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mostl}^ 2 in number, rarely 3, or sometimes also on the 

 basal margin of the blade, small, discoid, prominent, sessile, 

 rounded or elliptical, more or less concave in the centre of the 

 the upper surface, purpureal. Stipules 2, placed on both 

 basal sides of petiole and usually shorter than it, simple, or 

 bifurcate, or deeply cut into few or several linear lacingel 

 glandular-ciliated on the margin, herbaceous, caducous, virescent 

 often shaded with purpurascent colour. Inflorescence lateral 

 on twigs of the last year, spreading, remotely or approximately 

 placed, usually corymboso-umbellate with 2-5-flowers, 

 bracteate, surrounded by deciduous bud-scales at the base ; 

 common peduncle usualh^ short, or sometimes attaining about 

 3cm. in length, terete, straight, smooth, glabrous, light-green, 

 pediceL^ straight or scarcely arcuate, erect-patent, each sub- 

 tended by a bract at the base, slenderly terete, very slightly 

 enlarged at the apex, smooth, glabrous, li-3cm. long in flower. 

 Bract small, sessile, spathulato-elliptical, or spathulato-obovate, 

 rounded at the apex, often cuneate below, usually erect-patent, 

 concave within, minutely glanduloso-ciliato-denticulate on the 

 margin, herbaceous, virescent often tinged with rose-colour, 

 glabrous externally, very thinly hair\' within, deciduous, 4-7mm. 

 long, with veins anastomosing towards the apex. Flowers 

 coetaneous, numerous, dense or lax on branchlets, about 

 2^-3cm. in diameter. Calyx glabrous, herbaceous, deciduous ; 

 tube broadly cylindrical, tuljular, somewhat enlarged above, 

 4"-6mm. long, about 2-2imm. in diameter in the middle, and 

 about 4mm. in diameter at the throat, obscurely costate 

 longitudinally, green with purpurascent colour, somewhat thickly 

 walled, staminiferous towards the throat internally ; lobes 5, 

 patent or somewhat reflexed with obtuse and open sinuses 

 between them, equal to the tube in length, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 often very minutely denticulate or ciliato-denticulate, very slight- 

 ly dilated at the base, more or less concave within, green 

 shaded with purpurascent colour, 2|-3mm. wide in the middle, 

 triplinerved accompanied by finely reticulated veinlets. Petals 

 5, inserted on the edge of the throat of calyx-tube, and alter- 

 nate to the calyx-lobes, patent very widely, white shaded with 



