RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Don, Description of a new genus belonging to the natural family of plants called Scrophularinæ. CUL-DAR205.5.73. 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 volume CUL-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.

David Don. 1827. Description of a new genus belonging to the natural family of plants called Scrophularinæ. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 349-54.


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Linn. Trans. XV. Part. 1. p. 349. D. Don "what render this genus. (Lophospermum) particularly interesting if its partaking of the characters of two very distinct natural orders. — Possessing all the essential marks of the Scrophularinæ it agrees also with Jacaranda, a genus of the Bignoniaceæ in the form & covering of its seeds."—


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