The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1876.12.04. Aegiphila Elata / Draft of Orchids. CUL-DAR110.B24. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1

NOTE: Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877). See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. The text of the draft corresponds to Orchids, p. 195.

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Ch V p. 134 M.S

Fig. 24

[Figures] A . B C. Calanthe masuca

p. pollen-masses

s.s. stigma

n. nectary

L. labellum

d viscid disc

ch. clinandum with pollen mass removed

A. Flower viewed from above, with the anther removed showing the 8 pollen-masses in their proper position.

All the sepals & petals have been cut away except the labellum.

[text excised] attached to the viscid disc

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Aegiphila Elata Dec 4' 1876

In long styled stigma project high above such corolla & so with stamen of short-styled

(If any difference in papillæ, these are most prominent in short-styled.)

[annotated sketch] (~~anther~~ filament + in long-styled very short [position] free from corolla— great length [illeg] in short-styled

Short-styled pollen-grain 12-14 divisions

Long-styled — 7-9 13.8

[calculations not transcribed]

Æ mollis essentially same structure

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