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ciliiform-denticles on margin, 3-15 mm. long, viridescent and 

 shaded with purple, deciduous Inflorescence protected with 

 deciduous perulse at the base, umbellately or corj^mboso-race- 

 mosely l-4-fl()wered, bracteate and often bracteolate ; rachis 

 light green, very slightly pubescent with patent hairs, attaining 

 about 10 mm. in the longest one ; common peduncle short, 

 straight, light green, glabrous or very thinly pubescent above, 

 3-17 mm. long ; bracts herbaceous, sessile, depressed-obovate, 

 depressed-orbiculate, or orbiculate, broadly and shortly cuneate 

 towards the base, truncato-rounded or rounded at the apex, 

 glanduloso-denticulate with often purpurascent teeth, green and 

 often thinly shaded with purple, flabellately veined, and reticu- 

 lately venuled above, glabrous or very slightly pubescent at the 

 base dorsally, 4|-10 mm. long, 4-10 mm. wide, sometimes 

 the lowest one 3-lobed or flabcllato-lobed, rarely attaining 

 about 15 mm. long, 11 mm. wide ; bracteoles placed in the basal 

 portion of the pedicel, cuneato-obovate, rounded-obtuse at the 

 apex, glanduloso-denticulate ; perulse imbricated, reflexo-patent 

 in the inner ones, the lower ones small, chartaceo-crustaceous, 

 shining, glabrous, semiorbiculate to semiorbiculato-ovate, 

 obtuse, darkish-fulvous, the middle ones larger, membranaceo- 

 subcrustaceous, ovate to obovato-oblong, obtuse, ciliated, pu- 

 bescent above internally, the upper (inner) ones largest, her- 

 baceous, viridescent and often shaded with purple, attaining 

 about 12 mm. long and 5 mm. broad, spathulato-oblong, at- 

 tenuated and cuneated below, shortly 3-fid (occasionally flabel- 

 lately lobed) with obtuse or acutish lobules at the apex, glandu- 

 loso-ciliated, glabrous externally, tomentoso-pubescent with 

 light-leather-coloured hairs internally, theso of the leaf-bud often 

 more or less larger and sometimes deep— 3— fid in the interior 

 one, the middle lobe often developed into a small petiolate leaf. 

 Flower coetaneous or sometimes precocious, semi-double, or some- 

 times nearly simple, about 4cm. across, dilute-rosy but usually 

 deeper towards the upper margin of petals, lately turned to a 

 purpurascent hue in bottom of corolla ; pedicels short, erect or 

 erect-patent, narrowly terete, thinly pubescent with pale-rufes- 

 cent patent hairs, light-green and often shaded with purpuras- 



