CAROLINA CYRILLA. 
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brown colour, in layers of about a line in thickness, of a 
soft, elastic, fibrous and friable consistence, almost like 
Agaric, and may be used like that substance as a styptic. 
The tree presents a widely spreading bright green sum- 
mit, and the branches come out in a circular order, present- 
ing numerous slender twigs. The leaves are alternate, 
rather narrow and lanceolate, very entire, sometimes oblan- 
ceolate, nearly perennial. The flowers are small but very 
numerous, disposed in slender pendulous racemes, producing 
a very graceful effect, and these racemes are clustered at 
the extremities of the branches of the former season. The 
petals are three times as long as the calyx, inserted with- 
out claws at the base of the germ, and have each an oblong, 
convex elevation or thickening of the petal on the lower 
part. The filaments alternate with the petals, and are 
somewhat shorter. The anthers are incumbent, cordate, 
2-celled, bifid at the base. Style short, the stigmas 2 and 
obtuse. The pericarp of an oval form, never opens, is 2- 
celled, the sides filled with a dry spongy granular pulp, 
and with a single ovate seed in each cell. 
Plate LXXIV. 
A branch of the natural size. a. The flower enlarged. 
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