THOUGH “the abominable mystery,” as Darwin called the problem of the origin of Flowering Plants, is by no means solved, there has been before the botanical world for some years a theory of ...

Plants are able to reproduce in two different ways - sexual reproduction and asexual reproducion. Sexual reproduction involves pollen from one flower fertilising the egg of another to produce a seed.

The title appears to us decidedly misleading (“The Flowering Plants of Western India”), as one might naturally expect at least an enumeration of all the Phanerogamous plants growing within the ...