Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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6-7-32 Celsia Cretica L. Kn# 368, Bes 335, BMJCP 674, Cost# 623 Buda kinepe fr. Hoflofen. From Mrs. Kennedy from Sor Mas, Valdemora. St. as col 17 in light & basal lvs col. Plant hairy v. mis upper part, glandular. but not at all wooly. St. with 4 faintish ridges from base of lvs, but no could not be called decument. Lvs thinnish, flouy, serrate, all sessile vs longly cordate clasping, acute at tip. Bracts similar, the lowest only slightly smaller than upper most lvs. The upper bracts similar but progressively smaller v becoming long acuminate. Infl no, 8 in long. Bracts all longer than calyx. Calyx lobes rate, lfy, dentate, in the lowest 15 x 10 mm. Raceme looks very lfy because of large bracts. Pedicels about 4 mm long. Stamens 6, the flower with fila. ments glabrous (BMJCP Bes) Cost# to the contrary) the 2 uppers with violet pubescence. Pods ovate, globose valvining, strongly stipulate, the largest now almost 10 mm. Style (ie. shorter than calyx - Exactly like all Coste). Bract, calyx v pad. 16-13-82 Fls v basal lvs from same place [see out identification]