Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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"Axillary sessile. Stigma lobes but not spread (seem to stick together). An unripe fr is 1 3/4 in long, cylindrical, & slightly curved & lobed; its apex depressed & cup like with 4 flaring lobes. Seeds not developed enough to judge by. The two collected specimens were slightly blancholate. Roots the largest 1 3/8 x 7/16 in acute, narrow at base & ultimately not quite sessile. Alments all entire tho some show signs of extremely low repand sinuate teeth. Ovules seem to be in "2-row ascending" Calyx tube about 3mm wide. St, from both sides vary; calyx tube v calyx lobes outside all hairy with straight, white, appressed hairs, pointing upward. Calyx segments a definite line about 7/16 in from