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covered with old bay stipules above, simple or few-ramose, with 

 a terminal tuft of several leaves. Radical leaves dense or 

 rather so, long-petiotatc, ternate ; leaflets small, broadly sub- 

 rhombeo-obovate, subemarginate (terminal tooth smaller and 

 shorter) in out- 

 line at apex, en- 

 tire and broadly 

 cuneate at base, 

 regularly sharp- 

 serrate with sub- 

 falcatel}^ ovato- 

 deltoid erect- 



patent teeth, ad- 

 pressed-pilose and 

 plicato-im pressed- 

 nervate above, 

 adpressed-vilioso- 

 pubescent with 

 sericeous hairs 

 and prominent- 

 nervate beneath 

 (hairs especially 

 denser on veins 

 and midrib), cili- 

 ated, thickl}'' 

 membranaceous, 

 very shortly peti- 

 olulate ; veins F^*^-- ^^^■ 

 several to few on each side, erect-patent, parallel, straight or 

 somewhat arcuate upwards, simple or few-branched ; terminal 

 leaflet slightly larger, 7-23 ram. long, 6-21 mm. wide; lateral 

 leaflets very oblique at base being acute on the sup-rior side and 

 rounded on the inferior, erect-patent, 6-19 mm. long, 4-16 mm. 

 wide; petiolules patently or erect-patently or refracted ly sericeo- 

 villoso-subtomentose, \-2 mm. long in the terminal leaflets, but 

 shorter in the lateral leaflets ; petiole about |-6 cm. long in 

 flower, then attaining about 9 cm. long, angustale, patently 



