RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Bateman, Orchideae. CUL-DAR70.152r. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. 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).

152r

Saw in Batemans Orchideae, beautiful plate of Cycnoches Egertonianum, which in Guatemala produced & once in England a scope dark purple & of a totally different species of Cycnoches, but generally in England scopes of the common Cycnoches ventricosum. yellow & much larger.—

(Really these facts are too much for my theory) It wd appear as if in this country it reverted to C. ventricosum. How is this idea applicalbe in the other cases? C. ventricosum seeds itself, so not sexual distinction. —

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Reference:

Bateman, James. [1843.] The Orchidacea of Mexico & Guatemala. London.

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