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terminal lobe well separated from a broad and more than 

 twice larger lower part itself scarcely 2-lobed, such leaves 

 being of round-ovate general circumscription above a sub- 

 truncate broad base, the whole 1/i to 2 inches long, 1 to 1^ 

 inches across at and below the middle ; uncut leaves mostly 

 somewhat deltoid-ovate, truncate at base, about 2 inches long, 

 inches wide above the base, many leaves notably below 

 these dimensions, the texture of all rather firm-membranaceous, 

 color neither vivid nor exactly dull though light green, upper 

 face of all with a few slender hirsutulous hairs on the veins 

 only, the general area rough with many low but hairless 

 muriculate points and scattered hair-tipped pustulations, lower 

 face much more rough to the touch by many hispid short hairs 

 on all veins and veinlets, as well as copious smaller and 

 shorter ones on the general area; serrature of all sharp, but 

 unequal: fruit unknown. 



Of well marked foliar aspect and character, collected in 

 June, 1901. by Mr. Vernon Bailey, in the Chisas Mountains, 

 Texas. 



MoRus VITIFOI.IA. Twigs of the season somewhat villous- 

 puberulent, traces of this indument obvious on branches of 

 two or three years : petioles about % inch long more villous : 

 leaves much diversified in cut on the same branch, but those 

 of the most vigorous sterile branches pronouncedly and 

 elegantly somewhat 5-lobed, the terminal lobe almost the 

 largest, somewhat rhombic-ovate, separated from the low^er 

 limb by narrowly oval almost closed sinuses, the lower limb 

 of two lobes each with a short sinus below the middle suggest- 

 ing its division into two ; other strongly lobed leaves simply 

 but deeply 3-lobed, with narrow but more open sinuses ; 

 uncut leaves less numerous, very broadly ovate, but at base 

 truncate ; dimensions from lyi hy VA \n the simpler form, to 

 2 X by 1/4 in the strongly lobed forms; texture of all rather 

 firm-membranaceous, color rather vivid light-green; upper 

 face low-tuberculate under a lens, and smooth to the touch or 

 harsh according to the presence or absence of sharp hair tips. 



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