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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