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sericeo-villoso-subtomentose and hairs more dense in young 

 ones; stipules about i— IvSmm. long, scarious, entire on margin, 

 adnate below, free portion ovato-elliptical or ovato-deltoid, 

 cuspidate or setaceo- obtuse or acute at apex, adpressed-pilose 

 on the midrib dorsally and ciliated. Flowering stem including 

 the cyme somewhat cxserted or not, solitary, angustate, patently 

 villoso-subtomentose with sericeous hairs, foliiferous or aphyl- 

 lose ; cauline leaf at the base of c3^me small, with cuneato- 

 obovate leaflets, shortly petiolate, lanceolately stipulate ; bract 

 very small, simple, oblong to linear, entire and few-serrate 

 towards ihe apex, shortly petiolulate, stipulate at the base. 

 Cyme longer or shorter than the stem, one to laxly few flowered. 

 Flower white, about 9-14 mm. in diameter, long-pedicellate, 

 upward; pedicel bractless, 11-4 cm. long, gracile, patently 

 villoso-subtomento.<^e with sericeous hairs; bracteoles 5, as long 

 as the calyx-lobes, green, densely villoso-subtomentose as well 

 as the calyx dorsally, thinly adpressed-pubescent internally, 

 ciliated, cuneato-ovate, acuminate, 3-fid, rarely oblong or nar- 

 rowly oblong and entire or bifid, copiously anastomotic-venuled, 

 persistent. Calyx light green ; tube depressed, shorter than 

 the lobes, pubescent internally ; lobes 5, patent, elliptical or 

 oblong, sometimes oblong-lanceolate, entire, and cuspidate, or 

 3-fid with sharp-pointed lobules (mid-lobule larger), rarely 2-fid, 

 ciliated, pubescent above dorsally, closely and copiously anasto- 

 motic-venuled, about 5 mm. long, 2i mm. bread. Petals 5, 

 patent, distant each other, a little exceeding the calyx-lobes in 

 length, obovato-orbiculate, retuso-rounded and shortly cuspi- 

 date or emarginate at apex, broadly cuneate below and con- 

 tractedly subunguiculate at base, 4-6 mm. long, 2§-5mm. wide, 

 delicately nervate ; veins 3-5 at base then ramose, reticulated- 

 venuled above. Stamens subnumerous, not exceeding or some- 

 times scarcely so the ovary-cluster, unequal in length, glabrous, 

 attaining about 2i mm. long; filament subulate; anther ovato- 

 oval or ova to-orbicular, rounded or retuse at apex, subcordate 

 at base, flat, with a broad connective ; anther-cells linear, 

 arcuate. Ovary-cluster globose, sessile, densely carpeliferous, 

 about 4 mm. across ; gynophore ovoid-globose, thinly pubes- 



