hae 
swith a slight mucro, more or less narrowed to the base, 
margin recurved, entire or here and there faintly glandular 
serrate, 3-21 in. long, 4-5 lin. wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous 
above except when young and somewhat polished, beneath 
clothed with a grey tomentum which becomes lax and 
almost disappears with age; lateral nerves slender, about 
8 on each side, impressed above; petioles 2—5 lin. long. 
Corymbs rather few-flowered, shorter than the leaves; 
peduncles and pedicels grey pubescent. Leceptacle turbinate, 
grey pubescent. Sepals wide ovate, persistently pubescent, 
8 lin. long. Petals white, suborbicular. Stamens about 20. 
Carpels and styles 5. Fruit depressed-globose, orange- 
yellow, glabrate, 3-4 lin. long, tipped by the persistent 
calyx lobes; pyrenes adnate dorsally in their lower portion 
to the receptacle, otherwise free from though surrounded by 
the receptacle. 
Fig. 1, part of a leaf; 2, a flower; 3, calyx, partly removed, showing stamens 
and pistil; 4, a carpel; 5, fruit in vertical section, showing pyrenes; 6, a 
pyrene; 7, the same in vertical section; 8, seed :—all enlarged. 
