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oval-elliptical and approximately placed in the inferior ones, on the front 

 margin unequally and coarsely sinuato-dentate with mucronate deltoid sharp 

 teeth and open deltoid sinuses, but entire on the lower margin, shortly 

 projected into a narrowly deltoid mucronate acute or obtuse tooth at the 

 apex, cuneate or cuneato-obtuse or sometimes rounded at the base, 3-12 cm. 

 long, 2-llicm. broad, sparingly disparsed with stellate hairs on both sur- 

 faces, densely pilose with whitish fasciculate hairs at the axil of the midrib 

 and veins beneath, green and concolorous, chartaceous, penninerved, the 

 midrib and veins elevated and often covered with fulvous fasciculate hairs 

 beneath ; veins 4-7 on each side, erect-patent ; main veinlets transverse 

 between veins ; petiole tomentose with fasciculate hairs (which are often 

 caducous), enlarged and entirely inclosed the bud at the base, 3-18 mm. 

 long. Raceme cernuous, simple, terminating the lateral short branchlets, 

 or rarely axillary in the upper portion of branches, secundly 3-13-flowered, 

 about 4-Gcm. long, foliiferous below (the uppermost leaf often reduced 

 in size, acuminate, cuneato-obovate) ; rachis hirsute-tomentose with stellato- 

 fasciculate drab-fulvous hairs as is the pedicel ; bracts filiform-linear, 

 tomentoso-pubescent with stellato-fasciculate hairs, 1-3 to each flower, 

 about equal to or slightly shorter than the calyx, attached to the 

 apical portion of the pedicel or sometimes to the lower portion of the 

 calyx, persistent. Flowers nutant, very shortly pedicellate, about 2|- 

 2|cm. long, 12mm. across, white, the lower few flowers axillary; pedicel 

 li-3 mm. long. Calyx campanulate, incano-tomentose with stellato-fascicu- 

 late hairs, ferrugineo-fulvous below, unequally usually 5-6-fid, 7-10 mm. 

 long ; lobes more or less recurved, deltoid or narrowly deltoid, acute, some 

 of them unequally 2 or sometimes 3-fid. Corolla much exserted, infun- 

 dibuliform, deeply 5-7-fid, valvato-imbricate in restivation, subtomeutose 

 with short stellate hairs externally ; lobes oblong, deltoid-oblong, or ovato- 

 elliptical, acute. Stamens included, 11-12, monadelphous into a short 

 tube below, 1-seriate, erect, inserted to the corolla-tube, about 11-12 mm. 

 long, thinly pubescent, white, the free portion linear-filiform ; anther 

 erect, lato-linear, muticous, introrse, adnate to the connective, with 

 parallel cells, 3-3A mm. long, yellow. Style erect, subulato-filiform, straight, 

 equal to stamens in height, pubescent below, about 16-19 mm. long; 

 stigma 3-lobed ; ovary subglobose, at the base adnate to the base of the 

 calyx-tube, tomentoso-pubescent above, thick-walled, 3-locular, about 2\ mm. 

 across ; ovules about 12 in each loculament. Fruit ovoid-globose, about 

 9-11 mm. across, accompanied by the 2-3-ripped persistent calyx below, 

 covered with closely pressed pale tomentose hairs, beaked with the basal 



