Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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F. merantia 21-31 hit def. narrower than in ? F. agracia 21-31. 2-2-32 ? Cestrum nocturnum L. BMDCP.661 FLv2. Colle de Salud Gt with same species Infante & (nos nof hfr) studied 8-10-30 in frz. Plant trained against wall for support, glabrous thin glast. Lvs 4x1 1/2 in, oblong, orate acuto (not long tapering), rounded at basalicle base and distinct jectioles 1/2 in. 7 serricte, both sides of same smooth, yellowed green. Fls cerma-axillary & terminal fewicles. Calyx 4mm long with 5 alert triangular divisions. Corolla tubular, about 2 cm long x 1 cm wide at mouth; tube slender enlarging slightly at throat. Corolla greenish no fragrance (but in 1930 tenant & Infante & spoke of fragrance at night) corolla lobes 5, not reflexed, about 3mm high, edges somewhat inclined. Stamens 5, attached to tube, alt. with lobes, each filament with small tooth on inside just below point of attachment. Style1, reaching to mouth of corolla; stigma capitate. Ovary superior. Fr a white berry, rather along about 1 cm high, when ripe fleshy containing only 1 single brown seed, but unripe fr show every 2 celled with 2-4 (poss more) ovules in each cell on axile placenta. Corolla lobes valvate in bud. Calyx act. iculated with the alert pedicel.