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3-18-33 Cerinthe
Fl Brought by Dr. Lord from Alcudia, Fl. See C. major.
Lin II 308, Ron 220, Cret# 579, Hortus 138 and also
C. retrata Sifts v See BMGCP 627, Hortus 138. Lvs & bracts
v calyx lobes ciliate with short stiff upward pointing
hairs. Lvs only slightly rough to touch when fresh
but when dry seem much rougher and the tiny
white tubercles very distinct. Bracts vernales
conspicuously dark glaucous purple. Whole plant
glaucous. Corolla 16 mm long, yellowish at base only
the rest purplish much like the bracts; teeth equi-
lateral &S 2.5 mm on side and (in specimen) con-
venient in cone at tips. Filaments 3 mm bet points
of attachment, anthers 5mm long as to pollen & bearing
portion (ie disregarding tails of fully 1mm and terminal
loop 1mm.)
816A
Same plant v place as # 626. 3-18-33.
3-20-33
From Mrs K. Puerto de Andraitx, Fl. A tiny plant attached
to bulb of gladiolus bombiflora. Very slender & delicate,
5cm high, perhaps rooting at base; glabrous. Lvs over
3/4 flat noded but lfo scars seem sometimes dpr &
sometimes alt. Lvs oval-lorate, the largest 6x9 mm
or just 2mm. Lvs thin, entire, pennureined v
perhaps 3-veined at base. Fls seem solitary and
almost sessile in axils. Only one (poor condition) to
be studied. This was 1mm high. This had tubular
calyx with erect (or perhaps reflexed) linear