lf^8 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxxi 



with a surface stratum of white desquamating wax or its 

 vestiges. Foliage-leaf buds and juvenile leaves unknown. 

 Leaves petiolate as much as 13 cm. long ; lamina chartaceous 

 broadly lanceolate or somewhat oblong or oval-lanceolate, 

 occasionally oblanceolate as much as 11 '5 cm. long and 

 4 cm. broad apex abruptly acute somewhat beaked ending 

 in a horny tubercle, margin flat or slightly recurved 

 cartilaginous obscurely undulate and minutely marked 

 by the bases of fallen juvenile hairs, base obtuse ; upper 

 surface olivaceous somewhat glossy almost epunctulate 

 very glabrous, the often reddening midrib grooved, primary 

 veins about 16 pairs hardly conspicuous, elsewhere smooth 

 or obscurely reticulate (in older leaves a tendency to 

 reddening of surface about the primary veins) ; under 

 surface tawny green very glabrous with the often 

 reddening midrib and primary veins elevated the network 

 of the ultimate veins red or tawny, the whole surface 

 glossy smooth wax- varnished almost epunctulate with an 

 epapillate epidermis; petiole thick wrinkled about 1'5 cm. 

 long grooved above clad with a desquamating white stratum 

 of wax. Flowers of the inflorescence about 10, racemosely 

 umbellate the axis of inflorescence about 1"5 cm. long 

 densely tomentose with white floccose adpressed hairs ; 

 fertile bracts oblong or obovate-spathulate as much as 

 28 cm. long and 1 cm. broad membranaceous yellow-brown 

 ciliate, outside densely silky, inside near apex in the 

 middle silky ; bracteoles most delicately filiform adpressed- 

 pilose about 1 cm. long; pedicels scarcely 1 cm. long 

 brown sparsely and minutely puberulous. Calyx cupular 

 minute about l"o mm. long outside sparsely puberuldus; 

 lobes deltoid sometimes broadly semi-lunate sometimes 

 rounded most iiiinutely fimbriate. Corolla rose-coloured (?) 

 tubular -campanulate about .'i7 cm. long exceeding the 

 stainens and gynaeceum outside and inside glabrous with- 

 out blotch or spots, .5-lobed ; lobes nearly equal about 

 lo cm. long and 2 cm. broad rounded eniar'ginate or retuse 

 more or less crenulate. Stamens 10 unequal, longer about 

 8-3 cru. long shorter about 2 cm. long : anthers dark purple 



pubescente, ovario pubernlo valde diversa ; n h'h. lukiangensi, Francli. 

 foliifl l>revioribus et latioribns apice Itiuul rostratis laete nitentibus, 

 pedicelljfi cum calyce slaiiiiiiu;ii(|ue iilainenli.s ovarioque pubenili.s, 

 corollae ininoris loins subaeiiualibii.s ])nslice iiiaciilalis recedens. 



