Descriprion.—Shrub, twigs adpressed hirsute at length 
becoming glabrous, bark chestnut-brown or tawny. Leaves 
ovate- to oblong-elliptic, base obtuse or rounded, apex acute 
or sharply subacuminate, 2-3 in. long, 1-13 in. broad, dark 
green and sparingly adpressed hirsute but soon becoming 
glabrous above, beneath thinly yellowish or grey hirsute, 
lateral nerves oblique, 6-8 on each side, sunk above, 
prominent beneath, bullate between the nerves; petiole 
short, about 1 lin. long, hairy. Corymbs 20—30- (occasion- 
ally more-) flowered, 14-24 in. across, greyish hirsute with 
adpressed hairs, at the tips of leafy twigs 3-13 in. long, 
rarely longer; pedicels short, reaching 14 lin. in length. 
_feceptacle in flower turbinately hemispheric, laxly pilose 
throughout or almost glabrous above, 14-2 lin. wide. 
Calyx teeth triangular, acute, densely white-ciliate, short. 
Petals rounded ovate, reddish on the back, under 2 lin. 
long, erect in flower. Stamens about 20. Styles 5; carpels 
with somewhat hairy tips. uit red, turbinately or quite 
globose, 4—5 lin. long. 
Fig. 1, a flower bud; 2, flower, perianth partly removed, showing staminal 
insertion and styles; 3 and 4, stamens :—all enlarged. 
