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Leschenaultia biloba splendens. May 1' 62.—

Mr Turnbull—

Marked 3 flowers with black thread & 1 with mal & put pollen in viscid surface above lip of indusium without disturbing indusium.— (None of these set seeds)

Marked 3 flowers with white thread & routed within indusium with fine brush; just as I did L. formosa; — in doing this I might have put some on viscid surface above.—

In bad indusium widely open — it does not quite well scrap off all pollen from anther: yet a good deal with indusium. Pistil curves over much into gangway into nectary: each petal with double guiding lines of hairs,— Lower lip can be easily opened—

I now find within indusium on lower side of upper lip abundance of pollen. I could see no stigma within indusium; & in large bud with indusium open, the whole interior surface certainly dry, whilst the true external stigma was viscid. dry.

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I have no doubt insect crawling open indusium & get dusted & would then infallibly rub it on stigma — or would do so in opening indusium for pollen; but gangway &c show that insect suck the nectar & break open the indusium — Admirable case of curious structure remodified into a "common flower." or state of Campanula

Jun 2d. I left pollen on upper excessively viscid surface for 65 hours & not one pollen-tube emitted.—