longe acutissimeque acuminatas diviso, disco e glandulis 5 
ovatis acuminatisque composito, columna staminali elongata 
glabra apice breviter trifida, antheris 10 bi-verticillatis, 
verticillis demum distantibus antherisque irregulariter 
insertis. Flores feminet masculinis paulo maiores basim 
versus glabri, disco e squamis bilobis cum staminodiis 
alternantibus composito, ovario subglabro in stylum bre- 
vem attenuato.”’ 
Study of the material now available has enabled me 
to prepare the following extended description: 
Arbor parva vel mediocris, usque ad sexaginta pedes 
(sed saepissime minor) alta. Truncus basi valdissime in- 
crassatus, plerumque 16-18 poll. in diametro, sursum 
abrupte in truncum columnarem et gracilem fastigans, 
latice albo aquosoque. Cortex plusminusve 7 mm. cras- 
sus, comparate mollis, ab cambio facile desquamans, ex- 
trinsecus laevis, spadici-brunneo, intus albo-straminellus. 
Rami graciles, hornotino incremento cortice laevissimo 
nitido et conspicue rufo obtecto, ramulis foliiferis cum 
annulo angusto cicatricibus foliorum squamellarum. for- 
mato alternantibus. Petioli graciles, 2-6 em. (plerumque 
3-4 cm.) longi, circiter 1 mm. in diametro, teretes, cor- 
tice glabro et basin versus rubicundulo-brunneo, tenuiter 
striati, basi leviter dilatati, apice valde biglandulosi, glan- 
dulis nigrescentibus, turgidis, reniformibus confluenti- 
bus. Petioluli graciliores, 6-10 mm. (plerumque 9 mm. ) 
longi. Foliola valde reclinata rarius horizontalia (vel 
horizontali-reclinata), vivo discoloria statu adulto tenui- 
ter papyracea vel demum firme membranacea (numquam 
vivo subcoriacea), elliptica vel lanceolato-elliptica, basi 
rotundata vel satis abrupte attenuata, apice acuminata, 
emarginata, 5-16 cm. (plerumque 7-10 cm.) longa, 2—5 
cm. (plerumque 2.5-3.5 em.) lata, supra vivo atroviridia, 
subnitida, omnino glaberrima, infra pallidiora, glabra 
sed oculo armato magnopere minutissime albido-scobi- 
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