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An evergreen dwarf sliriib ; numerously ramose, densely leafy; Llanch- 

 lets adpressed-strigose, brownish-fuscous. Leaves crowded at the top of 

 branchlets, spreading, sliortly petiolate, obovate, obovato-elliptical, or cuneato-" 

 obovate, rounded or truncato-rounded and with a mucronate point, rigid, 

 coriaceo-chartaceous, green and siibshining above, paler beneath, disparsed 

 with adpressed-pilose pale-fulvous hairs, adpressed-ciliafed, 10-27 mm. long, 

 7-17 mm. wide ; veins very loose and inconspicuous ; petiole 3-5 mm. long, 

 adpressed-pilose. r)ud-scales several, th(^ lower ones mirnUely mucronate, 



Rl 10(1 odeiid roil iiidicuiu Sweet var. Tamurai Maklno. 



(uat. size.) 



concave, firmly membranaceous, minutely ciliated, pubescent above, about 

 .l-lO mm. long, the upper ones longer and oblong to linear-filiform, mem- 

 branaceous, about attaining about 14 mm. long. Flowers about 1-2 to a 

 bud, large, about 6-8 cm. across, light lilac-rose ; pedicel terete, adpressed- 

 strigose, 10-13 mm. long. Sepals small, short, deltoid-ovate or semior- 

 bicular, ciliated with white rather long erect hairs, shorter than the ovary. 



