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subacute at the base, sharply simpli-duplicato-serrate with deltoid 

 or ovato-deltoid teeth, 2-1 or not glanduliferous on margins 

 near the base, chartaceo-membranaceous, thinly puberulent to- 

 wards the margins and on nerves above, very thinly puberulent 

 but more densely so on the midrib and veins beneath, about 

 3-8 cm. long, l|-4cm. broad; midrib slender, prominent beneath ; 

 veins delicate, about 8-13 on each side, erect-patent, slightly 

 arcuate upwards ; main veinlets transverse between veins and 

 veinlets densely anastomosing ; petiole gracile, pubescent with 

 subadpressed hairs, canaliculate in front, eglandulous, 7-14 mm. 

 long ; stipules subulato-linear or subfalcato-linear, acuminate, 

 often slightly few-laciniate, glandular-subinciso-serrate, attaining 

 about 9 mm. long, more or less shorter or longer than the 

 petioles. Flower-buds axillary on the branchlets of last year, 

 solitary or geminate, sessile ; perulse imbricated, deciduous, sub- 

 cuneately obovato-orbiculate, the interior ones about 4 mm. 

 long, herbaceo-membranaceous, pallid, minutely trifid at the 

 apex, but the exterior ones depressed-rounded, pubescent at the 

 apex, glandular-margined, coriaceo-membranaceous, bay-castane- 

 ous. Flowers precocious, 2-4-umbellato-fasciculate, bracteate, 

 about 2|-3 cm. across, light rose ; common peduncle extremely 

 short, pubescent ; pedicels hirtello-pubescent with erect-patent 

 hairs, about 5-17 mm. long ; bracts obovate to obovato-orbi- 

 culate, rounded or subtrilobate at the apex, sessile, glanduloso- 

 ciliated, greenish and purple above, concave, anastomotic-nerved, 

 puberulent at the base, deciduous, 3-6 mm. long. Calyx spar- 

 ingly^ puberulent, purpurascent ; tube tubular or oblong-tubular, 

 slightly enlarged above, somewhat globoso-tumid or not at the 

 base, shortly obtuso- or acute-attenuated to the pedicel, glabrous 

 internally, about 5 mm. long ; segments 5, patent, slightly apart 

 by obtuse sinuses, lato-ovate, or ovato-deltoid, acute, subserru- 

 late, nearly one-half as long as the tube, thin, glabrous internally, 

 about 3J mm. long. Petals 5, spreading, oval-elliptical, or 

 elliptical, emarginate, not unguiculate, delicately flabellato-veined. 

 Stamens many and about 30-34, triserial, erect, arcuate in- 

 wards, about one-third as long as the petals, unequal in length ; 

 filaments filiform, glabrous ; anther small, rotund. Style 



