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and wetting its wings is unable to use them. It is equally unable to crawl 
up the slippery sides, and thus it has to find an exit by means of a narrow 
opening between the lobes of the lip and the apex of the column, in doing 
which it carries off the pollinia on its back, to be in turn left upon the 
stigma of the next flower visited. 
Rodway subsequently had another good opportunity of observing the 
wonderful contrivances by which the flowers are fertilised. At seven 
o’clock the flowers were a trifle loose; at 8.30 the bees were seen round the 
fully-opened flowers, and an hour later every pollen mass must have been 
carried away. At the latter period from six to eight bees were continually 
Fig. 24. CORYANTHES MACULATA VAR. VITRINA. 
hovering round, crawling under the dome-like appendage above the cup, 
and dropping into the trap below. Their green and gold bodies flashed in 
the light as they buzzed round, and on one of them a pair of eects masses 
showed conspicuously against the metallic green back. 
Crueger pointed out that the attraction is some cellular tissue situated 
under the hood of the flower that the bees gnaw off, and he has seen them 
disputing with each other for a place on the lip and falling into the bucket 
beneath. Undeterred by its involuntary bath, the bee returns again to the 
feast, to be again precipated into the bucket. And he adds: ‘“ Sometimes 
there are so many of these humble bees assembled that there is a continual 
procession of them through the passage specified.” It would be interesting 
to secure a photograph showing the bees at work, but a friend in Trinidad 
