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branched and twigs nodulose, green, terete, when young tawny 
puberulent, soon becoming glabrous; old bark smooth, brown- 
ish; woody tissue soft, greenish toward the center, odorless and 
tasteless. Leaves alternate or opposed by leaf-like bracts, mem- 
branous, curing unequally dark or dull green on its sides, 
much paler beneath, apex acuminate or caudate, slightly 
inequilateral toward the obtuse or decurrrently acute base, en-. 
tire or along the sides shallowly crenately apiculate, glabrous 
except the nerves beneath, the larger ones 1.5 dm long and 
5 em across at the middle, the smallest or bract-like leaves 
1 em long and broadly lanceolate, some of the middle sized 
ones elliptic, the largest oblong; midvein glabrous above, dull 
brown puiverulent beneath; lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, the 
smallest lamina only few nerved, ascendingly curved from 
the base, anastomosing, reticulations quite evident from be- 
neath; petiole 5 mm long, dark fulvus hairy. Fiowers odor- 
less, ascending, leaf opposed or axillary; peduncle few cm 
long, ascending, strict, ultimately glabrous, occasionally very few 
and shortly rebranched, pedicels pubescent at first and usually 
subtended by bracteoles. Fruits usually upon leafless branchlets, 
dark green, erect, 2.6 em long, subtended by the persistent 
calyx segments, angular and constricted below the middle, 
loculicidally dehiscent from the sharply pointed apex, the 
upper one half subterete, creased along the septate sides, 
2-celled, 4-seeded; the seeds flat, suborbicular, 5 mm across, 
inserted in the axils of the sharply pointed and upwardly 
curved partition or placenta projections; calyx 8 mm long, 
- the basal 2 mm united, glabrous except the pulverulent me- 
dian dorsal portion; segments green or brownish when ex- 
posed, 5, erect or only a trifle recurved toward the distal 
ends, linear or narrowly lanceolate, the margins folded upon 
the upper side toward the apex and very finely or sparsely 
eiliate, 3-veined, the midvein stout, the 2 lateral ones fa- 
int and more or less united with the middle one by ob- 
lique cross bars, 1.25 mm wide, 5 to 6 mm long; corolla 
white and tubular, constricted toward the basal one half, 
otherwise saccate and light blue, with whitish veins and 
veinlets, 3 cm wide across the inflated portion, delicate, ca- 
ducous; lobes 5 to 8 mm long, the lower pair smaller and 
acute, the upper and lateral ones much broader and round- 
