RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1876.12.04. Aegiphila Elata / Draft of Orchids. CUL-DAR110.B24. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. 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). 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
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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