Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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edge. Petiole about 1/4 in. Mid-rib not differentiated above but very definitely ridge below. Beneath (20x) if shows darkened dots when held to light is full pellucid punctate. Young lvs are fine-bronzy showing veins beneath & dots plainly. Inf. terminal at end of twig from which 3 pairs of buds disposed In specimen collected under crypta of 6 buds punctulate: 1 near base rachis, then 2 oppo, then 3 arriving from same point at tip. Pedicels 1/4 in. Pedicels v closed calyx at this stage dark rose-red. 3 pairs of bracts at base of calyx. Calyx tube top-lobed, lobes 4, the 2 outer just touching and, the one inner overlapping the other. Petals 4, intricate in rotation (not separately). Petals orbicular at this stage pink fringed at edges, on rim of calyx tube. Calyx lobes & petals punctate. Stamens very many in several rows. In rim of calyx tube just below petals filaments free. Anthers borne dors. slice longitudinally. Style simple rising from a glabrous depression its apex pointed v showing no definite stigma. Ovary 2 small cells rather low in fleshy calyx tube. Ovules many on surface of somewhat semi-spherical, parietal axillary placentae which lift out entire covered with ovules. Lvs not at all aromatic when crushed. This is probably Myrtaceae. Could it be Jambos jambos, Millsp or J. malaccensis, DC p 267 See BMGCP 535. St. slightly flattened but nodes but not angled nor really square. 4-3-29 Some free Inf terminal on short lateral twigs which sometimes bear a few buds infill, few