RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1876.12.06. Cordia F Muller. CUL-DAR110.B34. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: 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). See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here.
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Cordia F Muller
Style of one form about 3. to 2 compared to other form with the 4 stigmas considerably longer larger & longer & summit of style bearing them more deeply cleft.
Stamen of equal length, with anthers at mouth of corolla
Stigma of long-styled projected [illeg] corolla ─ in short styled enclosed & in this latter case beneath anthers, in the other above anther.
Short-styled pollen 6 divisions & a bit more long-styled ─ I think same size & so it appeared with the pollen-grain which had adhered to the stigmas of the 2 forms
(Dec 6 ─ 1876)
I cannot class them as dimorphic but note as
[Forms of flowers, p. 117]
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