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slender twigs green, heavy, usually descending, even the 

 young portions glabrous. Leaves also descending, alternate, 

 coriaceous, smooth and shining deep green on the upper 

 strongly folded surface, the short acute to subacuminate point 

 recurved, base broadly obtuse, margins entire although ob- 

 scurely wavy and slightly involute in the dry state, oblong- 

 ish, curing shining brown on the upper side and duller so 

 beneath, the larger blades 15 cm long and 6 cm wide at 

 the middle, occasionally longer and broader, frequently much 

 smaller, glabrous; midrib prominent, flat on the upper leaf 

 surface; lateral nerves yellowish green, 6 to 8 pairs, ascend- 

 ingly curved especially toward their tips, the cross bars and 

 fine reticulations obscure yet equally visible on both sides; 

 petiole 1.5 cm long, glabrous, channeled along the upper 

 side which at the base of the lamina is usually provided 

 with a vestige of glands. Inflorescence profusely paniculate, 

 terminal or from the leaf axils, all the stalks glabrous and 

 green, 5 to 15 cm long, branched from below the middle; 

 branches alternate, unbranched, when young only sparsely 

 and minutely scurfy, subtended by blunt bracts; buds and 

 flowers creamy yellow, alternatingly scattered, subtended by 

 bracteoles, deciduous and sweetly fragrant; pedicels none or 

 very short and thick, subtended by very sharply acuminate 

 rigid bracts; calyx cup shaped, the basal one third thick 

 and united, glabrous especially on the inner side, eglandular; 

 segments 5, rotundly oblong, rounded at the apex, imbri- 

 cate, the free portion 1.5 mm long by 1 mm wide, the 

 entire margins quite thin, the middle portion thick; petals 

 in the bud state ovoidly globose, imbricate, 3.5 mm long 

 below the middle united, glabrous and without glands; seg- 

 ments 5, yellow, elliptic, leathery, 2 mm long by 1.5 mm 

 wide, rotately spreading in anthesis, concave upon the lower 

 side, obtusely rounded at the apex; stamens 5, opposite 

 the petals and inserted upon them a trifle below the mid- 

 dle, filaments very short and glabrous; anthers bright yellow, 

 without glands, 1 mm long, somewhat flattened, ovate from 

 the side view, basifixed, erect; pistils 2.5 mm long, green- 

 ish yellow, glabrous, the ellipsoid ovary gradually extending 

 into the very short and thick style which bears the stigmatic 

 portion across its truncate tip; fruit ovoidly ellipsoid, 2.5 



