foliage; branches covered with lenticels; branchlets, 
petioles and peduncles stellately pubescent or tomentose. — 
Leaves long-petioled, four to seven inches long, sometimes 
almost as broad, broadly ovate or almost orbicular, acumi- 
nate, finely serrate, pale green and rugose above, glaucous 
and more or less silkily pubescent beneath; base rounded 
or shallowly or deeply cordate; nerves strong, nearly 
straight; petiole one and a half to three inches long; 
stipules linear-oblong, acuminate, one inch long, deciduous. 
Flowers pale primrose, in pendulous peduncled dense- 
flowered racemes one to two and a half inches long; 
pedicels sheathed with deciduous concave oblong bracts 
one-half to three-quarters of an inch long; floral bracts 
shorter. Calyz short, cupular, silky ; lobes ovate-lanceolate. 
Corolla half an inch in diameter; petals distant, spreading, 
spathulate. Stamens five; filaments short, erect, subulate ; 
anthers small, orange-yellow; staminodes ten, columnar, 
with recurved tips. Ovary two-celled; styles two, erect, 
slender, with small recurved stigmatic spathulate tips; 
cells one-ovuled.—J.D.H, — 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, bracts ; 3, calyx, staminodes, and styles ; 4, stamen; 5, stami- 
nodes; 6, vertical section of ovary :—all enlarged. : 
