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ed and occasionally oblique and somewhat inequilateral base, 

 otherwise very finely serrate, the serratures usually ciliate 

 pointed, gradually tapering to the aaute to acuminate apex, 

 curing greenish to brown on the upper side, diverse in size, 

 blades 3 to 5 cm long by 1 to 2 cm wide below the mid- 

 dle, frequently much smaller and merely bract like; petioles 

 very slender, from 1 to 3 cm long, stramineus when dry 

 and with brown very short more or less glandular tipped 

 hairs, striate along the upper side; midrib practically straight, 

 more evident from beneath, with 2 to 3 lateral pairs of 

 nerves arising from below the middle and much ascendingly 

 curved, cross bars very minute under a lens, that portion 

 or region along the veins green, otherwise lilacinus beneath 

 and purplish tinged above. Inflorescence terminal, erect, a 

 few cm long; fruiting peduncle 2 cm long, bearing few to 

 several capsules toward the distal end, rather stout, angular, 

 straw brown, shining and glabrous, solitary or 2 to 3 -.clus- 

 tered, subtended at the base by a pair or more of leaves; 

 odorless flowers divaricate, usually pointing down hill, coming 

 into anthesis one by one and of short duration only; pedicel 

 of the flower not exceeding 5 mm in length, twice as long 

 in the fruit and somewhat thickened, glabrate, strict; calyx as 

 long as the flowering pedicel, striate and somewhat 3-an- 

 gular, 2.5 mm wide across the top or widest portion, 3- 

 segmented, green, the midvein of each of the segmented 

 portion rather prominent and becoming ridged when old; 

 segments ascending, 1 mm wide at the base, 1 mm long, 

 glabrous, green, membranous, triangular, terminated in the 

 fruiting state; buds fusiform, slenderly pointed, the petals 

 imbricate, widely spreading in anthesis, caducous, 7 mm 

 long, one half as wide across the base, very thin and al- 

 most transparent, 3, ovate though slenderly tapering into an 

 acuminate point, glabrous, pulverulent on the conspicuous 

 midvein on the dorsal side, otherwise glabrous, with quite 

 evident lateral nerves, alternating with the calyx segments; 

 stamens alternating with the petals and as many; filaments 

 compressed, 5 mm long, glabrous, erect; anthers inverted 

 in the bud state, erect in anthesis, 5 mm long, 1.75 nam 

 wide across the auriculately lobed base, basifixed, slenderly 

 pointed from the base to the apical pores; style glabrate, 



