RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. n.d. Desmodium and other species. CUL-DAR209.2.18-20. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. 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-DAR209.2 contains materials on circumnutation of leaves and stems for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


[18]

No tendrils Dr H.

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1 sub equ

2 subequal variable

3 — sub equal

4 ‒ Canadense one quinque fol— sub equal (t rather > not 1/4>)

5— s:equal

Sect Chalarium lat never largest Maryland t sometimes >

upper leaves 1 lower 3. Chalar:

stipullæ of leaflets gone? in the unifol

angustifol is unifoliolate no trace of leaflets 

SigholaScopriurus (Section) same as Chalarium

Section Nicholsonia. same‒

Heteroloma ‒ platycorp unifol Chalari: no trace of lat leaflets

Asiat ‒Dendrolobium § trifle less subequal

§ Phyllodium same as Dendrolobium

§ Dicerma equal one species

§ Catenana ‒ subequal

§ Pteroloma unifol ‒ with phyllode < leaf & no trace of leafs

§ Scorp ‒(Asia)‒unifol & 3 fol— subequal— only stipell to t

[19]

No tendrils‒ no apex produced except v slight & not more Dr H says than in most Leguminosa

Always opposite in D gyrans

Enormous 3 fol not > 10 1 f.

[20]

§ Podocarpm Ind ‒ sub equal

§ Dollinera— 1 or 3 fol sub=

§ Heteroloma Ind 1 fol & 3 fol no trace or stipell of leaf

§ Nicholsonia retroflex retroflexum or 1 fol in same plant sometimes— generally the sp s are sub equal à

[figures]

§ Sagotia subequal

§ Pleurolob: Gyrans Himalaya

Malabar Coast

but no marked diff was seen examined a good many Philippines, Burmah, and Assam same general relation

The L leaf appear more fugacious than in other sp

Gyroides

[sketch] nearly subeq sometimes


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