IN JAVA, 



89 



IliaTe examined other species of the genus, and found them 

 to be fertilised in almost identically the same manner, 



A not uncommon orchid by tlie sides of second-growth 

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



Fio, 9.— RrATHoaLornarucATA C^o^t 



Virtr)- A,AIfTlIKE-CAP; B.POLLrjfIA; 



c, ofcUDicLEs OF polunia: d, 

 snauA i k, fbont of coLximi ; f, 



TIP or ASntER-CfAf- (J, PLAT Of 

 JJAEGIV OF ffrrOMA. 



FIG. 10.— SPATII0SL0TTI3 PLtCATA (SIDE 

 VIEW). WIIE3J ASTHEfi liAS fEOTTATED 

 DOWNWABDS; A, O, E, AS IS 



FIO. 9 ; BOfiTELLUli. 



white or purple terrestrial orchid SpathogloUis pltcaiaf BL, 

 whose method of fertilisation differs from that of the Phajus, 

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



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no. 11.— BPATHOOLOTTf* PIICATA, 



A. C, E, P, M» AS IS PEETlora 

 PlOrnE,- B, FOLLiyU. [mAGKAM- 

 MATIO.J 



rtQ, 12. — aPATifriGLorrts pltcata, 



(PROST VtrM). TTITU THE ASTEIEE 

 FMrTATED EKiWN OVER THE STlOSlA | 

 LBTTEUS SAU£ AB LS PBSVlOUS 



long sharp triangular rostellum far OTerarching the stigma 

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

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

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



