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small lenticels. Bud terminal or lateral, laxly or approximately 

 or aggregately placed, imbricated with firmly coriaceous scales, 

 conical in leaf-bud, but oblong-conical in flower-bud which is 

 always lateral ; scales nearly similar both in those of flower- 

 and leaf-buds, deciduous, numerous, the lower ones smaller, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, lustrous and baj^-colourcd, the upper ones 

 gradually larger, herbaceous, greenish, with all the gradation 

 between them ; the outer, or inferior ones, ovate to broadly 

 ovate, entire, obtuse, concave within, glabrous ; the inner ones 

 ovato-elliptical to oblong-spathulate, concave, sessile, usually 

 obtuse at the apex, mostly reflexo-spreading, about l|cm. or 

 more long in the innermost largest one, the upper ones minute- 

 ly glanduloso-ciliated on the margin, pubescent-villose with 

 adpressed thin or dense hairs within, the uppermost one 

 often trifid in leaf-buds. Leaves sparse, spreading, petiolate, 

 stipulate when young, obovato-oblong, oblong, or oblong- 

 lanceolate, abruptly attenuated into a narrowly acuminate 

 apex with a sharp point, obtuse or rounded-obtuse at the 

 base, 5-locm. long, 2^— 6cm. broad, sharply serrate with ovato- 

 deltoid and more frequently duplicate teeth, which each bears 

 a minute and conical gland on their tips when young, charta- 

 ceous, glabrous, bright-green above, but usually more or less 

 glaucous beneath, at first appearing at the same time as the 

 flowers, and at that time their colour are usually of purpureal- 

 red then advancing into proper green hue, deciduous, con- 

 duplicate in venation ; midrib straight, prominent beneath, 

 naked, but sometimes ver3^ scarcel3^ pilose and frequently 

 pubescent at the axil of veins beneath ; veins erect-patent, 

 straight or very slightly arcuate upwards, about 3— 14mm. 

 apart at their bases, about 8-12 on each side, prominent 

 beneath, they before reaching the margin connected with a 

 branch of the upper next one ; veinlets running to each tooth 

 of the margin and obliquely transversed between veins, accom- 

 panied by v:ry fine and minute venules ; petiole slender, 

 li-2^cm. in length, cylindrical, narrowly canaliculate in front, 

 glabrous, smooth, light-green tinged with purpurescent colour, 

 provided with glands above on the edges of the canal ; glands 



