Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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"5-6-29 Cestrum nocturnum L p1061 Red Mayflower. Called "Night-flowering Jasmine" by Mrs Cox. St (upper) 2in. Light green, not angular tho a little brittle; V not perfectly straight; hts 7 x 1/2-1 3/4 lbs to 1/2 in. lanceolate, acute or acuminate, entire, tapering or Petioles 5mm in len. rounded at base; Fls "yellowish, very fragrant at night" in short axillary panicles. Floral pedicls on pedicels 1/4 in or less. Calyx tubular 1/2in Calyx 5-lobed (the teeth varying relative size, incl diff). Each fl subtended by narrow bract about the length of calyx. Corolla tube in bud 1/2 in, shortly 5-lobed, the lobes in bud valvate with the edges folded inward at rt. angles. Stamens 5 alt with corolla lobes, inserted on tube; each filament having a little upward projecting tooth or inside at opposite where the filament become free of corolla. (filaments very strong but aduate to corolla to base) Anthers very definitely tuberculate (20%). Stigma capitate under than the slender style. Ovary 2-celled. Pos. C. Parqui: 1/2 lbs in B.M. CP c61. This fls has lobed from outside. 5-10-29 Same obsrv-in bud at Southlands upper quarry. f:9-29 "Musican Sunflower" by Wollon Smith & Thos. Southlands F.R. A shrub or half perennial to 7-10 ft. Very frequent in garden "Floryellons." St. glandulosa dotted; densely white hairy. Hairs spreading & woolly, rooted having at globose. Lvs alt with large flaccuous stipules. Petiols 3/4 in high x 1 in thick, dense more less slimy but flattened at base, attached partly on petiole & partly on st.