APOCYNACE^ — GENTIANACE.E 



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Bees and some flies, especially Bombylius discolor, are 

 frequent visitors. 



Fig. 184. 

 Flower 



after the 



Fig. 186. 

 removal of 



the 



Fig. 186. 

 front part of the 



Fig. 184. — Vhica minor. 

 corolla, X 2. 



Pig. 185.— Pistil, x 3. 



Fig. 186.— Stamen. x 3. 



«, ovary ; b, yellow honey-gland ; c, style ; d, stamens bent in the form of a 

 knee ; d, anther opening towards the inside ; g, flat plate at the summit of the 

 style supplied with sticky stuff round the edge, and whose under edge acts as 

 stigma ; h, hairy connective of anther ; k, the trash of hair which sits on the top 

 of the style, and receives the pollen which comes out of the anthers ; ^, pollen. 



V. major. — The structure of the flower agrees with 

 that of V. minor; but the tube is 15-16 mm. long, and 

 it requires a proboscis 11 mm. in length to reach the 

 honey. ^ 



GENTIANACEiE 



The leaves are opposite. Chlora and Erythrsea have 

 quadrangular stems, as also have some Gentians. 



1 See Baillon, Bull. Soc. Linn., Paris, 1882. 



