From J. D. Hooker   [after 11 December 1854]

Most Anomalous Leguminosæ (from Bentham)1 Carmichælia — 52 Affonsea — 4 Stracheya — 1 Gleditschia — 4 Labichea — 6 Goodia — 2 Brongnartia — 6 Harpalyce — 2 Arachis — 5 Stylosanthes — 10 Chapmannia — 1 Abrus — 4 Cadia — 3 Dalhousiea — 1 Castanocarpum — 1 Dichaguea — 1 Diatium — 3 Detarium — 2 Copaifera — 6 Ceratonia — 1 Acrocarpus — 1

1
Hooker forwarded George Bentham’s list in response to CD’s request (letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 [December 1854]).
2
The numbers in the column indicate the number of species in each aberrant genus. The table bears out CD’s view that aberrant genera were generally represented by very few species. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 15 November [1854] and 11 [December 1854].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1546,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1546