RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1861-1877]. Passiflora / Draft of Orchids, chapter 5, folio 121. CUL-DAR209.11.86. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2023. 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 volume CUL-DAR209.11 contains material for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880). The text of the draft corresponds to Orchids, p. 178.


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caudicle, instead of being free, becomes at an very early period of growth united to the Rostellum, of which a portion of is removed, together with the pollen-masses, by insects as in the case of Orchis & other ophreæ. The imaginary diagram (fig. 22) with the parts separated will best explain the (Fig. 22) type-structures of the Vandeæ. The summit upper part of the middle organ (2.) which which is the dorsal or posterior pistil of the three present in every all orchids; its upper part f is modified into & forms the rostellum & is curved over the stigma. The stigma consists of two confluent stigmas (3) belonging to the two [text excised] On the left-hand we have the


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