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A tall tree, attaining about 12m. in height, with obliquely 

 erect branches ; trunk atropurpureo-castaneous, with stout 

 transverse old lenticels. Branches and branchlets atropurpureo- 

 castaneous, terete, dispersed with lenticels. Leaves unfolding 

 after anthesis but young ones with flowers and greenish-purple, 

 petiolate, adult one ample and green, oval, oval-elliptical, 

 elliptical, lato-ovate, or subobovato-oval, abruptlj^ caudato- 

 acuminate with a sharp point, rounded or subcordate at the 

 base, simply and subduplicately serrate with cuspidato-deltoid 

 teeth (glandular at the tip when young), glabrous, 6-14cm. 

 long. 4-8icm. wide ; midrib prominent beneath ; veins G-11 

 on each side, erect-patent, parallel, somewhat arcuate upwards; 

 petiole stout, glabrous, canaliculate in front, 2-3-glanduliferous 

 above, l|-3cm. long ; glands small, disk-form, deep-purple ; 

 stipules angustato-linear, linear, or filiform, simple or sub- 

 laciniate, acuminate, subremotelj^ gland-tipped-fimbriato-ciliated, 

 viridescent, caducous. Flower-buds lateral, sessile ; peruloe 

 deciduous, subnumerous, imbricate, concave, reflexed or not so, 

 the outer ones smaller and firml}' membranaceous, depressed- 

 ovate, rufo-ferruginous, the middle ones larger, ovato-rotundate, 

 rounded at the apex, rufo-purpurascent above, palish and 

 herbaceo-membranaceous below, the superior ones longest, 

 elliptical, rounded or sometimes trifid (but in those of leaf-bud 

 larger and often trifid, sometimes foliiferous) at the apex, 

 densely glandular-denticulate on margin, virid-purpurascent or 

 purple, thinly pilose internally, herbaceo-membranaceous, attain- 

 ing about 13mm. long. Flowers 1-3, corymboso-umbellate, 

 coetaneous, 3-4|cm. across ; common peduncle very short (or 

 long), glabrous as are pedicels, viridescent, surrounded at the 

 base by peruL-e ; pedicels erect-patent, stout, strict, terete, 

 viridescent but purpurascent above, 2-2Jcm. long ; bracts 

 obovate, oblong-obovate, or oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, 

 ciliato-denticulate, herbaceous, greenish, slightly tinged with 

 purple, glabrous externally, sparcely pilose internally, longitudi- 

 nally veined, about 6-7mm. long. Calyx glabrous, purpuras- 

 cent, deciduous ; tube tubular and gradually enlarged above, 

 attenuatedly continued to the pedicel, about Gmm. long ; seg- 



