Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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incomplete, showing the large yellowland but undeveloped floral parts. 3-26-29 Thunbergia erecta, T.Anders. p355 B.M. Q.C.P. 649. Braemont. Fl. St. sp. slightly winged at corners, enlarg- (20x) purplish ing at nodes. Young tinges delicately beery at nodes and ledges minutely barbed upward (this not evident to deeper view) Lf 13/8 x 7/4 in. olate, acute. Tube white outside yellow inside gland-pubescent outside. Calyx glandular. Calyx teeth (20x smaller than others) 19-15-17 Antlers hairy at base valved edges Stigma characteristic form ie. 3 holes 1 erect with edges together the other horizon- tal. 3-26-29 Opilia Cantoriensis, Lons. p165 v B.M. Q.C.P. 360 Fl. Braemont. Floral ends of leafy shoots and as stem may be marked below them to 3/8 in (except for tiny scales) have effect of being in coynbbs. Peduncles arising from near same jet, slender 1/2-1/2 in each bearing 1-2 small, ciliate scales, Lvs 1-1/2 in. but nitrile only at tip for about 1/3 length. Bud scales (persistent at base of young shoots) brown ciliate. Fls double, no sex organs. 3-26-29 Iris Xipilion L. B.M.Q.C.P.193 Fl. Mtnt Braemont. Basal lvs to 2 in x 7/8; Fls purple-blue, falls with yellow band down center to middle of blade. Haft purplish tinged, blade to clear blue. Standarda purplishb. Florage grassh. green, lvs silvery inside, the basal lves lax, concave, the uppers deeply grooved (or scalped) v long downcurled, grasslike