CALISAYA BARK. 
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twice the thickness of the human body. The head is leafy, 
mostly elevated above the other trees of the woods. 
Bark of the trunk thick. The periderm thicker than in 
almost all the species of the genus, easily separated from 
the liber, and when torn off, disclosing marks or impressions 
corresponding with those of the exterior, as the bark is 
marked by parallel vertical clefts, or transverse fissures more 
or less annular. It is whitish, or may be black. The peri- 
derm of the branches is whitened, or diversely marbled 
with the fronds of lichens; it is marked with clefts more 
sinuate, and fissures which are narrower, some of them are 
annular and distant, while others are shorter and nearer to 
each other. Finally, upon the branches, the bark is thin, 
smooth, and brownish-olive, or blackish. 
The leaves are lanceolate-obovate, about 8 to 15 centime- 
tres (3 to 5 inches, nearly) long, and 3 to 6 cm. (1 to 2 
inches) broad ; they are acute at base, gently attenuate, soft, 
flat, very glabrous above, beautified with a velvety gloss 
connected with the prominent cells of the epidermis, and pale 
green ; the veins being pale and little conspicuous ; on the 
under surface they are light emerald green, smooth and scro- 
biculated in the axils of the veins; the depressions are 
scarcely perceptible on the upper surface. The petiole is 1 
cm. (nearly i inch) long, green, more rarely rubescent, as is 
the rib. Upon the young tree, the leaves are often a little 
more acute, of a more lively green, very velvety, the rib 
and petiole roseate, the nerves above being milk white, and 
the limb very often beset with roseo-sanguineous spots, the 
lower part of the pagina being more or less purpurescent. 
Stipules oblong, obtuse, longer than or sub-equal to the 
petioles, very glabrous, sparingly beset on the inner base 
with glands. 
Flowering panicle ovate, or sub-corymbose, scarcely 
multiflowered, peduncles and pedicles (2 to 4 millimetres) 
(f to H inches) long, pubescent. Bracts lanceolate. 
Calyx pubescent, limb crateriform, teeth short, triangular. 
