"Exstipulate" Quotes from Famous Books
... above high-water mark, was a beautiful spreading, lactescent tree, about twenty feet high, belonging to the natural order Apocyneae, with alternate, exstipulate, broad, lanceolate leaves, six to eight inches long, and producing terminal spikes of large, white, sweet-scented flowers, resembling those of the white Nerium oleander, but much larger. I also met with a tree about twenty feet high belonging to the natural ... — Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray |