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What I observed is pic- 

 tured severally at Fig. 2, the 

 flowers, with their two spreading 

 stamens and the decidedly excep- 

 tional and unsymmetrical posi- 

 tion of the long style extending 

 to the side, being shown from 

 above. A small nectar-seeking 

 bumblebee had ai)proached, and in alighting upon 

 the fringed platform grasped the filaments for 



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