Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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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.