Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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8-13-20 Acacia longifolia wild (See 8-10-20) Garden & Infanta. Each fl subtended by bract similar to the expanded top of bracts (?) above, not quite as divis-libes. Not fragrant. 3-13-20 Donbeya See BMJCP 498' like D. wallieii Benth & Hook except that fls are very delicate pink. Garden & Infanta. Tree 10-12 ft. Lvs orbicular obovate 8½ in diam, acute. pubescent above with simple hairs, stellate hairs inverse, beneath more softly pubescent with stellate hairs. Petiole 5/3 in. Stipules ovate, acuminate to 1/2 in, pubescent. Peduncle 5 in with 1 or 2 bracts (like stipules) near top. Fls in dense head with invol of 11 obovate bracts in long. Each fl with 3 lance- deciduous lateral bracts ½ in long on one side just under calyx. bracts not connected. Gardener called this (if correctly remembered) D. amabilis. Prob the same as seen in Bermuda at La Garza velsewhere. Ovary pubescent. 3-13-20: Chrysanthemum anthifolium, Brouss. BMJCP 768 Garden & Infanta. Lvs grayish green, so considered this instead of other possibility C. frutescens L.