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64. SOLAXACEJS. 
B. Orthembryonece. 
t+fTribe III. Cestrece. 
ttf 6 . Cestrtjae L. 
ttfl- C. yespertixum L. Boas Noites or Bellas Noites. 
Arboreous or arborescent copiously leafy; branches round 
straight stiff subvirgate striolate shining even smooth pale ash- 
coloured, the upper arcuately subdeclining ; 1 . solitary shortly 
stalked subcartilagineo- or chartaceo-membranous, lanceolate 
or lanceolate-oblong acuminate subundulate entire, subcarinate 
and recurvedly spreading or drooping, smooth shining dark gr. 
with paler nerves and midrib ; B. pale yellowish gr., opening 
and fragrant at night, sessile in short axillary erect shortly 
stalked leaf} T -bracteate fasciculato-capitate interrupted spikes 
much shorter than the 1 . ; cal. short obsoletelv or obscurely 
toothed, the teeth or lobes indistinct abbreviate subobtuse and 
like the tube, bracts, rachis or whole spike more or less rusty- 
tomentulose ; cor.-tube linear cylindric slender filiform, lobes 
erect with indexed margins by day, reflexed with margins re- 
volute by night ; antli. subsessile, their fil. edentate attached to 
cor.-tube nearly to their top ; fr — Linn. Mant. 
alt. 206 ; Murr. Linn. Syst. Veg. (ed. 13) 190 ; Murr. Comm. 
Nov. Gott. v. 41, t. 8 ; Herit. Stirp. 72; Pers. i. 230; Jacq. 
Hort. Schonbr. iii. 43, t. 328; "Willd. Sp. i. 1055; Spr. i. 673; 
Dun. in DC. xiii. 1. 661; Griseb. W. I. FI. 443. C.jamaicense 
Lam. Diet. i. 687 (excl. /3). (i C. confertum Mill. Diet. no. 5.” 
C. nocturnum (3. pubescens and C. Bella-sombra Dun. in DC. 1. c. 
632. Ixora altemifolia &c. Jacq. Amer. 16, 1. 177. f. 8 . — Small 
tr. or arborescent shr. per. evergreen Mad. reg. 1, §. In and 
about Funchal, Machico, &c. June-Sept. — A tr. 20-30 ft. high 
normally, with a bushy head and distinct trunk as thick as a 
man’s leg or thigh, but mostly in Mad. lopped and cut back 
into a shr. 10-15 ft. high, and so used as a fence or screen in 
gardens, growing readily and rapidly from slips or branches, 
and when lopped or cut, throwing out strong vigorous rank 
stout elongated straight or virgate large-leaved rapid-growing 
shoots. M hole pi. smooth except the cymes and buds or quite 
young tips of the shoots and petioles, which are clothed with a 
pale rust-coloured short close furry tommtum. St. and older 
branches with a pale ash-coloured smooth and even bark, the 
latter subfragile woody evenly rounded, stiffly straight subvir- 
gate shining-whitish or olive-grey finely striolate and lenti- 
celled ; the uppermost with subdistichous (at first straight, 
then) slightly arcuato-declining side branchletsj their 1 . smaller 
(I 5 — in. long) narrower. and more strongly recurved and cari- 
