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Suffruticulus succulentus, siccus totus rigido-coriaccus el nilens, ebaside- 

 cuinbenti radicante, 10 — 15 cent, circiter altus, diehotome raro trichotome 

 ramosus, caule ramisque tetragonis' in sicco sulcatis viridibus nitentibus 

 glabris, ramnlis summis glahris vel obsolete puberulis , internodiis in- 

 ferioribus 6 — 3, superioribus 3 — 1^ — 1 longis. Folia verticillata , pa- 

 tula et patulo-recurva , succulenta , sicca coriacea , supra concava subtus 

 convexa , utrinquc nitida , subtus punctis I'uscis sparse imprcssa glabra , 

 juniora versus basin aliquando pilis parcis obsita, supra semper glabra, 

 obsolete pellucido-punctata , interne ad dichotomias aliquando sena ma- 

 jora et longius petiolata, petiolis 8 mm. longis, i'ere 1^ cent, longa, 

 reliqua quaterna , in eodem verticillo semper plus minus inaequalia , p e- 

 tiolis 1 — 2 mm. longis antice canaliculatis postice puberulis vel plerisque 

 glabris , basi in annulum connatis sustenta , elliptica , obovato-elliptica 

 vel subrotundato-elliptica , apice rotundato vel paullisper contracto et 

 obtuse, aliquando subretuso, basi plerumque plus minus acuta, obsolete 

 trincrvia , nervis duobus lateralibus obsolctioribus , marginibus rigido- 

 extenuatis deflexis, majora Ij- cent, longa, et 1 lata, minora 11 mm. 

 louga, 6 — 8 lata. Amenta terminalia solitaria pedunculis 2 cent, 

 longis obsolete puberulis vel glabratis sustenta, iisque jjauUo breviora, 

 caetemm omnino ut in forma nilgherica infra descripta (sec. sp. cap. 

 Jul. Verreaux.) 



Planta fruticulosa 5 cent, circiter alta, e radice fibrosa ramos aliquot 

 simplices vel ramulosos emittens, suberectos, tetragonos, lacves, glabros, 

 in sicco subnitidos baud nodosos; internodia 1|^ — 1 cent, longa. Folia 

 inferiora opposita, superiora quaterna, patentia, petiolis semiteretibus 

 1 mm. circiter longis glabris sustenta vel subsessilia , ovata vel elliptica , 

 basi subcontracta , apice obtusa vel subrotundata, marginibus subrevolu- 

 ta, 1 cent, circiter longa Ael pauUo longiora, 7 — 8 mm. lata, trincr- 

 via, n. medio ad apicem pcrcurrente infra promincnte, lateralibus supra 

 medium, paullo tenuioribus, ramulose et tenuiter anastomosantibus , 

 glabra, pallida, utrinquc nitida, in sicco rigido-coriacea , pellucido- 

 pnnctulata. Amentum terminalc, pedunculo fere 2 cent, longo 

 anguloso, glabro , laevi, filiformi, recto sustentum , rectum, erectum, 

 rylindricum , obtusum , bacciferum pedunculum fere aequans , 2j mm. 

 crassum. Rhachis amenti inaturi loveis profundissimis pcrpcndiculari- 

 bus nitidis pro baccis alveolata , aveolorum marginibus setis rectis rigidis 

 alternis longis instnictis, unde totum amentum bispidum evadit. Bracteae 

 longe pedicellalae , tcnues, peltatae, pita membranacea, orbiculari, 

 laevi , glabra , margine membranaceo erosulo-fiinbriolato , decidnae. In 

 basi alveoli ad basin baccac immaturae stamen (superest), emergens, 

 filamcnto tenui, an th era rotunda, loculis duobus appositis , semilu- 

 iiari-oldongis , pallidc flavis. Ovarium foccnndatum ex alveolo parmn 

 emergens, obloiigo-cylindricum , fuscnm , lacve, nitidulum, apice pube- 

 rulum?, in stylum brevcm reclum tcrminalum. cui sligma capitellaluni 



