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few-flowered terminal or leaf-opposed 

 cymes ; leaves beneath sparsely and 

 minutely strigose : ovules 4 

 Flowers "5 in. or more in length (see also 

 M. fnlgens). 



Flower-buds broadly pyramidal. 



Flowers racemose, rarely solitary. 

 Leaves glabrous above except the 

 midrib, beneath densely golden- 

 brown sericeous. Ripe carpels 

 ovoid-globose, 1"25 in. long, their 

 stalks 2 to 3 in. long 

 Flowers in axillary or terminal 

 panicles. Leaves minutely pubes- 

 cent above, softly brown-tomen- 

 tose beneath : ripe carpels glo- 

 bose to ovoid, velvetty-tomentose, 

 1 to 225 in. long; stalks "75 to 

 1-75 in. ... 

 Flowers always solitary and axil- 

 lary. Ripe carpels cylindric, 

 sub-tubercular, 1 to 175 in. long 

 Flower-buds narrowly pyramidal, race- 

 mose or paniculate. 



Leaves glabroiis above except the 

 midrib, beneath glaucous hoary- 

 puberulous. Ripe carpels glo- 

 bose or ovoid-globose, tubercled, 



I in. long, their stalks 1 in. 

 Leaves glabrescent or glabrous 



above, except the midrib ; beneath 

 softly rufous-pubescent. Ripe 

 carpels globular, densely and 

 minutely dark brown-tomentose, 

 •8 in. in diam. ; their stalks 

 slightly longer 

 Leaves harshly pubescent above, 

 uniformly and softly pubescent 

 beneath. Ripe carpels globose, 

 harshly and minutely pubescent, 



II in. in diam. ; stalks slender, 

 twice as long 



2. M. fulgens. 



3. M. vianuhriatum. 



4. M. latifolium. 



5. M. cylindrioum. 



6. M. hypoglaucum. 



7. M. parvijlonim. 



8. M. sphaerocarpum, 

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