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or more or less spreading, often dividing from the base, witli 

 fine rootlets, pale. Leaves man^^ tufted, erect or erect-patent ; 

 blade (in the flowering time) narrowh^ lanceolate to ovato- 

 lanceolate, obtiuc with a subcallose tip at the apex, obtuso- 

 truncate to subcordato-truncate at the base, coarsely depressed- 

 crenatc, puberulent with short patent white hairs on both sur- 

 faces (but often subglabrous in the lower leaves), hoary-green 

 above, paler beneath, ciliated, rather flaccid, about 2— 6cm. long, 

 1— 1|^ cm. wide ; midrib prominent beneath, pale, pulvereo- 

 puberulent with short patent white hairs ; veins about 5— 9 on 

 each side, loose, erect-patent, arcuate above ; petiole usually 

 long, about 2—6 cm. long in flower, narrowW viridi-alate (the 

 alee are the decurrency from the blade) on both edges above, 

 pale-green and usually thinly purpurascent above, and pale 

 below, flatish in front, rounded dorsally, puberulent with short 

 patent white liairs; stipule longadnate, about IJ— 3jcm. long, 

 narrow, white or light purple above, thin, entire and usually 

 very loosely short-glanduloso-ciliated, the free tip subulato- 

 deltoid, subulate, or subulato-linear, acuminate, trcct, scantily 

 glanduloso-ciliated, 2-7 mm. long. Leaves after the flowering 

 time increasing the size, subdeltoid-lanceolate, obtuse at the 

 apex, cordato-auriculate and decurrent with the form of deltoid 

 above at the base, depressed-crenate, white-puberulent except 

 the lower shorter leaves (which are narrowly ovate to ovato- 

 lanceolate), attaining about 8A cm. long, 3g^ cm. broad, green 

 above, paler beneath, with about 5-9 erect-patent veins on 

 each side of the midrib ; petiole long, slender, semiterete, flatish 

 in front, broadly canaliculate b}- the very narrow green alae of 

 both sides and light green moreover puberulent above, usually 

 purpurascent towards the base. Scapes few to many, shorter 

 than or equal to or slightly exserted upon the leaves, erect, 

 slender, subangulate, very thinly purpurascent, puberulent with 

 short patent white hairs, about 3-8 cm. long ; bracts 2, below 

 the middle or in the middle, adpressed, opposite, or subopposite, 

 or sometimes alternate, angustately subulato-linear, acuminate, 

 carinate dorsally, light purple and often viridescent above, gla- 

 brous, glanduloso-ciliated on the basal margin, 4—12 mm. long. 



