RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Markham, Travels in Peru. CUL-DAR110.B106. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed from the Darwin Online microfilm by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by John van Wyhe 3.2014. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with the permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).
B106
In a Plate drawing given in Mr. Markham's Travels in Peru p. 5391, from Howards Quinologia2, the Cinchona micrantha is shown to be have flowers as plainly dimorphic as in Primula. —
My attention was first drawn to this plant, by a drawing copied from Howards Quinologia — Vol. 3 given by Mr M in the Travels in Peru.
1. Markham, Clements Robert. 1862. Travels in Peru and India, while superintending the collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and their introduction into India, &c. London: John Murray.
2. Refers to: Howard, John Eliot (1807-1883). Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia of Pavon. London: Lovell Reeve & Co., [1859-] 1862.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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