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Trunk erect, though not very straight. Bark dark 

 brown, pretty smooth. Branches numerous, 

 spreading in every direction, so as to form a most 

 elegant shady head. 

 La eves alternate, abruptly feathered, sessile, gene- 

 rally more than a foot long ; when young pendu- 

 lous and coloured. 

 Leaflets opposite, from four to six pair, the low- 

 ermost broad lanced, the upper lanced; smooth, 

 shining, firm, a little waved, from four to eight 

 inches long. 

 Petiole common, round and smooth. 

 Stipule axillary, solitary ; in fact a process from 

 the base of the common petiole, as in many of the 

 grasses and monandrists, &c. 

 Umbels terminal and axillary,- between the stipule 

 and branchlet, globular, crowded, subsessile, erect. 

 Bracts, a small hearted one under each divison of 



the umbel. 

 Peduncle and pedicels smooth, coloured. 

 Flowers very numerous, pretty large; when they 

 first expand, they are of a beautiful orange colour, 

 gradually changing to red, forming a variety of 

 lovely shades; fragrant during the night. 

 Calix perianth, below two-leaved, leaflets small, 

 nearly opposte, coloured, hearted, bracte-like, 

 marking the termination of the pedicel, or begin- 

 ning of the tube of the corol. 

 Corol one-petal'd, funnel-form; tube slightly in- 

 curved, firm and fleshy, tapering towards the 

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