198 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
The Asclepiads call for special mention. As each week goes by 
Ss appear. I have thought that a few memoranda of 
_ 4n.the Periplocoidee the spoon-like translator, destined, by 
means of its sticky disc, to attach itself to the head of an insect, 
goes with a relatively simpler structure of the flower. In the 
Asclépiadee the forceps-like translator, destined to attach itself to 
the leg of an insect, clasping it as in a vice, goes with a widely 
differing structure of the flower, altered to meet the different 
mechanism involved. 
faphionaeme divaricata Harv. (861).--First found growin 
which quickly withers. Anthers and style are not fused into 
column as in the Asclepiadee, but the two styles swell into a globose 
head, around which the anthers lie side by side in a ring, their tips 
recalling a 
shoe-horn. The handle lies below, and is tipped at its lower end 
by the sticky dise. 
Raphionaeme Galpini Schlecht. (711).—The corolla is green. 
The cuculli are flattish ; above th 
purel stylar fercen sce ee: a They form a single —_ 
i hoc, e stigmatic surfac s to be a 
the apex of the stylar head. urface appears 
Coming to the Asclepiadez, where the mechanism is of so 
