CAPE OECHIDS, OXALIS, ETC. : 1864 229 



has described in an American Habenaria a nearly similar 

 contrivance with respect to the nectary as yours. I have 

 sent your paper to Linn. Soc. and I hope it may be 

 printed, but that of course I cannot say and IT may 

 be influenced by cost of engraving.^ 



With respect to the Satyriuon I sh'' think that the 

 pollen masses which you sent had been scraped off 

 the head of some insect BY the insect itself ; I do not 

 refer to the additional pollen-masses which you saw 

 growing in their eases. 



Most of the Oocalis which you so kindly sent me 

 flowerED, but all with 2 exceptions presented one form 

 alone. From what I know about Primula, I sh"* be 

 astonished at the same bulb ever producing 2 forms. 

 In the 2 exceptional cases, one bulb in each lot produced 

 a distinct form ; but I have very little doubt there ought 

 to be 3 forms. I got some seed from one of the unions 

 and have some feeble hopes that they may germinate. 



If I have strength (for I keep weak) I sh^ like to 

 make out Oocalis, so if you have any opportunity I should 

 still be very glad of seed. 



Many thanks about Strditzia.^ Would it be possible 

 to get a plant of the kind that seeds, protected from the 

 sugar-birds, with another plant unprotected near by ? 



I am tired, and so will write no more. 



With many thanks pray believe me 



Yours very sincerely 



Ch. Daewin 



' The paper was published in 1865. It is entitled : On the 

 Stmcture ofBonatea speciosa, Linn., with reference to its Fertilisation. 



By Roland Trimen, Memb. Ent. Soc. Lond. — Journ. Linn. Soc— 



Bat., ix (1865), 156. Darwin mentions this paper in his Notes on 

 the Fertilisation of Orchids in Ann. and Mag. N.H. for September 

 (1869), 8, 17 ; as also in Fertilisation of Orchids (1877), 76, 77. 



» See p. 228. 



