From:
Edward Bradford
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 274, DAR 166: 95/1
Summary:
Doubts CD’s view in Orchids [pp. 236–46] that Catasetum tridentatum is exclusively male and has as its female form the genus Monachanthus. EB has grown many of this type in Trinidad; has never seen that female form.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project