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ternate, petioled, long, ovate-cuneate, remotely serrulate, 

 obtuse, smooth on the upper side, somewhat hairy, parti- 

 cularly the rib and veins underneath, from six to twelve 

 inches long, by three or four broad. Petioles one-sixth of 

 the length of the leaves, round, a little hairy. Stipules 

 conical, hairy. Racemes from the ax ills of the former 

 year's fallen leaves, single ; twice the length of the peti- 

 oles. Pedicels alternate, drooping, one-flowered. Brac- 

 tes lanceolate, villous, caducous, one under the insertion 

 of each pedicel. Flowers larger than in any of the other 

 species T have yet met with. Calyx five-leaved. Leaflets 

 lanceolate, downy on both sides, more than half of the 

 length of the petals. Petals five, unciform, very hairy 

 on both sides; exterior margins deeply divided into nu- 

 merous capillary segments. Filaments numerous, viz. 

 from seventy to eighty, short, inserted into the receptacle, 

 round the base of the germ, very hairy. Anthers linear, 

 much longer than the filaments, and terminated by a 

 single, long, capillary point. Germ superior, ovate, a 

 little compressed, very hairy, two-celled, with about eight 

 seeds in each, disposed in two vertical rows, and attached 

 to the partitions. Style rather longer than the stamina. 

 Stigma acute, simple. Drupe oval, smooth, of the size of a 

 small apple ; in the dry state, in which only I have seen it, 

 covered with a considerable portion of a friable substance 

 under the thin, tender, smooth cortex. Nut ovate, or 

 oval, compressed, much tubercled on each of the flat sides, 

 having an elevated sulcate ridge from the apex to the base, 

 which marks where the two valves separate, of a tough, 

 hard, ligneous texture, two-celled, though one is very often 

 abortive, two-valved ; prtr^^7^o^^s contrary. Seed genemWy 

 solitary, rather thin, long-ovate. Integuments uncertain. 

 Perisperm conform to the seed, horny. Embrjjo very 

 nearly as long and broad as the perisperm, inverse. Co- 

 tyledons thin, three-nerved. Uadicle sub-cylindric, supe- 

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