RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1876.12.06. Erythroxylon F Muller / Long-styled 4 or little over / I can perceive / [on verso: Draft of Descent 2: 29-30. CUL-DAR110.B22r]. CUL-DAR110.B22. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2025. 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 volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).


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Long-styled 4 or little over

I can perceive no difference in size of pollen-grains

Long styled — & short styled } stamens of same form =

Stamens of short-styled longer by a fourth or fifth of them one length these other than of long-styled

3 pistils or stamens of long-styled many twice as long as those of short styled

Short-styled, stigma larger & styles thicker.— ! only in some species

Erythroxylon F. Muller

Dec 6 1876

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