Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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"Very collected shrub with practically no trunk but long to 10 ft drooping branches (Perhaps var reflexa, Rk?) Char as underlined. Very pub this. Collected also 4-11-29. X 5-11-29 Origanum Marjorana, L p331 = Marjoram hortensis, Moench B.MJCP. 650 FL from Niles's garden. Lvs to 1/4 x 7/8 in. Dupl compound, the terminating in what looks like cluster of little green scaly lvs. These lvs scales are the sub-orbicular nut-kinding fracts. Calyx is much like the bract (twisted the other way up) having no under lip at all. Corolla white, flatter- elasit peeps out bet. Calyx v black. The five lobes almost equal but the 2 upper erect while the other 3 lower forming the lower lip are spreading. Stamens with white filaments v anthers exerted usually at sinus bet. upper v lower lip inces- ing the flattened effect. 5-7-29 Psychotria liquastrispa, Millsp p 363. Buks Poget Marsh 5-6-29 Hibiscus FL Mayflower "from seeds imported for Hawaii" says Mr Cox. FL yellow but not studied till faded. St. gray v smooth. Lvs firmer, broader, less sharply notched, less pointed at each end than those of H. rosa- sinensis collected 5-11-29 outside kitchen door of B.V. Lvs broadly olate to 3 x 2 1/2 in., firm, glabrous but not shining above. Same color beneath v glabrous except for occasional starry pubescence on veins beneath (the same sort of pubescence seen on