Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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4-7-32 petide. Calyx div. 4x with linear petals rotamen at each angle. Pedicels 1, mm. 4-7-32 ? Arabis Fl. From Mrs. Kennedy, Valdemosa (Sa Comuna) 3 1/2 cm high. St vis covered with stalked, starry-branched hairs to near top, but uppermost of caly, ginfl contracting by glabrous; calyx not only a few branched hairs at top, but also minute glabrous and minute straight appressed hairs. Basal lvs in a thick rosette, the large 10x5 mm (many smaller) obovate, some short petioled, others sessile, all with low teeth. St lvs reaching to base ginfl; sessile, oval-oblong, flattened as much as 3/8 in, rounded at tip (as were basal lvs) less rounded at base but not at all auriculate or clasping. Ginf now 7 mm high but shows signs of later branching. Pedicels now 3 mm. Sepals 3 mm, elevated just at base, 1/2 long, rounded at apex and with white edges as view ed from inside. Petals cream-white shading green- gy gradually towards growing into claw, 4 x 1 mm (or possibly larger since these meas. taken from adv. bud). A true petal found in a spec. was 6 x 1 mm with base of claw very slender. Petals rounded or oblique-truncate at top, entire. Pod will be longer than wide (dry now 2 1/2 mm. Too young to study otherwise. Flower is at side of rosette lvs; one st has been broken off from another part of rosette & possibly others are to appear.