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or deeply shaded with purpurascent tint, tufted and protected 

 by the perulc-e at the base of the leaf-tuft, quitely glabrous, 

 with a slender glabrous petiole and very angustate long stip- 

 ules ; blade at first conduplicate, obovato-elliptical, abruptly 

 caudato-acuminate, setaceo-serrate, shining ; midrib and veins 

 prominent beneath ; petiole with 2-4 minute discoidal purple 

 glands in the apical portion, canaliculated in front, viridescent 

 and often purpurascent, attaining about 3 cm. long ; stipules 

 mainly few-laciniate into augustato-linear divisions, ciliato- 

 fimbriate with spreading and unequal glandular (gland purpu- 

 rascent) teeth, viridescent or thinly shaded with purpurascent 

 hue, deciduous, attaining about 31 cm. long. Perulje (of 



flower-bud) deciduous when flower or lately after flowering, 

 imbricated ; the exterior ones small and squamiform, graduairy 

 larger above, crustaceous, smooth, badio-brown, rounded at the 

 apex, glabrous but densely puberulent with rufous hairs under 

 the apex internally, the 

 lower ones smallest and 

 semiorbiculate, the middle 

 ones broadly ovato-orbicu- 

 lar, the upper ones oval- 

 orbicular, ciliated; the in- 

 terior ones much larger 

 and herbaceous, radiately 

 spreading or recurvo- 

 spreading, viridescent, pu- 

 bescent internally, glabrous 

 and often shaded with 

 purpurascent or reddish- 

 purpurascent hue dorsally 

 or on both surf^ices, ciliato- 

 denticulated with glandular 

 erect-patent or patent teeth, 

 the lower ones oval-elliptical 

 to obovato-elliptical, round- 

 ed at the apex, the upper 

 largest, obovato-spathulate 



Fig. XI. nat. 



size. 



