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RBami vetustiores glabrati subteretes verrucnlosi; Tamuld 
pärce, nascentes: dense birtelli, pilis pallide fuseis multi- 
artieulatis. Petiolö hasi dilatata nodum marginantes antice 
eaualienlati praesertim dorso hirtelli 11/, —Y, cent. longi. 
Folia ramorum in universum minora, ramulorum ovata, 
ovato-oblouga vel rarins ellıptieo-oblonga, reeia, pierum- 
que leriter inaequilatera, apice attennato vix snbacuminate 
pleromgne obtnsiusenla, basi in fere omnibns aequali leviter 
subcordalim excisa vel saltem rotundata, 11 — 161/, cent. 
todga, 5 — 7 pleramigne 7 lata, snpra satarate viridia niti- 
da et nervo medio versus basin snleata, snbtns pallide snb- 
glanca fusceseentia parumper nitida, in 'nervo costis venulis- 
que appresse hirtella; costulae utringne 4-—- 6, gqnaram ink- 
mae tenues e basi, 3 reliquae supra basin, summa ad 1, 
vet %/, fere alt, a hasi liberae, fortiores adscendentes (in A, 
diospyrifolia altius distributae sant), summa per Anastomo- 
ses ad apicem.continuata, omnes anastomosibus ei venulis e 
nervo medio snrsnm ortis junetae. Stipula oppositifolia 
ovata, convoluta memhranacea dorso hirtella %, — 1 ceut. 
longa, Pedunculö 1, cent, eirciter longi sensim glabreseen- 
tes. Amenta 6—T cent. Jonga rectiuscola, Aorentia sub- 
erecta, peunam ecolumbivam erassa, baccifera cerassiora. 
Flores cirenlariter dispositi.  Bracteae pedicellato - peltatae 
subinflexae, vertieis area semicirenlari nndae in sicco fascae, 
marginibas pilis fuseis villosae. Ovarium obovato - cuneatum 
a lateribns compressam snbpnberulum, Stigmata 3 breria. 
Stamina? Antherae ovato- reniformes biloenlares. Baccae 
bracteas superantes obpyramidatae tetra- vel trigonae, vel a 
Jateribns vompressae, verlice concavo -umbilicatae hirtellae. 
38. Artanthe (Rudula) opulifolia n. sp. Foliis men- 
branaceis pellucido-punctatis subcorcoloribus et opacis, sub- 
tus in nervig tenerrime puherulis elliptieis pleramgse aegui- 
lateris abrupte hrevissime et fatiuscnie acuminads, basi 
