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smoothish or obscurely leuticelled, gray, brown and easily strip- 

 ping on the branches, reddish brown beneath the epidermis; bran- 

 ches widely spreading, the ultimate ones slender and horizontal; 

 green twigs minutely leuticelled, the young portion pulver- 

 ulent. Leaves horizontal or descending, submembranous, 

 usually folded upon the upper deep green surface which is 

 sprinkled with very minute stellate tufts, grayish green and 

 finely tomentose with stellate hairs beneath, alternate, when 

 dry blackish brown above and grayish beneath, ovately ob- 

 long, 15 cm. long by 6 cm. wide across the middle or below 

 it, frequently smaller, truncately rounded or occasionally 

 shollowly cordate, at base gradually tapering to the acute 

 apex; margins very finely serrate except the entire base; petiole 

 I to 1.5 cm. long, stellately pubescent; stipule semilunar, 

 7.5 mm. long, nearly 3 mm. wide, sparsely hairly, veins 

 ascending, 3 from the base, conspicuous and yellowish stel- 

 late, with 3 or 4 extra pairs from above the middle, cross 

 bars quite conspicuous, reticulations obscure. Inflorescence 

 erect or nearly so, from the leaf axils, green except the 

 brown buds, 3 to 5 cm. long, few branched from the mid- 

 dle or above it; peduncle densely covered with the short 

 tawny stellate hairs, so also the secondary divaricate stalks 

 or branches which are subtended by bracts; flowers in small 

 umbellate clusters subtended by an involucre of green bract; 

 bracts unequal in size and in number, averaging 1 cm. long, 

 3 to 5 mm. wide at about the middle, usually running into 

 a fine point, contracted toward the base, lanceolately oblong, 

 covered with a yellowish appressed dense stellate tomentum; 

 calyx segments 4 or 5, thick, early falling, bluntly oblong, 

 toward 8 mm. long, densely and stellately yellowish pubes- 

 cent, 3.5 mm. wide at the middle, finely papilose on the 

 inner side especially al)Ove the middle; petals 5, narrowly 

 oblong, 6 mm. long, 2.25 mm. wide, obtuse at apex, pul- 

 verulent and glandular on the back, bearing on the inner 

 side at the base a dense tuft of hairs; stamens very numerous 

 around the basal portion of the ovary, among dense numerous 

 hairs; filaments glabrous, very unequal in length, averaging 1.5 

 mm. long, thickened at the base; anthers broadly cordate, 0.25 

 mm. thick; ovary densely hairy, ellipsoid, bearing a more or less 

 expanded and rugose stigma. Capsule nearly 1.5 cm. long by 



