and the Use of the Kinematograph. 771 
A young inflorescence with all flowers in bud was chloro- 
formed next, and the results watched. No apparent change 
took place, but the development of the inflorescence was very 
curiously affected. 
The drooping buds went straight up into the vertical 
position, the position which the flower assumes after fertiliza- 
tion. The open flowers behaved in various ways : One took 
up the vertical position, whilst others moved down into the 
horizontal position, as in Fig. 9, 9. Some of the buds did not 
open at the usual time, but the style grew in length, as would 
have been the case normally the day after the opening of the 
flower. These buds presented the most abnormal appear- 
ance, with the stigma hanging out, though the sepals were 
quite closed. One bud measured 1 cm., and the style pro- 
jected 6 mms. from it. In some cases, after a few days, 
the flowers fell off at the joint. 
The effect of the chloroform seems to have been to make 
the buds and flowers lose all count of time. A bud, after 
recovering from chloroform, often missed out several stages 
of its development, another would grow a long style as if 
it were a two-day-old flower, while an open flower would 
take up the position of a fruit, or fall off at the joint, as if 
it were a ripe fruit. 
The difficulty in carrying out these experiments is that 
it is so very easy to give too much chloroform and poison the 
inflorescence so that it never thoroughly recovers ; in these 
cases other inflorescences are generally affected too. 
Kinematograph Experiments. 
It struck me that the inflorescence of 5 . africana would 
be admirably adapted for an experiment with the kinemato- 
graph. 
The inflorescence could be photographed at intervals while 
young, so as not only to show the opening and the closing of 
the flowers and the movements of the stamens, but also the 
development of the inflorescence from bud to fruit. The 
