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Laureola sempervircns americana. Pluk. 



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Laurel-leaved Cestruiii. Miller. 

 C. filamentis edentatis, corollse tube fill- 

 formi : ladniis acuminatis, iloribus sub- 

 raccmosis, pedunculis axillaribus brevls- 

 simis. foliis ovatis acuminatis. M, 



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HorL Kew. 



JasminoideSj &c. flore virescente noctu 



odoratissimo. Bill. Elth 1 83. 1. 1 5 J 

 Night-smelling Cestrum. Miller. 



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Lady of the Night.* 



* It is impossible to doubt the idexUlty of the Lady of the 

 Night of Barbados with the Cestrum nocturnum ; yet the defi- 

 nition fnvenby Willdenow, Aiton.and others, of C. vesperlinum, 

 i e. '' C, fdimentis edcntatis^ tubo filiformi, pedunculis brevis- 

 simis/' is more descriptive of this "night-smelling- Cestrum*' 

 than that affixed to C. nocturnum, which represents it " pedun- 

 culis subracemosis folio tequantibus." Martyn, between his 

 respect for authority and his personal experience, has fallen into 

 a stranL'-e inconsistency. He follows the definition of Linntcus, 

 "peduncles subracemed, equal to the leaf;'' yet he describes 

 the leaves and inflorescence as he actually saw them : the leaves 



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as ** near four inches long," and the flowers as " standing on 



short peduncles." Those peduncles cannot surely be short, 

 which are equal to a leaf near four inches long.— See GanL 

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