The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Jussieu, Monographie de la famille des Malpighiacées. CUL-DAR111.A24. 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: 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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'Archives du Museum Tom 3 p. 1843 A de Jussieu Mon. des Malpighiacees

p 82 a whole section of the Fam produce minute closed flowers, with 1 stamen instead of 5 or 6 ─ & the one which is developed is the one not developed in the ordinary flower of the same species ─ ─ Produce seed

(Discussion on sepal & nothing new to me)

Moreover the small fl. have 2 instead of 3 ovaries, so that modification greater here than in any case observed by me.─

[Forms of flowers, p. 331: "'Archives du Muséum,' tom. iii. 1843, pp. 35–38, 82–86, 589, 598".]

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& get right vol of Bot. Z from D. Muller

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