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terete, rigid, covered with brown bark; ultimate twigs short, 

 more or less angular, brown or when old grayish brown 

 scurfy. Leaves ascendingly spreading, alternately crooked 

 toward the distal end of the twigs, diverse in size but not 

 in shaped, the larger blades 7 cm. long and 4 cm. wide 

 above the middle, obtusely rounded or subcuneate at the 

 base, rigidly chartaceous, the basal portion entire, otherwise 

 finely serrate or serrately dentate, the tips of the serratures 

 usually callous, hoary stellate on the darker green upper 

 side which ultimately wears glabrous, lucid on the upper 

 side, the young nether surface nearly fulvus short tomentose, 

 in the old leaves cinereous on the same side, margins usually 

 curved upon the lower side; midrib very bold beneath and 

 grooved above, beneath similar in vestiture and in its change 

 of color from the young to the old conditions; lateral nerves 

 9 to 11 pairs, also bold beneath and impressed above, as- 

 cending, slightly curved, tips rather prominently united near 

 the margins, cross bars conspicuous beneath only; petiole 1 

 to 1.5 cm. long, very thick, upper side flattened and shal- 

 lowly grooved, cinereously scurfy but finally glabrous and 

 very rough otherwise. Inflorescence terminal, exceeding the 

 foliage, averaging about 1 dm. long, composed of sev^er.il 

 alternatingly scattered spikes; spikes less in length, fulvus 

 scurfy or stellately hairy, flower bearing from below the 

 middle; pedicels divaricate or recurved, 5 mm. long or 

 shorter, densely provided with hairs or scales, usually sub- 

 tended by minute caducous bracts; calyx suberect, united at 

 the base, 5 mm. long, the 5 segments imbricate, the inner 

 ones a trifle smaller, truncate at base, triangularly oblong, 

 2.5 mm. wide at widest portion, rather thick and rigid, 

 crisply hirsute on the outer side; petals glabrous, imbricately 

 overlapping in the younger state, united toward the base, 6 

 mm. long, the expanded portion nearly as broad, narrowed 

 toward the base into a broad claw, apex truncately rounded, 

 veiny, apical margin more or less rugose; stamens normally 

 10, inserted upon the basal portion of the short corolla tube; 

 filaments 3 mm. long, much expanded and flattened at the 

 adnate base, glabrous; anther basifixed, 1 mm. long, truncate 

 at both ends, the apical portion patted and the cells dehiscing 

 laterally from the apex downwards; ovary flattish globose, 



