RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Leguminosæ. CUL-DAR209.10.82-84. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. 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-DAR209.10 contains notes on sleep (Leguminosae) for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


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Leguminosæ

Tribe 3

3 Trigonella cretica (71) The middle leaflet turns vertical and goes against the Rt or Left lateral leaflet

Tribe 4

4 Securigera. coronilla (78)

4 Tetragonolobus pupureus {Lotus 81} — 3 leaflets upwards

Tribe 5

5 Psoralea acaulis 83 — Three leaflets, 2 sides ones move up & come together & the end one comes against the united edges of them

5 Amorpha Dalea alopecuroides 88 — Downwards

5 Petalostemon violaceus 89— Downwards (12 genera in this tribe)

5 Indigofera tinctoria (91) Downwards

5 Sphærophyra Tephoria— Duchartre & Wistaria Cl. Royer Robinia Clianthus (127) salsola Upwards

5 Astragalus uliginos us (133) Colutea— Decandolle leaflet rise —(I have observations also) — upwards

Hyplosphoriza Linnaeus

Tribe VI 6

6 Uraria lagopus (174) 3 leaflets which drop down one at the end & one at each side

Tribe 8

Centrosema St Catherine — see M. S.

8 Soja hispida (Glycine (196)) 3 leaflets drop down

8 Apios tuberosa (204) Downwards

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Leguminosæ

Tribe X 10

10 Edwardsia chrysophylla (Sophora 273) Leaflets sleep like Mimosa but I dont know whether the secondary petioles close up

Tribe 13

13 Cæsalpinia echinata (308) — upwards

Hæmatoxylon Gleditschia— Duchartre

13 Coulteria pertinata (Cæsalpinia) 308 upwards

13 Pterolobium abyssinicum (311) leaflets shut like Mimosa

13 Poinciana Gilliesii (317) leaflets like Mimosa

Tribe 15 Cassia Tribe XIV

15 Bauhinia Richariana forlicata & discolor (333)

Tribe 16

16 Tamarindus indicus (348) upwards

Tribe 20

20 Adenanthera pavonina (378) leaves turn edgways & drop

20 Prosopis (382) upwards

Tribe 23

23 Albizzia lophanthus (394) upwards

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Leguminosæ

Gœbelia alopecuroides (Not in Bentham nor Steudel). The leaflets drop down

Ligophyllum not in Steudel or Bentham (Leguminosæ)

Zygophyllum guaiacum evidently can shuts upwards from the look of the leaf, but it did not do so at night— It may have been unhealthy.

Guaiacum officinale — did not sleep at night


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