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1-21-27 Achyrantus Betzielsiana,
Button, Bettische A. Diploontite
with dark ? m outside v leaves outside
Needs excise. Upper leaves & the pink
v rolled into tubular effect. P?/2?
From toquet in ball.
1-21-27 Green v white var. obscure
20 commonly seen. Flo. White
with purple spots. Tube contracta thin expanded, slightly z? rows at top
Limit 5 lotted only at left side
for upper lobes smaller v limb
deeply divided. Fertile stamens 2 (A)
2 mutilated non fertile stamen; (?)
1 port.
stigma ?-lobed.
Calyx with 5 purple tipped unequal
leaves, persistent. Ovary seated in
Cup, free from Calyx, 2 celled, and the
2?-3 mm x Flo in raceme
opposite, m about traced stiple.
Seems to be ? Acanthaceae
perhaps Helontomena cuspidatum,
Kunth? - P. 356 Spec 1-21-27
Ternudiana v 1-25-27 Willhaven.
1-18-27?
Purple trifolium at St. Georges
Historical Museum. Lvs purple
linear v green v purple above.
Flo m raceme dy? ? or in
Group of three x otherwise sparsa
eumotolinychas. Iatro?-to
well opened flo seen.
(with)
(? N.B., old buds found 1 green white
Spec perhaps more fully developed
into group of three?)
1-23-27 Bougainvillea spec?iliis, Hill?
Purple B, p/124. From ?ark v.
Lvs 2?-8 cm x 1/2 in entire very fuzzy
linear acute acuminate <t.
Influence three banded 2 threes
a= joint in middle stem
b= joint on lateral stems
c= bracts purple
d=bractlets
Racet leaflets, in threes
ornate & basis of midrib.
Flo resile, spreading from