Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
Page 45
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"at tip pointed, splitting from one corner. Corolla gamopetalous 12 in long narrow tube 1/2 inches, Sangled purple. Or more expands to diam 32 in narrowing slightly deprted into 5 lobes each with a apical 3 4/2 mm. the Curl backward are fluted & filled Cream with 10 purple veins. very definite from inside. Corolla only slightly oblique Stamens & staminal filts [illegible]. Stamens include all Spring from corolla tube where it begins to dilate. Filaments extend as ridges on Corolla tube to 1/2 in below this point and thence gradually cover whole. Every segment is to 6x, is flat seamed, & cell, rules many or plecentric thus: Stigma hardly enlarged and scarcely at all lobed. Anthers not seen before pollen shed but after quite best of small watermelon faced 8 paired from point near inside center. This effect may be produced by cells pressed longitudinally 90° so that inside peel becomes a flat exposed surfaces the edges of the two cells meet. This st. got this from "Hurst on Range" N. J. who called it Chalice." She has never seen it from seed. East Brunswick? Zizyphora quitola