Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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4-28-29 Aleurites malaccana Walld p 219 BM CP #53. Young fr vlf St Dande Rd Bet Church Warf & East End Wharf. "Buttermut". Same as tree in St Geo P.H Europe fr fruits like a walnut 1/2 in diam, resiny stillete like top of petiole. Shell about 5mm thick, cavity filled with 1 large seed & 1 small endish- ed one. Ovary evidently was 2-celled with 1 oele in each cell. 5-2-29 Tetrapanax papyriferum frl p 359 BM CP #59. To fl of h. Young plant from enhancer to Longh Cottage sueler- ed from larger plants. Large palnts seen allevent at Denhanse to Loverstone & elsewhere. 5-4-29 "Clivia miniata", Regel BM CP 181 as called by Mrs Wm Till at Garden Club. Deep bearing fl, which was desc 4-22-29 Dc for flattened conv (S-edged. Spathe-valve or valves) in fragmentary remains. Pedicel seem- by 3 angled. X 5-2-29 Cyperus rotundus, L p 475 Fl Muddlerd just west of Valley Way. Fr tubers secured with spec But dese of fls correct except that scales are not acute but obtuse or truncate & Sparceuly (20x) serramarginate (Prob. seem serramarginate only as scale splits a little on being opened freshly) The green midrib ends in an acute point slightly below the apex of scale. Prob this is "nut grass" seen earlier at Long Cottage.