Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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"2-2-29" Ficus altissima " Lns. Hortled & margined wth yellow. Center & ff in shade of dark light green. Deaths fnew to reddish. X Carl made out. 2-1-29 Saintpaulia ionantha, Weud to BMJC.P. 697. African-Violet. Pot plant at Miss James! 3-2-29 "Dumbria candelabra" as per label St. Georges Public Garden. Looks like Enphobia lactea (p.214) except that it is light green v not mottled. 2-2-29 Pyrostegia ignea, Presl p 352 Miss James one buttery 2-2-29 Tecoma — St. Georges Public Garden. Presl T. stans p 352 but see B.MJC.P.671. Corolla 2 in long. bright yellow wth reddish orange stripes made anteriorly. X 2-2-29? Salvia purpurea, Car. Velvety Purple Sage p 357 not in DGX. BMJC.P.? S.P.N. Miss James garden plants from Miss Hunter where seen 4— '27. Loral to 3½ x 1½ in. 3 nerved, rounded at base acute apex, entire but somewhat undulate. Dulling dark green above, very white woolly below. Petiole in. Starlets tomentosa except in inflorescence where it is viscid v stellate to bristles. Infl. 6in. long wth fl. whorls widely spaced 1½-2½ in. Corolla 1 in very dark haelo- purple. Style purple, emarginated, 2 stamens purple about length of corolla. Calyx 3/4 in upper lobes entire, lower slightly 2 cleft, lobes acute but not spinousae.