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The wood becomes more compact as it grows older, and is then 
brownish, occasionally streaked black here and there. The pith 
becomes absorbed as the wood gets older, and leaves an irregular 
central canal, often large enough to admit of a crow-quill. The bark 
at this time has a brown suberous coating, much cracked here and 
there. 
Srrputes.—Absent; there are several glands in the axilla of the 
leaf instead. 
LEAVES.—Alternate, linear te narrow-linear ; 2—5 inches long, + 
inch at the broadest part, glabrous, coriaceous, glossy ; usually veinless ; 
in some, the primary veins which arise from the mid-rib are faintly 
prominent ; acuminate at both ends, decurrent in a very short petiole, 
or almost sessile ; margin revolute, entire. 
FLOWERS.—Large, bright yellow, 2—3 inches long, streaked on 
the dorsum, with lanceolate twisted greenish stripes from the tube to the 
distal end of the corolla, terminating in a point. 3 
INFLORESCENCE.—Terminal or lateral cymes. Peduncles much 
shorter than the leaves, rounded, glabrous, about a line in thickness, 
AistivaTion.—Contorto-imbricate, the twist being to the right. 
CaLyx.—5-parted; sepals distinct and persistent ; lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate ; glabrous, deep green externally, yellowish or light green 
internally ; acuminate ; 4 the length of the corolla-tube, or about 3 
lines long. 
CoroLta.—Deciduous, falling off the day after the opening of 
the flower ; glabrous externally throughout, and internally as far 
‘as the throat of the tube, below which it is thickly covered with 
fine white hairs. The tubular portion is darker yellow inside, 
greener outside. 
The form of the corolla is said to be hypocrateriform by De Candolle, 
as also by Mr. A, Smith in his article on this plant in “ Lindley and 
Moore’s Treasury of Botany.”’ But the tube in this flower is neither 
long nor slender, nor is the limb, that is, the terminal lobes of the 
corolla, flat, The form of the flower is more campanulate than 
anything else. The corolla may be divided into three parts :— 
(1) a tube about 3—3? inch long, widest at its insertion on the 
calyx ; about 2 lines in diameter, narrowest at its mid-part, and 
