sometimes darker in color and with less prominent venation, the 

 midrib flat and slightly impressed on adaxial surface, the lateral 

 nerves 1115 per side, straight or somewhat sinuous, diverging 

 45°-70° from midrib, prominent on both surfaces, the veinlets 

 irregularly reticulate, sometimes obscure on upper surface. 

 PETIOl^E 3 6 (8) mm. long, 1 .5-2 mm. in diameter, covered with 

 a waxy coating when young, subteretc, adaxially canaliculate, 

 subalate at margin. FLOWERS subsessile in axillary fascicles in 

 axils of ramenta or leaves on past seasons' branchlets, with 2-5 

 flowers per node; petal lamina greenish with white margins, the 

 ligule and filaments white. BR ACTEOLES 3 per flower, triangu- 

 lar to broadly ovate, 0.5 1.2 mm. long, firmly chartaceous, api- 

 cally obtuse to acutish, minutely 1 setulose, persisting and giving 

 older branchlets a warty appearance. PEDICEL very short, 

 thick, weakly pentangular, 0.3-0.8 mm. long, 0.5 1.0 mm. in 

 diameter. CALYX subcoriaceous, 1.5-2.0 mrn. long, divided 1/2 

 to 3/4 its length, the lobes ovate to triangular-ovate, acute to 

 short acuminate at apex, 1.0 1.5 mm. long. PETAL LAMINA 

 spreading or suberect, shallowly cymbiform to concave, broadly 

 ovate in outline, apically obtuse to broadly rounded, 1 .5-2.3 mm. 

 long, 1.0 1.5 mm. wide, the claw 0.7- 1.2 mm. long, the ligule 0.8- 

 1.2 mm. long, consisting of 2 longer posterior lobes with a short 

 basal thickening between them and 2 short anterior lobes. 

 STAMINAL CUP half as long to nearly equaling the calyx, 

 0.5 1 .2 mm. long, entire at margin; anthers suborbicular, basally 

 cordate. BRACHYSTYLOUS FLOWERS: filaments 1.8 2.0 

 mm. long, the anthers 0.5 mm. long; styles free, 0.7-0.8 mm. long, 

 dcflexed somewhat after anthesis; stigma depressed-capitate, 0.3 

 mm. long. DOLICHOSTYLOUS FLOWERS: antesepalous fila- 

 ments 0.4 0.5 mm. long, the anthers slightly smaller, 0.3 0.4 

 mm. long; styles free or coherent briefly at base, erect, 2.0-2.5 

 mm. long; stigma erect, depressed-capitate, 0.3 mm. long. 

 OVARY ellipsoid-oblongoid, rounded to somewhat truncate at 

 apex, slightly longer than staminal cup, 1.3-1.5 mm. long. 

 DRUPE ellipsoid, apically obtuse to rounded, 7.5 8 mm. long, 

 3.0-4.5 mm. in diameter, dark red at maturity, the mesocarp to 

 0.5 mm. thick, the endocarp ellipsoid-fusiform, 6-sulcate, 3-locu- 



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