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glands ; branches a year old, pale green glabrescent marked 

 more or less by the vestiges of juvenile hairs (or glands ?). 

 Innermost scale-leaves of the foliage-buds membranaceous 

 yellow-brown ligulate spathulate about 2'5 cm. long by 

 4 mm. broad viscid clad outside more or less with clavate 

 glands, inside with floccose greasy hairs and a hair crest 

 at the acuminate apex ; juvenile leaves revolute upper 

 surface tomentose with much-branched floccose hairs, 

 under surface clad with very many shortly-stalked hairs 

 abundantl}'- and radiatingly branched, the branches spread- 

 ing out laterally and becoming loosely interwoven ; juvenile 

 petiole tomentose. Leaves petiolate as much as 14 cm. 

 long ; lamina coriaceous somewhat thick truly oblong, 

 occasionally slightl}^ wider above the middle, about 12 cm. 

 long by 4 cm. broad not attenuated at the apex but obtuse 

 terminated by a horny mucro, margin somewhat flat 

 cartilaginous obscurely undulate and showing the bases 

 of juvenile hairs or even a few hairs themselves, base 

 broadly obtuse ; upper surface mat olivaceous smooth with 

 a grooved midrib primaiy veins about 15 pairs hidden 

 the whole surface glabrescent but occasionally obscurely 

 marked by the vestiges of juvenile hairs; under surface 

 tawny olivaceous most minutely red-punctulate, midrib 



umbellati rhaclii ad 2 cm. longa glandulis et pilis sebaceis induta ; bracteae 

 fertiles circ. 3 cm. longae circ. TS cm. latae submembraiiaceae oblongo- 

 obovatae vel obovato-spathulatae apiculatae intus extiisque albido-sericeae 

 glandulis panels intermixtis ; bracteolae lineares ramentaceae adpresso- 

 pilosae circ. 1 cm. longae ; pedicelli circ. 1"2 cm. longi fusco-brunnei dense 

 clavato-glandulosi. Calyx parvus circ. 3 mm. longus cupularis extus 

 dense glandulosus, lobis 7 distinctis rotundatis vel ovatis vel deltoideis 

 glandulosis et glanduloso-fimbriatis. Corolla rosea postice emaculata 

 sed varo basaliiuagno kermesino praedita tubuloso-cam])anulata magna 

 circ. 5 cm. longa gynaeceum et stamina suj^erans extus glabra eglandulosa 

 intus copiose puberula, lobis 5-7 rotundatis emarginatis subcrenulatis circ. 

 ad 2 cm. longis ad 2-4 cm. latis. Stamina 10-1 2 inaequalia longiora circ. 

 3"8 cm. longa breviora circ. 2*7 cm. longa antheris brunneis circ. 4 nim. 

 longis, filamentis deorsum latLoribus a basi ad apicem ovarii pubescentibus. 

 Discus sebaceo-floccosus. Gynaeceum circ. 4'5 cm. longum ; ovarium 

 cylindrico-conoideum sulcatum circ. 6 nmi. longum circ. 3"5 mm. diam. 

 nigrescens clavato-glandulosum ad basim nunc pilis sebaceis paucis in- 

 dutum; stylus crassus ex toto glandulosus ; stigma magnum latum dis- 

 coideum lobulatum. 



Species ex affinitate Rh. anthosphae7-i, Diels sed foliis oblongis 

 ad extremitates hand attenuatis, subtus indumento indutis, corolla 

 emaculata 5-7-lobata, staminum filamentis ad basim pubescentibus hand 

 brevissime puberulis, disco floccoso, ovario clavato-glanduloso, stylo 

 glanduloso, stigmate lato discoideo facile distinguenda. 



