Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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1-7-27 Tecoma stans, June p.352. Trumpet-flower. Wall left side, St. Rd Inn at Poinciana Hotel. Lower pedicels 3 to 7 flts. sharply pointed. Purple-green. Stem (1) front tip only turned dotted. Flowers like ill & Taberna p.352 under side longer than upper. Stamens three (?) 4 fertile stamens. anther sacs forming + with appendage between them. 5th stamen less than 1/2 as longy & another undivided? 1-9-27 Dpomscea decisa, Purdue p302 Noyes Vine. On wall left of Pomander Gate. Lower side view. Filaments dilated & hairy at base. Sepals enlarge to form a petiole 1/4 in x 1/8m. Purpleish dotted brown. capsule splits into 4 valves but only 3 cells v 3 seeds in three opened? Seed 1/4 in long, black, very slightly reticu- lated (20x). Ex-corpse to green stylelodes very distinct Fl. Fr. Unripevifed. 1-7-27 Dpomcea Batatas Lem. p.301 Sweet Potato. 20 ft. beyond Agre Shed. New vines of "Jackes" with hrs mostly entire v clefts or backed like ill. And vines of "Red Five Fingers" are lower ill. Head & "White Five Fingers" which was said to look like "Red Five Fingers" but to be white inside when cooked "like boiled egg" 1-9-27 Near Whitney Institute Flats saw Red Five Fingers in bloom. Purple flowers lighter on edge. Filaments dilated at tip & attached. Ovarla obconical at point of attachment. Style short, oblique, shortly. Grans (?) 4 or 5 from which ovule had just fallen, yellow v obscurely lobed looking like tiny summer squash. Throats probably dark. Refoflorations tend to purpleish hue. 1-9-27 Dpomcea - ? Jeff Cottinies, Poirs p.308. So Rd so side bet St Mark's Widelyjan Cent Cl. Same place as Maurandya antarlimiflora. A. local entrie B prominent slender but comentries C 1-10-27 D - ? Jack & BV. to some extent. Small thin sepals are ovate, lanceolate, not narrowly linear." Stamens sepalas vines are all hairy but just not so much as S. Nid p.299. A v B are twinlegether.