RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Bateman gives drawing of Plates of a famous Orchidaceous sport. CUL-DAR70.151. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. 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-DAR70 contains material for Darwin's book Orchids (2d ed. 1877).

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Bateman gives drawing of Plates of a famous Orchidaceous sport - In Bot Garden of York Catasetum luridum flowered true for 9 years & then from same bulb threw up scope of a Myanthus will be published.  

Dean Herbert

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[Orchids, p. 196 n: "Lastly Dean Herbert informed me many years ago that Catasetum luridum flowered and kept true for nine years in the Botanic Garden at York; it then threw up a scape of a Myanthus, which as we shall presently see is an hermaphrodite, intermediate in form between the male and female."]

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