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[[margin]] VII-16-35 [[/margin]] This evening at eight-thirty we found two fresh 
[[margin]] B [[pencil]] B [[/pencil]] [[/margin]] blossoms of the Midnight Beauty. As it only lasts a few hours we had to sketch and examine it at once. Brief description follows:
The flower is nearly nine inches long but curved into a U. It has a spread of nearly six inches with a central cup of four. It is white, with [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] lower part greenish and lower "sepals" reddish, anthers yellow. the corolla is campanulate, with free parts as much as "by 3"; the outer ones narrower and indistinguishable from the lower parts. There appear to be 24 petals, but perhaps 50 of the slender lower part. All [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] seem to be part of the flower base and not at all distinct from it. The stamens are in two groups. One group forms a complete layer, one deep on the inside of the corolla tube and attached to it up to the rim, from which they are free and 1 1/2 inches long. The other group arises deeper in the tube, and they extend upward for different distances forming a large mass with the first group, and extending down into the tube. these latter are from two to three inches long. The ends are all recurved so that the anthers, fastened by the 
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end, hang downwards. There must be at least a hundred stamens. The pistil is a long tube extending the whole length of the flower. It projects 3/4 of an inch above the stamens, where it is divided into eighteen stigmas, 3/4 of an inch long and slender, - white. At the base the pistil opens into a cavity which appears to be filled with a coarse powder. This flower [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] blooms upon the edge of the leaf. 
[[strikethrough]] or [[/strikethrough]] That is, the leaf is long and slender, appearing to be more narrow expansions on the sides of the stem, and the flower grows at some point on the edge of the leaf. [[strikethrough]] & [[/strikethrough]] Only one flower on each leaf. It blooms only at night and is wilted by next morning. It is said to bloom on the full moon, - and night before last was full!
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In A.M. rode up right side of Ferry River. The road would be impassable for a car and I was finally stopped. If this was ever the main road to Spanish Town, it has suffered a lot of change since. I also went a short distance up the rode that turns to the right over the hill. It was in the very worst possible condition. I didn't have time for any collecting.