Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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Lfts with petiolules about 1mm, with number 3 stipular organs similar to those on main rachis except that they are smaller; v the lateral ones are owl shaped without the conical base. Lft very deciduous. Lft elliptic to lorate 1/2 x 1/4 in below to 7/8 x 1/2 in on upper branches, entire, rounded a little emarginate at apex, rounded or obtuse at base, somewhat inequi- lateral. Whole lft light green & glabrous. 5-11-29 Jasminum Sambac, s.n. BMG.C.P. 594. Vine mixed v st more less real formed fls. B.V. in hells at backdoor gallery. Lfts to 2 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. Calyx tube & linear loral formed usually fold down centre. 3/8in long at most, hairy inside, more or less so outside! but approaching glabrous. Pedicels pubescent. Fd somewhat doubled. Corolla lobes of fuse, st pubescent. Fl fragrant. Pb this 1-29-27 was low & strongly shrubby, may have been this out back since blooming in Jan. x 5-11-29 Stelisanthus isophyllus T. Anders. p.357 BMG.C.P. 770. B.V. under 1st fl season. Pedicel & calyx densely covered with a stalked gland, Corolla 4 in high x 2 1/8 in across. Tube narrow at base but enlarged curved lobes. Stamens 4, thin bases of filaments barely connected, anthers pointed at base. Positin staminode indicated by tiny protuberance. Anthers yellow white. Corolla dull blue, lighter midde. Pubescent v slightly glandular out- side. Stigma with 1 long recurved lobe v 1 my short erect lobe. Ovary in disk, 7/8 in high, 2-celled, ovules 13 in each cell exaxil. Placentae. Corolla trussed in bud.