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July 10 64 – Vine against House when Corolla drops off, like a cap without opening, the bowed stamens are found resting on stigma covered with pollen! Here seems case of self-fert – yet it is known they require aid & many gardeners go over with with pencil brush – Pollen incoherent, but not in very perfect degree & no nectar (yet these is in Cissus discolor) & stigma projects & flower naked & inconspicuous – Also gardeners recommend shaking pollen on paper & [illeg] it up in cloud –

Perhaps stigma not quite mature

[in margin:] Dichogamy

 

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& when flower opens –

I suppose a self- fertilised flower occasionally crossed by wind.

Stigma large – prominent but not plumose –

Pollen not copious.

(Certainly no honey)

Cissus discolor – flower small with bright red calyx? so as to be more conspicuous – secrete nectar. Pollen small in quantity-