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a large branching shrub about 12 or 14 feet tall. It first 

 flowered in 1902, and set fruit. The leaves are dark 

 green shining above, glaucous beneath, ob ovate with 

 prominent nerves beneath, on the upper surface are scat- 

 tered roundish elevations, corresponding to glands of a 

 yellowish color beneath. The buds are protected by a 

 white resinous secretion which become, buff yellow when 

 exposed to the air. The flowers are in cymes of four, 

 on short peduncles. Calyx lobes ovate blunt nearly an 

 inch long. Corolla tube thick nearly 2 inches long pale 

 orange green, the lobes oblong obtuse cmarginate reflex- 

 ed, white shaded with green 1 inch long -J inch wide. 

 Stamens long white, anthers oblong rounded pale violet. 

 Style rather thick greenish. Stigma capitate emerald 

 green conic about 3 inches long, ending in the stout style. 



F. auricirfata. Jack. 



This the finest of all the Fagraeas, usually at least 

 starts life as an epiphyte and killing its host becomes a 

 very large branching shrub sometimes as much as 30 

 feet tall. The branches are straggling and flexuous, 

 and armed with short sharp points on either side of the 

 auricles of the leaves. Most of the descriptions of this 

 plant as taken from herbarium specimens much under- 

 rate the size of the leaves and flowers. There seem to be 

 two forms however in one of which the flowers are much 

 smaller than in the other and commoner forms. 



The flowers during life have the following dimensions. 

 Calyx 3 inches long and 2 inches in diameter. Corolla 

 tube 6 inches long and 3 inches across the month, lobes 3 

 inches across, and J inch thick. The whole corolla is 

 eight to 12 inches or more across. The stamens are three 

 inches long, the style four inches with an emerald green 

 ; 6tigma more than half an inch across. 



The flower opens in the early morning and remains 

 open for two days before falling, or turning yellow. It 

 exhales a coarse rather musky ; scent, The stamens have 



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