Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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"? 5-6-29 Cassia leguminosa L. #171 Fl. Mayflower. Same as 4-29-29 at Miss Hunter's at Vt. (particular and sometimes fine) Fl rich yellow in acres, opening nearly flat. Sepals yellowish green concave, somewhat finely ciliate. Pedicels thin, falling readily from rachis from base of fl. Racemes axillary at ends of branches shorter than the out bending tips, few fld. St. (upper sin.) ridged sparsely hairy with white strigil hairs. Same 5-7-29 Valley Way only left trips collected. As flds seen had stipules lanceolate, curved, 4 mm x 1.5 mm, caducous. See 5-14-29 5-6-29 Passiflora tripartita L. #203 dupl. Fl. Mayflower. Lvs 3 lobed entire St. reddish angled (not 4, seems 5 angled) Pedicels twisted with 2 glands (they are raised so perhaps should be called stalked) about midway, truncate or sub-cate at base. Stipules foliaceous 3/4+ in x 3/2 in, very irregular shaped, subulate tipped Fl practically glabrous. Sepals white inside with pubescent appendage on tube below tip. This seems to be the common sp. in Bermuda varying in color from rose purple to white. Evidently not in B.M.C.P. Prob the same as seen 3-23-29 at Jones Laurel yard. Corona consists of long fleshy filaments (not nearly as long as sepals but more than 1/2 less than 2/3 as long), at their base a short fringe (2) around base of style a still shorter fringe (3) Stalks of ovary basal disk-like ring around it about 1/3 its distance above the base.