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Sept. 3d 1864. Stanhopea (with petals & sepals finely spotted with purple, with large eye-like purple spot on each side of basal cup of Labellum)

Pollinia will not stick in very narrow & little viscid stigma, so like Acropera. It is very remarkable no true caudicle, pollen-mass can be torn with pincers rather than separate from pedicel. Seeing that column curves towards wonderful labellum, which has lateral horns (& in former species in my House these horns embraced the column) I was led to scrape end of naked or gloved finger down concave column & this always removed pollinia. I then scraped finger, charged with pollinia, again down column, (even after

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Sept 7

[No] the truth is that caudicle so tough can hardly be separated pollen-mass back [illeg] as flower wither much viscid secretion from stigma.

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havng stuck [illeg] to finger) & pollinia was always rubbed off by [illeg], hard, sharp upper (column being upright & so in reversed position to natural position) & was left sticking irregularly by disk close to stigmatic cavity. Case like Iris. [insertion:] affected on Sept 2d & 3d

Now will tubes protrude?

I have put 2 pollinia evening of Sept. 3d sticking to column far from stigmatic cavity

Sept 8 pollen-tubes now just coming out after the old pollinia had been pushed into great drop of fluid at mouth of stigmatic cavity.

I believe all a mistake about pollen-tubes confervae!!!

(Not one of these set; but I do not give up view)