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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.