4 86 Hilh — The Floral Morphology of the Genus Sebaea. 
The stigma proper crowning the slender style seems somewhat out 
of the path of the visiting insect, if it be a small one, except in the few 
species with a relatively short style. As far as can be seen from an 
Text-fig. 2. Longitudinal section through one of the secondary patches of Sebaea aurea. The 
terminal stigma had been removed. Pollen-grains are germinating and the tubes growing between 
the papillae. (Slightly diagrammatic.) 
examination of a large number of herbarium specimens the terminal 
stigma is but rarely pollinated. 
Dr. Marloth 1 states that the flowers of .S', exacoides are visited and 
1 Marloth in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa, vol. i, pt. i, p. 313. 
