. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. POLLINATING AGENTS lit) carrion^flies and dung-flies take pleasure in odours that are disgusting to us. Certain flies are common everywhere in closets, and delight in disgusting sub-, stances. These flies prefer to visit flowers with odours or colours disgusting to us and to higher insects alike. Such flowers have therefore been called nauseous FLOWERS, as, for example, ghekul or ghet-kachu % <?.. Fig. io6.—Ol t^A-morphophallus campanulatus) sp, Spadix. spa, Spathe. (fig. 105), ol (fig. 106), which emit a strong foetid odour during the night. Many flower
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. POLLINATING AGENTS lit) carrion^flies and dung-flies take pleasure in odours that are disgusting to us. Certain flies are common everywhere in closets, and delight in disgusting sub-, stances. These flies prefer to visit flowers with odours or colours disgusting to us and to higher insects alike. Such flowers have therefore been called nauseous FLOWERS, as, for example, ghekul or ghet-kachu % <?.. Fig. io6.—Ol t^A-morphophallus campanulatus) sp, Spadix. spa, Spathe. (fig. 105), ol (fig. 106), which emit a strong foetid odour during the night. Many flowers are scentless or nearly so during the day, and exhale a very strong odour during the night, as, for example, sheuli, mal- lika, juin, rajani-gandha, hasna-hana. The nauseous flowers mentioned above are also of this kind. Insects that have been enticed by colour or odour, or both, are offered by the flowers pollen, and usually also nectar or honey, as food; and in return for this hospitality the visitors, as a rule, effect their pollina- tion. Secretion of nectar or honey takes place in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.
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