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Chysis bractescens? May 1. 62 Mr Bateman Biddulph Grange [Congleton]

[insertion:] Close to Cattleya

8 pollen masses all united to one web of elastic threads & grains. Viscid matter does not set in 10' [insertion: yet no nectary] (but after [illeg] I found hard) No difference in fertilisation from all other allies, as Cattleya.

Labellum only slight peculiarity: it has two upcurved basal lobes entering summit of column & anther - distal portion beautifully striped with pink, & in front of rostellum, a fan of short, protuberant orange cellular ridges. While labellum articulated to projection at base of column, as in Acropera Dendrobium &c.

I easily removed pollinia as in Cattleya &c &c,

N.B. in 20' viscid matter of Rost, nearly set, in 30' minute set Hard & dry

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This matter in the case of Chysis set nearly hard & dry in 20 mins & quite so after in 30 minute after it remains on the [illeg]