When an insect touched an " antenna " projecting from the back of the flower, this released the bent pedicel which sprang straight and fired the pollinium, sticky disc first, at the insect.
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By November, a specimen of the exotic South American " Catasetum " orchid Hooker had given to Darwin had shown its " truly marvellous " mechanism, by which it shot out a pollinium at any insect touching a part of the flower " with sticky gland always foremost ".
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He vividly illustrated how the flower ejected the pollinium with considerable force : " I touched the antenn?of C . callosum whilst holding the flower at about a yard's distance from the window, and the pollinium hit the pane of glass, and adhered to the smooth vertical surface by its adhesive disc ."
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He vividly illustrated how the flower ejected the pollinium with considerable force : " I touched the antenn?of C . callosum whilst holding the flower at about a yard's distance from the window, and the pollinium hit the pane of glass, and adhered to the smooth vertical surface by its adhesive disc ."
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However, the flower is constructed in such a way as to make the surface almost impossible to cling to, with smooth, downward-pointing hairs; the bees commonly slip and fall into the fluid in the bucket, and the only navigable route out is a narrow, constricting passage that either glues a " pollinium " ( a pollen sack ) on their body ( if the flower has not yet been visited ) or removes any pollinium that is there ( if the flower has already been visited ).
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However, the flower is constructed in such a way as to make the surface almost impossible to cling to, with smooth, downward-pointing hairs; the bees commonly slip and fall into the fluid in the bucket, and the only navigable route out is a narrow, constricting passage that either glues a " pollinium " ( a pollen sack ) on their body ( if the flower has not yet been visited ) or removes any pollinium that is there ( if the flower has already been visited ).
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