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or oblong-spathulate or cuneate, usually 3-fid at the apex, the 

 largest one attaining about 24 mm. long, 12 mm. wide, some- 

 times situated in the lower portion and often developed into 

 small leaves with petiole and stipules (Fig. XI.) ; those of leaf- 

 bud similar to those of the flower-bud, but the interior ones 

 often larger, broader and attaining about 30mm. long, 18mm. 

 wide in the largest one, deciduous. Inflorescence 3-9-flowered, 

 protected by peruljE at the base ; common peduncle short or 

 elongated, straight, subcompresso-terete, glabrous and virides- 

 cent as are the pedicels, J-5 cm. long ; rachis attaining about 

 3^ cm. long; pedicels 3-9, cor^'-mboso-umbellately or subcorym- 

 boso-racemosely or umbellately disposed, erect-patent, straight, 

 rather stout or slender, terete, smooth, often thinly shaded 

 with purpurascent hue above, l|-4Jcm. long ; bracts about 

 4—10, sessile, obovate, obovato-spathulate, or lato-obovate, but 

 oblong-lanceolate or obovato-cuneate with an acute or acutish 

 or obtuse apex in the inner ones, obtuse or rounded-obtuse or 

 subtruncato-rounded or truncate at the apex, cuneate or sub- 

 cuneate at the base, ciliato-denticulate with glandular teeth on 

 margin, erect-patent or subspreading, unequal in size, thin, 

 herbaceous, glabrous but usually very thinly pubescent on the 

 upper surface, viridescent but often thinly shaded with purpu- 

 rascent tint dorsally, with anastomotic veinlets above, 7-15mm. 

 long, 3-12 mm. broad ; the outer one sometimes sub-trifid or 

 rarely sub-laciniate ; sometimes in well developed ones provided 

 with bracteoles within the bract at the very base of pedicels, 

 the bracteoles opposite or solitary', smaller than bracts, spathu- 

 lato-oblanceolate or linear, others as the bract. Flowers 

 coetaneous with young leaves, often rather large, about 3-4 Jem. 

 across, white or with a very thin shade of rose, but at first 

 dilute-rosy towards the upper margin of petals, and lately pur- 

 purascent in the bottom of the corolla, odoriferous ; alabastra 

 oblong-conical, protected by calyx-lobes which are close to it. 

 Calyx glabrous, herbaceous, light green but shaded with purpu- 

 rascent tint, about 1|-2| cm. across ; tube straight, tubular, 

 somewhat enlarged above, shorter than lobes, more or less 

 nervato-striate longitudinally, shining, rugulose on surface to- 



