Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
Page 41
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people including Mrs Allen Smith of the local at Neergreen, very propant when crushed, about just ised. Some lanceolate & tapering to ends 3/4 x 3/4 in., but frequently long 3 1/4 in x 1 3/8, rounded at apex with a short tip & little narrowed at base. Veins flat on the yellowish midrib conspicuous. Edges a little wavy & rough to eye & touch though not stiff as many of the Viscum species. Dull dark green. Buds (pressed buds in axils) have scales & minutely rusty puberulent & are rusty ciliate. see as possibly BMQC 1942:30JH2602 5-15-29 Pittcolbium Anguis-Eat Mart p170 Tree 35 ft. at eastern edge Waterfall courbaning wall. Very finely franced. Tines & leaves short & obt. spurs from which appear 1 flower (see case 2 glands) No. Petiole 1/2 - 3/4 in with gland at apex where it bears 2 petiolates about 3/8 in long. Each of these with gland at apex & 2 axile fts. 2 lfts 1 1/2 in x 3/4 in inequilateral entire, blunt & slightly emarginate at apex, rounded on outside, straight role on inside, narrowed to base (the midrib at base being only 1/3 of distance from inside edge. Two concentric bud bronzy, little light green, only a little pale beneath. Glabrous somewhat ciliate on entire edge. The petiole & petiolates broadly quoad as as to both flattened at top being or upaper edges sharp when young. Perhaps of Calcalpin cassie No 42. a tree perhaps like this is pink at night on wall as my berries have seed berry still Rt. seems to die gone slumbered order but this not noticed in crushed lot.