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"The 3 outside sepals purple or lavender with greenish mid- ribs; the wings purple or lavender with darker veining, petal like. The 2 upper petals free on upper edges the lower edges attached at base to a staminal tube. v to the third (i.e lower) petal. Flushed pale lavender or purple. Third petal smaller, green- ish with a crest of 2 purple lobes v2 hooding greenish lobes. Stamens 8, filaments united at base into a tube which is a split on upper edge, the part of filament which is free being very slender. Anthers erect, one- celled opening at top by a pore. Upper part of style cup shaped with a blunt posterior lobe bent at angle and an anterior lobe not bent derminating in a short stalked woolly capitate organ probably the stigma. Or possibly this cup should be considered 4 lobed with 2 low obscure lobes between these just described. In f the anthers lie over the cup of style enveloping the woolly capitate organ. Petals, stamens v style fall, leaving calyx with the superior 2 celled maturing ovary seed 1 in each cell, black, hairy pendulous, with white aril at seed 2 1/2 mm long overall Aril attached to seed at upper end, extending as 2 free lobes about 1/3 its length. A line extends from up part to lower ends of seed v at lower end is a tiny white spine like. Sperm pressed Rostigianus 4-25-28 "Mammea Apple" by Mrs Turgot Harrington House Tree No. 1 Fr. Lot had very like Capsella Could this have been Caloceras humshan- morrum, Pierre p 285. See P.Mf. P. 589
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lanceolate, inequilateral, the midrib dividing it almost in thirds, the narrower part on upper side. Lower lobe acute, apex acuminate to central apex rounded irregular at base, glabrous, entire Petiolule 1/4 in. long hairy on top. At base free at tip a subulate appendage 3/8 in. long. In sleep the petiole first rotates left and hair backs to upper side (pedicel? narrowest part 1/4 left below). Pod 3 1/2 in long x 1 1/8 x 7/8 wide, flat ribs, stripe dent (not fur). Seeds 4 mm x 3 mm x 2 mm, flat, grooved edge with large delt. spots on each side. Seeds probably transversely to valves as the pod has numerous transverse partitions [See 3-29-27]. Lobes having somewhat hair on mid ribs bent all, edges with narrow translucent edges which are ciliate. 4-29-29 Centaurea Dellericii, Haw- P255 /1st/ season. Db. Rd. but Devils Hole St Marked. Stigma 8-rayed. Petals light yellow. Fz. I collected previously but still common on plants purpled, purple rich crimson very full seeds. 4-30-29 Tamarix gallica, L. No 244 Ft. V fz. just east of Ferry Point. Or for B because ft. buds are ovoid (not sub- globosa) and stamens inserted on brances of angled disk (not flat lobes of disks) thorns T. anglica, Willd. See B.M. G.C.F. 506. Capsule 4 1/2 mm long (ie. almost twice as long as sec. to B.F.) [?] opening by 3 valves. Placentae 3, really parietal tho' at very base of valves. Stamens persistent. Ed specimen from Mrs Day picked elsewhere shows stamens or angled disks. (W.B in neither) these cases are angles very distinct but stamens are not set any little sticks.)
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"globose except for very rough edges. Tricolored green, mid-rib prominent below; ligule a fringe of white hairs. 4-29-29 Fr. Tree in St. Maris Cliff overlooking the seawall seems to be very much the same as a tree at Whitelally East wall. 1/2 pinnate, lfts oval, ls 3 x 1 1/2 in., globose, entire, tip not narrow but rounded at apex, base rounded. Fr.a 1-celled flat pod, 2 3/4-2 7/8 in x 1 1/2 in., margins flatly winged, containing 1 flat bean shaped seed 1/2 x 1/4 in. Dark stalk and a brown mucilaginous substance. Tree at St. Maris is the one P. remembers as called "Salsola of Peru" by Gardner. 3-8-27. Lfts 9 (pairs of aps). Vein-parallel, enlarged at base. Petiolets 3 1/6 in. Pod narrowed to acute apex vs longer narrowed to acute base. 4-25-29 Maranta arundinacea, L. #88 B.M. & C.P. 207 Rotev young plant from field (recently harvested) moved to Rutto Beach St. Davids. It from horizontal scaly root stock (some root stocks collected in barrels evidently for replanting). Lfs 6 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in. Plicate mostly sheathing with sheath 2 l lobes at top. From leaf blade extends free part of petiole 1/2 in. to an articulation above which is 3/8 in more petiole to base of blade. Sheathing all these parts pubescent, the upper side of leaf less so. 4-29-29 Nura cuspidata, L p 219 at Whitelall St. Geo. P.H. had lost all leaves Feb 2. Remains this nearly articulate blunt at apex 2 1/4 x 1 1/4 in show the strong pinnate venning. Lower dentate on edges, cordate at base. 2 glands at with 3 petiolate blade stalked at
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The correct idea: ovary seems 5-celled with cell not dividing, sometimes incompletely, so the few (usually 2), not numerous ovules, seem attached in center of ovary and should have been considered them attached to file placenta, but [see B.M. J.C.P.] perhaps they are attached on inner edges of spiral placentae. No traces of stamens or staminodia. The 2 outer sepals intricated is 1 folded over the other, 3, the outside one folded on that. (The inside ones so small in bud and difficult to see if [illegible] intricated) 5-4 ? 5-5-29 Abelia Cofra, Harv. v. Sonder. p. 248 = Doryalis cofra, West B.M. J.C.P. 570. Only 1 tree with langetions at 2-3 corner of Arica from Agri. Stat. 1 near dios. 4-19-27. Sepals usually 4 finely pubescent outside, as are the ½ in pedicelo. Disglations, shining dark green. Floret from old wood. 5-4 ? 5-5-29 Garcinia Livingstonei, T. Anders. p. 247. Sepals B.M. J.C.P. 582 1 to W.N.D. 270. See 4-19-27. & Floret. Agri. Stat. Home from. Labeled "Feijoa dellowiana" but cannot be since Feijoa (see B.M. J.C.P. 587) belongs to Myrtaceae which has inferior ovary, aloelas or white tomence beneath, flo solitary, and long pedicelled. Branches very conspicuously in 3's or 4's. Low tops or in 3's. Flo from old wood. Flo solitary in -- groups of several each on peduncle ½ in long. Sepals 4, the 2 outside ones smaller. Petales 5 intricated, greenish. Stamens dies many from under or with filaments radiating in a thick yellowish Ovary 3-ovate, seated in center of disk.