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whitish lenticels. Leaves alternate, 2-ranked, entire, short-peti- 

 oled, rounded and usually asymmetrical at the base, the upper- 

 most ones lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the lower ones near 

 the base of the branches usually smaller and broader, often 

 ovate and obtuse, the blades glabrous and glossy above with 

 impressed midrib, and glabrate beneath except near the base of 

 the midrib which usually bears a few scant hairs. Flowers small, 

 subglobose or broadly conical in bud; peduncles solitary sub- 

 terminal on small branchlets, 1-flowered, short and thick, bearing 

 two broad clasping bracteoles, which together with the peduncle 



Fig 2. Fruit and seeds of P. Mariannce 



itself and the outer surface of the calyx are thickly covered with 

 ferrugineous hairs; calyx 3-parted, the lobes broadly triangular; 

 outer petals valvate, thick and coriaceous, broadly ovate, acute, 

 appressed hirtellous on the outer surface, clothed with fine tomen- 

 tum within; inner petals somewhat smaller, similar in shape and 

 valvate like the outer ones, slightly clawed at the base, covered 

 with fine dense tomentum. Receptacle (torus) convex or hemi- 

 spherical, covered with fine stiff reddish hairs and bearing a 

 large number of cuneate stamens closely crowded together, their 



