mā.kā.hala
n. Three shrubs in the tomato family:
1. wild tobacco or paka (Nicotiana gluaca), from South America, with long, narrow, yellow flowers and ovate, blue-green leaves;
2. day cestrum (Cestrum diurnum), from the West Indies, with small, white, tubular flowers, fragrant by day; oval leaves; black berries;
3. orange cestrum (Cestrum aurantiacum), from Guatemala, with longer, narrow, orange flowers. (Neal 750–1.) On Niʻihau, Tecomaria capensis, cape honeysuckle; cf. ʻiʻwi haole.