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Sarchochilus parviflorus (Vandeæ) produces capsule not [unfrequently] in the [Blue mountains] but some in Sydney apparently from want of proper insect as seed well if pollen applied to stigma

Mr Fitzgerald

[Orchids, p. 91 n: "For the East Indies see Morren in 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' 1839, vol. iii. p. 6. I may give an analogous but more striking case from Mr Fitzgerald, who says "that Sarcochilus parviflorus (one of the Vandeæ) produces capsules not unfrequently in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales; removed from thence to Sydney, a number of plants, though flowering well, have not borne any seed if left to themselves, though invariably fertile when the pollen-masses were removed and placed on the stigma." Yet the Blue Mountains are less than one hundred miles distant from Sydney."]