ally on the nerves, beneath; petiole 1~1} in., but usually 
about 4% in. long; stipules elliptic or ovate, acute or 
acuminate, under +} in. long, about } in. wide, entire or 
occasionally with a few teeth. Male catkins solitary or 
in twos or threes; scales deltoid, cuspidate, hirsute. 
Jruits in clusters of 2-6, often accompanied by abortive 
ones. /nvolucre closely enveloping the nut, produced 
upwards in a tube, densely clothed, especially in the 
lower half, with setose-hispid yellowish-brown hairs ; tube 
1-1} in. long, cylindric or somewhat widened at the 
base, slightly many-striate ; mouth oblique, more or less 
laciniate. Nut (hardly mature) depressed-globose, about 
1 in. long and 4 in. wide, shortly mucronate, very finely 
puberulous. 
Fig. 1, part of male catkin; 2, male flower; 8, female flower; 4, section of 
the base of the involucre, showing nut :—all enlarged. 
