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surfaces, subflaccidly herbaceo-membranaceous, greea above, paler beneath, 

 attaining about 8 cm. long, 18 mm. wide, shorter or longer than internodes ; 

 midrib prominent beneath ; veins inconspicuous superficially, loose, ascendingly 

 erect-patent. Dichasiura subnumerous-flowered, twice to thrice divided, 

 extending about 4-9 cm. in flower, glanduloso-pubescent with patent hairs; 

 branches erect-patent, the first lateral branches attaining about 3i cm. 

 in length in flower but attaining about 7 cm., sometimes 11cm., in 

 fruit ; bracts small, subulate, acuminate or acute, but minute and ovato- 

 oblong with an obtuse apex in the superior ones, glanduloso-ciliated, herba- 

 ceous, green, the first pair larger than the rest and 4-8 mm. long but 

 occasionally foliaceous. Flower pedicellate, large, 15-19 mm. across, white; 

 pedicel 9-25 ram. long in flower but attaining about 5 cm. long in fruit. 

 Calyx erect, campanulate, minutely glanduloso-pubscent with patent hairs 

 externally, light green ; sepals 5, ovato-lanceolate and glanduloso-ciliated- 

 margined, but oblong-elliptical and hyalino-margined in the inner ones, 

 obtuse, herbaceo-membranaceous, 5^-6 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, 3-nerved, 

 the outer narves ramose from the base. Petals 5, about 2^- nearly 3-times 

 as long as the sepals, patulose above, subspathulato-oblong, angustato-cuneate- 

 ly attenuated below and loosely ciliated on margin towards the base, entire, 

 rounded or subretuso-rounded at the apex, 14-1 G mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, 

 7-nerved, thinly membranaceous between nerves; nerves parallel and elevated 

 on the inner surface, fasciculately ramose into fine veinlets above. Stamens 

 10, shorter than petals and about |-| as long as them, about 10 mm. 

 long, the oppositisepalous ones slightly longer ; filaments very shortly con- 

 nate at the base, compressed, white, the oppositisepalous ones subulato- 

 filiform glabrous and thick at the base, the oppositipetalous ones subulate 

 and thinly pilose below ; anther elliptico-oblong, or oblong, bifid at both 

 ends, pale (extremely light yellow) with same-coloured pollen, 1^-lf mm. 

 long. Ovary ovoid-oblong, glabrous, yellowish-viridescent, 2-2^ mm. long, 

 carpel thin and 10-nerved ; styles 5, erect, filiform, glabrous, white, equalling 

 the stamens in height, about 6J mm. long ; stigma obliquely internal ; ovules 

 many, erect-patent, obovoid. Capsule cylindrical, scarcely curved upwards 

 above, much exserted, 2|-3-times as long as the persistent calyx, 11-17 mm. 

 long, membranaceous, smooth, simply 10-nerved ; the mouth truncate, 10- 

 dentate ; the teeth circinato-revolute when dry, not revolute on margins, 

 elliptico-ovate or ovato-oblong, obtuse. Seeds subnumerous, about 20 or a 

 little more in number, obovoid-oval, slightly compressed, tuberculate all 

 over, bay, 1 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Tagasode-so. 



