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the latter from different regious of Java. I also found twice a single fruit 

 in one of the numerous examined spikes in our cultures of this species. 



The pollinating-apparatus of an Eucurcuma has been rather correctly 

 described by H. 0. Forbes (1885, 247), with a good figure. 



This is composed in the following way: (see our fig. 8 on PI. II). 



As is described above each anther-cell is provided at its outer wall with 

 a right or curved spur of the lenght of '/a — '/a the whole anther, the 

 fleshy base of which forms the back wall of the cell. Besides the lower 

 margin of each cell bears a small tubercle at its base at the outer side. 



Just above the spur-base the anther is attached with its thick connective 

 to the narrowed top of the short filament which is traversed by three elastic 

 fibre-bundles passing into the connective; these allow the anther to rotate 

 on its point of attachment. 



In the quite opened flower the anther lies transversely on the filament) 

 face upward, and in such a way that the spurs are placed precisely in the 

 middle of the orifice of the corolla, while the upperpart of the anther with 

 the apex of the style (passing in the common way between both thecae, 

 so that the stigma protudes a little above the anthei) is hidden in a firm 

 "dome" formed by the folded staminodes of which the posterior half is 

 clasped by the hooded dorsal petal. No insect of a mediocre size can intrude 

 into the flower nor reach the stigma and anther without bumping its head 

 against the spurs and then immedialy afterwards its back against the lateral 

 tubercles of the thecae. A middle-sized bee doing so moves the lever and 

 the entire face of the anther with the stigma are pressed firmly against the 

 back of the insect. The cells being very shallow the coherent pollen forms 

 a flat strap covered with a thin layer of mucilage. As soon as the bee, 

 which has entered deeply into the flower, withdraws, the anther returns in 

 its transversal position; the stigma first separates from the body of the 

 bee and then the loculi gradually from the top to the bottom but then the 

 top of the pollen-mass sticks tot the back of the insect, and the loculi leave 

 their contents in a coherent strip on the back of the insect. It is clear that 

 so the stigma does not touch the pollen and at all events the pollen touches 

 only the outer side of the lower-lip. 



The bee entering into an other flower rubs along the lower lip of the 

 stigma and the pollen is forced into it. The construction is thus practically 

 perfect to make sure crossfertilization. 



In C. aurantiaca the construction is similar, but very different in particulars. 



The side-walls do not end in a protruded knot; the anther is attached 

 near the base to the filament and is erect in the normal position, but it is 

 a little curved, concave at the face. The entrance to the flower tube is thus 

 free but the body of the insect which moves along the somewhat angular 

 projecting base of the anther, presses the top with the stigma against its 



