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Cestrum venenatum

a shrub or a gnarled tree, up to 14 ft. high, glabrous (except sometimes the inflorescence); young branches compressed or ancipitous, smooth; leaves mostly ovate or elliptic, sometimes oblong, rarely lanceolate, acute and usually mucronulate, rarely obtuse, acute at the base, 1 1/2–4 in. long, 3/4–2 in. broad, pale or olive-green when dry, somewhat shining above or on both sides; secondary nerves 6–10 on each side, often with similar interposed tertiary nerves, oblique, parallel, prominent on both sides; veins distinct or obscure; petiole stout, 1–2 lin. long; clusters glabrous or puberulous, sessile or subsessile, usually many-flowered; bracts ovate, brown or the upper pinkish; calyx glabrous or puberulous, 1 lin. long; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, distinctly to very obscurely ciliolate; corolla white to pink, sweet-scented; tube 3 1/2–5 lin. long, puberulous or glabrous without, hairy within; lobes broad-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, somewhat over 1 lin. long; anthers 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; stigma short, obtuse, conic; berry globose, 1 in. in diam., purplish-black; seeds semi-globose or semi-ellipsoid, 4–6 lin. long. null