bus, pedicellis longioribus, foliis subtus abundanter et 
molliter stellatis differt. —Holotypus: Meawia 8488 (US). 
Trees to 10 m.; copiously pubescent. Branchlets 
somewhat terete, distinctly scarred, abundantly to spar- 
ingly pulverulent strigose. Leaves crowded near tip of 
branchlets; blades somewhat broadly ovate, abruptly 
acuminate with acumen to 15 mm. long, obtuse to 
rounded at base, rarely oblique, serrulate along margins, 
17-28 cm. long, 9-15 cm. wide, chartaceous, in dry state 
dark dirty olive-brown above, grey-green beneath, some- 
what scabrous above but somewhat soft beneath, second- 
ary veins 16-22 pairs, tertiary veins elevated, more 
prominent than lesser venation, strigillose (trichomes 
with barbules) along veins with pustulate epidermis 
above, abundantly and softly stellate (trichomes very 
slender) along and between veins but mixed with un- 
branched multicellular trichomes along major veins with 
somewhat postulate epidermis beneath; petioles 1.5—3 
cm. long, 2-8 mm. in diameter, half-terete, densely pul- 
verulent strigillose to strigose. Inflorescences crowded 
near tip of branchlets, straight, lax and somewhat spread- 
ing, ca. 100-flowered, 18-26 cm. long, 10-17 cm. wide, 
abundantly to densely pulverulent strigose to strigillose 
(trichomes with barbules), primary peduncle 8-11 cm. 
long, bracts triangular to linear, to 6 mm. long. Flow- 
ers 20-25 mm. broad, buds to 8 mm. in diameter, pedi- 
cels 5-12 mm. long, braeteoles minute, subulate, to 2 
mm. long; sepals 5, orbicular, rarely oblong, rounded, 
rarely obtuse, 4-6 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, outer 2 
abundantly pulverulent-stellate mixed with unbranched 
multicellular trichomes (with barbules), imbricate one 
abundantly pulverulent-stellate on outer half, densely 
pulverulent-stellate on inner half, inner 2 medially abun- 
dantly pulverulent-stellate, laterally sparingly pulveru- 
lent-stellate, all abundantly to densely appressed-stellate 
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