Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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"1 mm long x nearly as broad, both tuberculate [illegible] but distinctly different. 4-5-29 Erythrina. Fl. Tree so. side of So. Rd. op p Cotonwold Robson tree. Fl to 2\frac{1}{2} in long Calyx \frac{1}{2} in long very dark red brown, shinin g the with scattered very short appressed hairs. Calyx and splitting the position of [illegible] dent, the 2 posterior ones very obscure, the lateral ones somewhat more evident a real growth and the anterior one standard a darker red than 4-3-29 and with straighter line on back \frac{1}{7} not most \frac{1}{8} in wide folded down back (hence narrower than 4-3-29). Wings \frac{5}{6} in long white, feel a trifle shorter. Stamens unequal but not [illegible] lengths (not as 4-3-29). Ovary style puberulent. Kel cor. sists of 2 distinct parts not at all united, falling from when the \frac{1}{4} calyx standard are removed similar to the wings in shape ve trifle smaller i.e. \frac{7}{8} in long. Style redish, hairy on line along upper edge otherwise almost glabrous. Stigma terminal on the tip of style which is bent slightly upward & flattened. Tree dried. Racis v pedicel slightly puberulent Pedicel \frac{3}{8} in dis joined with the fl. w with the racils, the fl falling easily from the pedicel & the pedicel from the racils. 2 fin B HGC P this is pres F. Coralb deduced p 410 but consider E. velutina willd BFF p 188 & others Comp with 3-25-27 v with the gip Wrs. Thernine Valley Way. Stamens monodelphious. Receptacle remaining at base & style when stamens are removed to 3 mm length with glauds (p8610) em-