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nate or subconduplicate like those of a Peach- or Almond-tr. 
(Amygdalns persica or A. communis L.) than on the rest of the 
tr. Whole pi. strongly and rankly fetid like Elder ( Sambucus 
nigra L.) when cut, bruised or broken, and rank or coarse in 
habit, growth and foliage ; its ready, vigorous and rapid growth 
from slips or branches accounting doubtless for its long-con- 
tinued preservation in Mad. rather than the line nocturnal fra- 
grance of its otherwise unattractive fl. Petioles short 4-6 lines 
long, light gr., channelled above, whilst young furfuraceo-pu- 
berulous or mealy-tomentulose. L. dark shining gr. above, 
paler but full shining gr. beneath, membranous and fast wither- 
ing, yet stiffish or cliartaceous but not at all coriaceous, lanceo- 
late-oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, subobtuse or sub- 
acute and mostly equal at the base, widely channelled or 
subconduplicate, the 2 sides rising at an angle from the midrib 
all their length above, carinate beneath, their upper half 
recurved; 3-7 in. long, 1-2| broad, the midrib and simple 
equidistant and parallel primary side-nerves pale or light gr., 
impressed above, prominent beneath, the nerves arcuately 
ascending, 7 or 8 in the smaller upper 1., 12 or 13 in the larger, 
on each side the midrib. Petioles of the young fresh-growing 
shoots or branches mostly pseudo-stipulate by the premature 
development of two minute 1. from their axillary buds; but 
these very soon fall off. Fl. small inconspicuous very numerous 
,pale yellowish gr., nearly or quite scentless by day but deli- 
ciously fragrant at night from sunset to sunrise, in lateral axil- 
lary short erect leafy-bracteate shortly stalked subcorvmbose or 
fastigiato-capitate interrupted spikes mostly about half the 
length of the 1. or (with their ped.) 1-2 in. long, never longer 
than the 1. ; each terminating in a sort of condensed umbel, 
head or fascicle of crowded aggregate agglomerate cymules or 
of congested single sessile fl., with 2 or 3 detached scattered 
solitary or binate sessile fl. below down the ped. or rachis, each 
like the terminal head or tuft subtended by a small lanceolate 
deciduous gr. leafy br. These spikes are sometimes slightly com- 
pound or paniculato-corymbosely branched, and sometimes re- 
duced to small sessile fascicles of few or 2 or 3 or even single soli- 
tary fl., towards or at the ends of the branches or on the short 
side-spurs or knobs or leafy branclilets on the old wood below 
the 1. Fl. in bud at first shortly ovoidal-oblong truncate and 
often blackish, tipped with w. tomentum , before the cor. appears ; 
the latter before expansion of the limb slenderly subclavate. 
Fl. all nearly or quite sessile, articulated on the rachis, with 
either a single petiolate gr. leafy lanceolate br., or one or more 
sessile rusty-tomentulose membranous minute scale-like close- 
pressed inconspicuous ovate or ovato-lanceolate caducous bract- 
lets at their base. Ped., rachis, bractlets and cal. more or less 
furfuraceo-puberulous or mealy-tomentulose .pale rusty, the 
