RECORD: Darwin, Francis. n.d. Ammannia latifolia (Lythraceae). CUL-DAR133.19.3. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2023. RN1

NOTE: Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.

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Ammannia latifolia (Lythraceæ)

The calyx remains shut & is only opened by the swelling fruit. The anthers open very early & are so firmly attached to the sessile stigma that they can be more easily torn from their filaments than from the stigma

Dr Koehne

[Forms of flowers (1884), pp. xix.]

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