376 GRUENBERG AND Gigs: NOTES ON “ BASTARD’? LOGWOOD 
of Haematoxylon campechianum, notwithstanding the slight mor- 
phological differences that distinguish it from the ‘‘ red logwood”’ 
and ‘ blue logwood.” 
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These drawings, which were made from specimens collected by Hon. 
William as near Morant Bay, Jamaica, show all the morphological differences 
that have been observed in the flowers of three varieties : a, “ blue logwood.’’ 4, ‘‘red 
logwood.”’ ¢, ‘‘ bastard logwood.”’ 
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e pistil of the blue is thicker than that in the red and the bastard. “The style in 
the bastard is slightly curv 
n the bastard the stamens are smaller than in the others, and there is less differ- 
ence between them. 
appear from the data at hand that the differences noted exceed the 
ordinary individual variations for the species of Haematoxylon 
the three varieties are shown in FIGURE 2, which was made from 
drawings sent by Mr. Fawcett, of the Jamaica Botanical Gardens. 
That there are species which are not at all distinguishable from 
one another externally, but which vary in their physiological prop- 
