. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. 96 A NATUBALISrS WANDERINOS its locked-up petals, I found the labellum beautifully marked with lines of purple, carmine and orange, and the column also; but no insect eye could ever be fascinated or allured by its painted whorls. In the rather inconspicuous Goodyera procera self-fertilisa- tion takes place by the swelling up of the viscid matter of the stigma beyond its true boundary, till it touches, as seen in Fig. 28, the viscid disk of the poUinia, and spreads i
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. 96 A NATUBALISrS WANDERINOS its locked-up petals, I found the labellum beautifully marked with lines of purple, carmine and orange, and the column also; but no insect eye could ever be fascinated or allured by its painted whorls. In the rather inconspicuous Goodyera procera self-fertilisa- tion takes place by the swelling up of the viscid matter of the stigma beyond its true boundary, till it touches, as seen in Fig. 28, the viscid disk of the poUinia, and spreads into the pollinia chamber. I have no doubt this takes place in many other species of Goodyera, and very probably also in our own Highland species, Goodyera rejoens. Other species which I have. riG. 27. riG. 28. GOODTEBA PROCERA ; A, SWOLLEX TP CACDICLES OF POLLINIA fSOMEWHAT EXAG- GERATED) ; B, SPLIT ROSTELLTJM, SHOWING IN FIG. 28 THE BISK OP POLLINIA ; O, STIG3IA ; D, UPPER MARGIN OF STIGMA BEFORE STIGMATIO FLUID HAS BEGUN TO SWELL ; E, THE STIGmATIC FLUID SWOLLEN UP. not been able to designate by name presented similar or allied modifications for securing self-fertilisation. To me was especially interesting the purple Arundina, which one might imagine to have become tired of vainly displaying its beauty to wayward and inappreciate butterflies and bees, and had assumed a form that should—let all the glittering humming wings pass heedless as they would—per- petuate a fertile race. These instances go to show that the rule that " the flowers of orchids are fertilised by the pollen of other flowers " is not so universal as has been supposed. It is to be feared that too often the interesting cases of flowers observed to be cross- fertilised by insects have been recorded, while those of flowers otherwise fertilised have not been mentioned, so that the law. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for read
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