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Surubs with alternate, simple lesves and smooth bark, Stipules none 
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-lowers numerous in a torninal eivegpeemed showy pyramidal panicle, Calyx 
saucereshaved, the tube necrly flat, bearing a dise within; sepals persistent, 
erect in iruite Petals whitish, spreading, short-clawed, Stamens about 20, 
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borne on the disce Pistils.5, distinct, styles filiform, stipmes 2-lobed, 
Fruit of commonly indehiscent follicles, 
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le ile discolor (Pursh) iaxim. A shrub .5-3 m, tall or higher, commonly about 
&@ Mes branches erect or ascending, usually numecrous$ mature bark grey with a 
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purvlish tinge, rougnencc by numerous lenticcls, dull; leaves light ereen, 
u-6 om, long, ovate, suocuneste or more rerely subtruncate at the base, 
H- sera day ‘- 4-1}, 4 4-44 opt rn mal sf fone = i; 1 =) wai ; 
obcuse, coaiiely soothed, vie te th commonly arsain toothed, the teeth cusnidate,] 
upper survece sporinely oubescent, the lower s-nressed-hirsute, frequently 
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silky, paler, petioles .5-1.5 cm. longs; panicles 1-2 dem, long, almost as 
broed, branches numerous, softly oubescont;) sepals and retals valvate in bud; 
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scvals ovate, »ubescent, 1,6 mm, long} metals oval, about 2 m, long, excceded 
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by tne Nuncrous svomens which are seated on a vellow dises; ovaries nilose® 
1 aries nilose$ 
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Xxedicels on mm. long, each tribracteate belo; the een li) aba sada Ceo MM, 
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long, subecual to the calyx snd more or less enclosed by it. (Sericotheca 
discolor iwdb,. ). 
Common throurhovt ovr region on dry hillsides, on rock outcrons and in 
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burns, e000-4000 feet, 4 form with very laciniete leaves wes obserfled on 
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