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"Peleg"
Tracts ciliate with long brown hairs. Infl. seems a very short raceme rather than an umbel
Pedicels short about 1/4 in pubescent
Frequently with small deciduous
fract at base v another higher up.
Petals 3/8 in long, thick somewhat ragged v crisped or edges. Stamens
3/6 in, shorter than ovary. Ovary finely
3-angled pubescent. Tree is 4 ft high.
Fls very fragrant. Again 10-5-29.
4-11-29 Pithophorum Tobria.
Lowly Smithlands suggests the above spin bud scales ciliate
with long brown hairs. Leaves not green (lighter than above) & white!
Some leaves shaped as above others
less house somewhat undulate
on edge. This is the variegated
form of P. Tobria. B.M.G.C.P 397
#5-9-29 Same shrub in fl.
4-10-29
"West Indian Plum" labeled Par-la-
Villette Do flor pr. Could this be
Flacourtia Ramonteli L'Her p 248
= F. indica Murr. B.M.G.C.P 509? ?
Branches has thorns 2 and
3- branched. 1/6 alt. or long
slender branches with a straight
thorn 3/4 in long in each axel
Leafs 3 1/2 x 1 3/4 in, acuminate but
with very tip blunt, base rounded,
crenate. Petiole 1/4-3/8 the round-
earound & small vein
dist tooth mucronate or similar.
Leaves green even when very young,
those very young twigs are finely
pubescent. 4-75-29 Agri Stat. East of
Bull Run. 10-18-29 same like Agri. Stat.
4-16-29 Pennisetum Ruppelii, Etend
p 41 B.M.G.C.P 110 Southlands Fl. 1/2 of 2 ft
long, rough on edges.