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with leaf-scars, brown and glabrous, but minutely glandular in young 

 portion of this year. Leaves persistent, spreading, sparce, crowed at the 

 to}) of the stem, petiolate, elongato-lanceolate or lato-lanceolate, gladually 

 attenuated-acuminate with an obtuse and subcallose tip, cuneato-attenuated 

 below, depressed-subcrenato-subcrisped or subentire, with an intramarginal 

 series of small distinct acute processes on the upper surface and 

 convex spots on the under surface, flaccidly chartaceo-membranaceous, 

 or membranaceous, glabrous, deep-green above, light green and in punctate 

 beneath, 8-24 cm. long, l§-7 cm. broad, involute in vernation ; midrib 

 ruuch prominent beneath and very angustately prominent above ; veins 

 usually 4-7 on each side, ascending and often subparallel to the midrib, 

 curved inwards at base and curved outwards at apex ; veinlets incon- 

 spicuous ; petiole flatly grooved in front, glabrate but minutely glandular 

 when young, 6-13 mm. long. Inflorescence much shorter than leaves ; 

 imibels pedunculate, cernuous, shorter than peduncles, 4-12-flowered to 

 an umbel, 2i-2§ cm. across, usually simple, or sometimes compoimd witii 

 {^liort second peduncles ; pedicels proportionally stout, terete, straight or 

 shglitly curved downwards at the upper end, purpureo-rosy, very minutely 

 glandular, 5-10 mm. long, the surrounding ones erect-patent ; peduncles 

 ap]>roximate, axillary to leaves of the stem of the last year and to fallen 

 scales (which are subulate, subulato-lanceolate, subulato-linear, or spathulate, 

 8-11 mm. in length) in tlie basal portion of stem of this year, erect-patent, 

 terete, very minutely glandular, straight but curved downwards at the top, 

 2-5 cm. long ; bracts caducous, very loosely sparse on the peduncle, subulate, 

 linear to oblong-linear, or linear-spathulate, obtuse or acutish, thickish, 

 punctate and minutely glandular externally, about 5-10 mm. long, some- 

 times the superior 1 or rarely 2 developed into the leaf and attaining 

 al)0ut 9 cm. long ; Ijracteoles placed at the base of pedicels, caducous, 

 subulate to subulato-oblong, usually obtuse, concave, thick, minutely gland- 

 ular externally, punctate, greenish, 3-4^ mm. long. Flower white, in- 

 odorous, 9-10 mm. across. Calyx deeply 5-parted, spreading, but erect 

 alter flower, glabrous, shorter than the corolla ; lobes oblong or narrowly 

 oblong, obtuse, entire, 2-2^ mm. long, pale rose below and light green 

 above. Corolla deeply 5-parted, campanulato-rotate, revolute above, 

 glabrous, inpunctate, thickish, deciduous ; lobes oblong-ovate, acute, entire, 

 2^-3 mm. across, covered with minute papilloso-glandular below internally 

 under lens. Stamens erect, shorter than the corolla, inserted to the base 

 of the corolla, glabrous ; filament very short, subulate ; anther connivent, 

 deltoid-lanceolate, acute, bi-auriculate with acutish lobes at base, introrse, 



