Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
Page 34
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Harvard University Botany Libraries. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
"Phoenix canariensis" labeled Agri St at south of big rubber tree 2 specimens. Very stocky, 3 ft diam 7 ft (iron cage) 10 ft (in the other) to top of Crown. Los 12-15 ft long with a thick away to turn edgewise droop at tip. 4-27-29 "Erythrina Crista-galli" labeled Public Garden St. No. Ls fully out v fluds well advanced - a few open. Tree 2 1/2 ft diam at base, branching at about 3 ft into 3 upright branches 8-15 inches. Top sawed off at about 8 ft. Roots throw out young growth which bears flo. Inflo to 18 in long, the lower flo in groups of 1-3 in axile flo, supper flo with no subtending lvs. All the lvs flo are on young growth the shoots being to 3 ft long. 5-15-29 Cerbera Thevetia L f 284. BMG0 602. Fl 20 side of Beverly Rd east of Monroe. if "many glands at base of calyx are surround the base of disk they are no- mercurious (partly because of standing milk). Style 2 lobed distinctly as if seen almost parted. Style is higher than stamens deep in throat of corolla digma a double cone (near at base is big) style, 2 lked above the bases form a ridge around center which has 10 Dular little pointing downward. Anles bright green in the light and flshy and. Corolla has sinural projecting scales at throat a thick ring hairs encircling inside tube to scales. Directly below each scale is an almost sessile anthier with emmissive prolonged into lanceolate point 1-1/2 mm long. Shortly filisanthus (pres to be con- sidered as filament aduate in corolla