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gray or brown surfaces by the numerous elongited excres- 

 cences running longitudinally, otherwise yellowish; branchlets 

 numerous, spreading and with suberect tips, curved or 

 crooked, glabrous, with a shinning yollowish brown back, 

 angular in the dry state. Leaves opposite, mostly horizontal, 

 nearly flat, rigidly recurved, acuminate at the apex, obtuse 

 or cuneate toward tbe base, lighter green beneath,, gla- 

 brous, curing dull brown on both sides, very unequal in 

 size, elongated, varying from 6 cm to 2.5 dm long by 3 

 to 8 cm wide across the middle or widest portion, edges 

 entire but conspicuously rugulose or wavy; petiole 1.5 to 4 

 cm long, somewhat flattened and decurrent toward the lam- 

 ina end, at the base provided with an interaxillary plate 

 less than 1 cm wide and about one half as high, all gla- 

 brous, leaving large scars after falling; midrib stout and 

 ridged beneath, plane or slightly raised on the upper side; 

 the lateral nerves about 15 pairs more or less, strict, sub- 

 divaricate, scarcely evident. Flowers erect, terminal, 1 to 3- 

 clustered, generally subtended by a small pair of leaves; 

 pedicels 1 to 2 cm long, subterete, 7.5 mm wide, likewise 

 glabrous; calyx green, at the base subtended by a pair .of 

 1.5 cm long oblong bracts, angular, 3 cm long, erect or 

 ultimately spreading, united at the base, the edges tightly 

 imbricate; segments 5, oblong, rounded or obtusely rounded 

 at the apex, the margins and apical portion much thinner, 

 the dorsal median portion strongly bulged or ridged and 

 on the hollow inner side rilled with latex, surface smooth 

 especially on the lighter green or brown fresh or dry states, 

 persistent; corolla bud greenish, solidly imbricated, glutinous 

 toward the base; corolla 15 to 18 cm long, tubular, yel- 

 lowish, fleshy, glabrous, the basal 3 cm much constricted, 

 the middle tubular portion 1.5 cm thick though gradually 

 widened toward the lobed portion which is 5 to 8 cm long 

 and 1 dm wide across the spreading tip; lobes 5, white, 

 strongly imbricate, obovately elongated, 1 cm wide at the 

 base and at least 2.5 cm wide toward the top, broadly 

 rounded at the apex and usually notched or 2 to 3-irreg- 

 ularly toothed; stamens creamy white, inserted at about 

 the middle of the corolla tube, not exceeding the lobes; 

 filaments 4 to 6 cm longer, compressed, glabrous, pointed 



