IN JAVA. 



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I have examined other species of the genus, and found them 

 to be fertilised in almost identically the same manner. 



A not uncommon orchid by the sides of second-growth 

 forest or banks of streams over all the Archipelago, is the 



FIG. 9.— SPATHOGLOTTIS PUCATA (FBOJIT 



view); a.anfber-cap; b,polunia; 

 c, cavdicles op pollinia ; d, 

 stigma ; e, front of oolcmx ; f, 

 tip op anther-oap; g, flap of 

 margin of stigma. 



— e, 



FIG. 10. — SPATHOGLOTTIS PLICATA (SIDE 

 view), when anther has ROTATED 

 DOWNWARDS ; A, C, E, F, G, AS IN 

 FIG. 9 ; H, BOSTELLirjI. 



white or purple terrestrial orchid Spathoglottis plicata, Bl., 

 whose method of fertilisation differs from that of the Phajus. 

 Its pollinia lie in a rather deep anther, which runs out into a 



11. — SPATHOGLOTTIS PLICATA, 



LONGITUDINAL SECTION (SIDE VIEW); 

 A, C, E, F, H, AS IN PREVIOUS 

 figure; B, POLLINIA. [DIAGRAM- 

 MATIC.] 



FIG. 12. — SPATHOGLOTTIS PLICATA. 



(frost view), WIIH the ANTHER 

 ROTATED DOWN OVER THE STIGMA; 

 letters same AS IN PREVIOUS 

 FIGURES. 



long sharp triangular rostellum far overarching the stigma 

 (Figs. 10, 11). The pollinia-caudicles, composed of pollen grains, 

 protrude from below the anther case and lie on the rostellum, 

 projecting a little beyond its tip, as seen in the lateral view of 



