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RAY Leaves curing light brown, coriaceous, ascending, profuse to- 
1 ward the ends of the branchlets, the younger ones opposite, 
| the older ones subopposite, ascending, variable in size, the 
.| -smaller ones 3 em long and lanceolate, the basal or larger 
"|| ones 1 dm long by 3.75 em wide across the middle, oblong, 
the entire margins subinvolute in the dry state, gradually 
extended into the acute to acuminate apex, base obtuse in 
the larger and acute in the smaller blades, glabrate above, 
cinereous beneath especially along the nerves, ultimately be- 
coming glabrate, the nether side minutely black punctate 
under a lens; petiole 5 to 15 mm long, cinereous in the 
early state, grooved along the upper side; midvein canicu- 
late from the upper side, prominent and cinereously cover- 
ed beneath; lateral nerves 6 to 9 pairs, strongly ascending 
and curved, the middle pair or pairs extending clear to 
the apex and united with the upper less prominent 2 to 3 
pairs of nerves, reticulations faint. Flowers odorless, subpen- 
dant, usually solitary from the leaf axils, persistent; pedicel 
6 mm long, twice as long in the fruiting state, densely 
cinereously pubescent in the bud state and in anthesis, otherwise 
glaucous green, usually recurved; calyx campanulate, 5 mm 
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' high and 4 mm thick, short canescent, subtended by a pair 
} of acute closely appressed bract-like teeth, shallowly con- 
1 stricted below the rim, terminated by 4 segments; sepals near- 
| ly 4 mm wide, less in length, leathery, similarly canescent 
$ on both sides, more or less pellucid punctate, inserted upon 
| a fleshy torus, truncately rounded at apex; petals rose red 
or pinkish white when old, becoming easily detached, the 
4 larger ones alternating with the sepals, the inner two or 
three less than one half as large, broadly elliptic, parallel 
veined and obscurely nerved, the outer occasionally finely 
7 ciliate along the entire margins, the marginal portion of the 
| inner ones more or less rolled inwardiy and finely rugu- 
4 lose, glandular on the back; stamens many, spreading, 3 mm 
| long more or less, the red filaments glabrous and thread- 
| like; anther light yellow, cordately elliptic, 0.5 mm long, basi- 
| : fixed; style 4 to 5 mm long, thick, terete, glabrous, tip- 
| ped at the apex; stigma globose, 0.75 mm thick, black in the dry 
state, appearing obscurely plaited. Fruit indehiscent, several 
celled, each cel] with several seeds; seeds densely glandular, 
