Notes on the F ertilisation of South African 
and Madagascar Flowering Plants. 
BY 
G. F. SCOTT ELLIOT, M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S. 
With Plates XXI, XXII, and XXIII. 
r FHE following are the somewhat scattered and miscel- 
-1 laneous notes which I was able to make during a 
two years’ botanical trip. I found it quite impossible whilst 
travelling to make as thorough and complete observations 
as are really required to properly understand all the adapta- 
tions of a flower to insect-visitors ; but as most of the forms 
have not hitherto been studied in their native haunts, the 
following may be of some interest. I endeavoured to collect 
every insect which I saw visiting the flowers, and brought 
home with me a numbered collection. I have to thank 
M. Henri de Saussure for his extreme kindness in naming for 
me all my Hymenoptera from Madagascar (about 60 species), 
many of which were new to science. Mr. L. Peringuey, 
Assistant Curator of the South African Museum, Cape Town, 
gave me also about 76 names most of which were specific as 
well as generic. These were chiefly Coleoptera from South 
Africa, and my thanks are due to him for his very valuable 
assistance with these difficult forms. I have also to thank 
Mr. Waterhouse, of the British Museum (Natural History), for 
about ten of the commonest generic names ; I have not, how- 
ever, been able to obtain any other assistance at home from 
the magnificent collection of South African and Madagascar 
insects in that institution, and many of my insects are there- 
fore still unnamed. 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. V. No. XIX. August 1891.] 
