 
to extend the term anemo hilous to such fruits as depend upon 
* [Ampelocissus obtusata Planch., new to Rhodesia.—E. G. re 
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