RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Transactions of the Linnean Society, 1837. CUL-DAR205.4.26. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.4 contains notes on geographical distribution and species.
Linn. Trans. v. 17. p. 98. A. de Candolle on Myrsineæ.
Of 100 species 92 are limited to one region (out of 24 regions in which they are found) (not including Europe). This is large proportion" - out of 4000 species calculated in same regions he finds in Melastomaceæ 98 endemic; Campanulaceæ 84 &c in Papavacaeæ 60 &c &c. The Myrsineæ, the most sporadic is found in six regions viz. Ceylon, Bengal, Nipal, Burmese Cochin China, Indian Arch.
Two other species extend over same 4 or 5 regions One Myrsine is found in 3 American regions & ten other (Myrsines) [word excised] species in two regions.
(These numbers do not agree with 92/100
[in margin:] Geograph
[Alphonse de Candolle. 1837. A review of the natural order Myrsineæ. Read 5 March; 16 April 1833. Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. 17: 95-138.]
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