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glandular with red glands or punctulate with gland- 

 vestiges. Foliage buds unknown. Leaves petiolate as 

 much as 14 cm. long ; lamina rigid coriaceous thickish 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate as much as 11 '5 cm. long- 

 by 3 cm. broad slightly attenuated towards the apex and 

 somewhat acute terminated by a small horny tubercle, 

 margin cartilaginous slightly undulate and somewhat 

 roughened by the cicatrices of fallen appendages, base 

 narrowly or broadly obtuse often unequal ; upper surface 

 at first olivaceous or sometimes glaucous green frequently 

 becoming reddish-brown mat smooth not rugulose, midrib 

 grooved primary veins about 16 pairs scarcely distinct, 

 whole surface glabrescent but obscureh' punctulate with 

 the bases of glands (or hairs ?) which have fallen ; under 

 surface cinnamon-coloured with the midrib and primary 

 veins raised somewhat straw-coloured or somewhat redden- 

 ing, network of the veinlets dark red immersed surface 

 everywhere punctulate with the red bases of glands (or 

 hairs ?) which have fallen ; petiole about 2'5 cm. long thick 

 grooved above glabrescent but marked by the cicatrices of 

 glands. Flowers about 12 in a raceme-umbel the axis of 

 inflorescence covered with red glands and perhaps with 

 greas}^ floccose hairs ; fertile bracts oblong wedge-shaped 

 somewhat truncate and apiculate about 3 cm. long by 

 14 cm. broad submembranaceous brownish, outside 

 sericeous and red-glandular at the fimbriate apex, margin 



losis glandulis breviter stipitatis margine nunc gland uloso-ciliatis. 

 Corolla alba vel leviter roseo-suffnsa intundilmliformi-canipanulata 

 circ. 4'5 cm. longa extus eglandulosa epilosa intus copiose puberula 

 postice evariculata maculis panels notata 5-lobata, lobis ellipticis vel 

 rotundatis nunc eniarginatis subcrenulatis circ. 1 "8 cm. longis circ. 2"5 cm. 

 latis. Stamina 10 inaequalia longiora circ. 3'5 cm. longa breviora circ. 

 2'5 cm. autheris purpureis circ. 3-5 mm. longis, filamentis aurantiacis 

 basi paullo expansis ab ima basi ad medium vel ultro saepe fere ad 

 apicem tenuiter pubescentilnis et rubro- vel aurantiaco-glandulosis. Dis- 

 cus pilis albis pubescens. Gynaeceum circ. 4'3 cm. longum ; ovarium 

 conoideum sulcatum circ. 6 mm. longum fulvo-olivaceum vel nigricans 

 glandulis rubris brevistipitatis ex toto obtectum et pilis sebaceis floc- 

 cosis rubris (ramnlis acuiissimis) in dimidio infero nunc fere ex toto 

 praeditum ; stjdus gracilis ex toto rubro-glandulosus sub stigmata 

 spongioso subdiscoideo leviter ampliatus. 



Species Eh. irrorato, Franch. affinis, pedicello brevi hand 1 cm. longo, 

 calyce extus pulierulo, corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata extus 

 eglandulosa, staminum filamentis ad medium vel ultro tenuiter puber- 

 ulis et glandulosis, disco pubescente, ovario partim floccoso, stigmate 

 subdiscoideo diversa. 



