Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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crowned with sessile pelbte stamens less always stouterly lobed stigma chary 2 celled with double in each cell. Chary wall exudes yellow juice when cut. Los asdicse, 4-1927, the mid rit & lateral veins showing whitish on the not shining green surface. 5-4-29 Solanum torvum, Sw S 336 FL Agri Stat. long shoot, "to" from seen & another labeled near ofice door. Trunka with thorns. Los on various, when nearly entire upper surface with almost sessile yellow stary pubescence making it rough to touch. Los beneath V st. to tendons with longer stalked & white stary pubescence. Florlite, in diam longest meas lobes acuminate. Rid ribs of some los slightly armed beneath. " says Mr. Nauen 5-17-29 5-4-29 Aleurites Fordii Nemel S M DCP 43" Agri Stat. Plantation of young trees. Dofl fr. called "Fang or Thing Oil Tree" by gardeners. Los alt. almost circular in outline. 5-7 nerves at base. Colate entire except that the 2 lateral nervea meet mid-rib end in shallow becc short both. Openb & about 10ths. Petrol with 2 (more case 3) red sessile pelbte gland at apex. Young los frt. has signs of vanishing rusty puber- ceator, old los glabrous above los below beneath have very closely appressed pubescence mostly with hairs but some rusty, the hairs being attached in middle. Los from 4 1/2 in diam (these young ones) to the largest collected 7 3/4 in diam Petrols from 3 1/2 to 7 1/2 sic, largest lt.