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9-4-81
Calyx campanulate 17mm high with 5 obtuse rounded lobes. Corolla greenish yvords-lanceolate petals, 3mm wide thickened v slightly hooded at apex, inserted between calyx and a very apparent disk (thick 1/2 mm wide). Stamens 5, free, opp petals, under disk, shorter than petals; anthers yellow opening internally. Style short conical, its rounded tip stigmatic. Ovary seems at first embedded in disk but at fr grows is plainly superior (calyx & disk showing plainly below). Ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell (1-4 maturing); ovules attached at base. Ellipse now about 7 x 9 mm, green with tiny dark spots, berry-like to taste thin v no pulp. See Anfelopsis BMDCP 479 "mostly tendril bearing"
9-4-31 Hypericum calycinum L BMDCP 504; SVKE 248 unipara. Near above. Cult in unheated hothouse, its b in light pinkish, 4 angled (not sharply), platyous, lfy from base, internodes 1/2 in. Leaves opp. Along, sessile, entire, ob- lance, very firm, glabrous, dark green above, finely cheeker ed vry pale green beneath; the upperlovs 2 x 3/4 in. Flowers in panicles 1/2 in. Sepals large (3 largest to 5/8 in) broadly rounded at apex, with faint signs of ciliation. Style 5d. Cap- sule almost 3/4 in high, ovoid, when cut exude strongly juice with slightly acinona odor. Dite cross section y lart hollow in center, with the 5 partitions thickened v banging at inner end and v slowly coloring into being. The many ovules borne on each side of this thickened part hence appearing (at first sight) axillary.