From Daniel Oliver [27 March 1863]1
Royal Gardens Kew
Friday morng.
My dear Mr. Darwin
By this post the flowers of the Edwardsia are sent in small tin box. I enclose bracts of some Marcgraaviaceae.—2
I am busy upon West African Amomums,3—the genus furnishing “Grains of Paradise” &c. & characterised by anthers with curious crest variable in different species, as over 3-lobate crest
The flowers have each but one anther the cells of which embrace the top of style & the capsulate stigma projects at top. I can’t guess how the crest-arms work; they are (the lateral ones) so usual & so frequently incurved, altering from bud to flower, that one cannot but think they are not useless but serve some thing.
Ever very sincerely yrs | D Oliver
Footnotes
Summary
Sends some specimens for CD.
Is busy with W. African Amomum, whose floral structure he discusses.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4328
- From
- Daniel Oliver
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 173: 23
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4328,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4328.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
