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Aegiphila — organ from exserted

stigma & anther above 1/2 down tube in long-styled form, & so with stigma of short-styled —

In short-styled abundance of pollen

In long-styled anthers very small ( ) & corner of brown fleshy substance contabescent — not a grain of pollen — dioecious —

May be case like Thyme

{Short-styled with stigma shorter & more fleshy & much thicker with surface irregular, proportion found of aggregation of larger cells had a hypertrophied appearance.

Darwin defined the term contabescent as used in these notes: "anthers were either shrivelled…without any good pollen-grains…in the state designated by Gärtner as contabescent, which term I will for the future use." Forms of flowers, pp. 192-3.