March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species-II 2761 



raately numerously rebranched; bark thin, dirty or yellow- 

 ish brown, smooth or minutely checked longitudinally; twigs 

 lax, very slender, horizontally spreading or subpenriant, 

 terete, the young tips glabrous and turning light brown 

 upon drying. Leaves similarly disposed, coriaceous, shallow- 

 ly curved upon the upper side, yellowish pale green beneath, 

 the young ones yellow but drying black, opposite, copious 

 along all branchlets, glabrous, curing very unequally brown 

 on the 2 sides, the entire margins coarsely wavy and curved 

 upon the nether side at least in the dry state, apex usually 

 abruptly caudate and strongly recurved, base acute to obtuse, 

 yellow on the upper side of the distal end of the petiole, 

 narrowly to broadly elliptic or frequently lanceolate, the 

 larger blades 6 cm long and at least 2.5 cm wide across 

 the middle or a trifle below it; petiole 5 to 7 mm long, 

 flat and grooved along the upper side, glabrous, yellow when 

 dry, arising from thickened nodes or joints; midrib con- 

 spicuous beneath, depressed on the upper side below the 

 middle; lateral nerves 4 to 7, ascending, strict, only faintly 

 visible from the upper side. Inflorescence axillary, the small 

 clusters not exceeding 1 cm in length; stalk suberect, green, 

 glabrous or in the early state pulverulent, subterete, very 

 short branched from the middle, solitary or 2 to 3-cIuster- 

 ed; branchlets umbellately few clustered, subtended by thick 

 glabrous and acute bracts; flowers odorless, violaceus in color; 

 pedicel 2 mm long, glabrous, terete, subtended by a sub- 

 whorl of smooth acuminately pointed bracts less than 1 mm 

 in length; buds obovoidly globose; calyx broadly cup shap- 

 ed at the truncate apex, turbinate at the base, 1.5 mm 

 long, 2 mm wide across the top when in bloom, smooth, 

 thickly coriaceous; petals 4, comparatively membranous, 

 caducous, free, nearly alike, the hyaline margins slightly 

 imbricate when in the bud state, 2 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, 

 broadly rounded at the apex, base truncately constricted, 

 triangularly ovate, glabrous; stamens 8, inserted about the 

 ovary, suberect; filaments subequal, 2 mm long, glabrous, 

 subterete, tapering toward the distal end; anthers 1.25 mm 

 long, attached to the under middle portion, 0.75 mm thick 

 across the rounded apex; cells introrse and occupying the 

 upper one half only, the basal one half extended into a 



