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more or less tufts and vestiges ot* floecose greasy hairs 

 with which we must assume the stem is at first clad. No 

 foliage buds or younger twigs have been seen. Leaves 

 petiolate as much as 19 cm. long; lamina coriaceous lance- 

 olate or oblanceolate slightly oblique as much as 17 cm. 

 long and 3'5 cm. broad somewhat shortly acuminate, midrib 

 at the tip swollen into a small horny tubercle, margin 

 cartilaginous obscurely undulate and marked by the scars 

 of fallen relatively broad-based hairs, base cuneate or 

 obtuse ; upper surface glaucous-green glossy, wax surface- 

 coating sometimes becoming mat, midrib sulcate slightly 

 reddening and lined more or less by withered remains of 

 floecose greasy hairs, primary veins about 18 pairs slightly 

 visible and sometimes vestigially floecose elsewhere the 

 surface glabrous faintly punctulate by orange-coloured 

 bases of fallen hairs ; under surface olive-bufl'-coloured 

 also somewhat glossy, the midrib raised pinkish and 

 glabrous, thfe primary veins also slightly raised, the ulti- 

 mate reticulation showing slightly raised in the dried leaf 

 tending to become purple glabrous and showing minute 

 punctulations from the red or orange bases of fallen hairs ; 

 petiole as much as 2 cm. long, not very thick slightly 

 erubescent and glabrescent but more or less clad with 

 withered whitish-grey or reddish remains of floecose 

 greasy hairs and marked by the bases of fallen ones. 

 Inflorescence racemose-umbellate about 8 flowers in the 

 truss, the rhachis slender about 2 cm. long glabrescent 

 but with a few remains of floecose greasy hairs and 

 persistent groups of them in axils of outer sterile bracts ; 

 bracts and bracteoles unknown ; pedicels stout oblique at 

 top, dark brown floecose glabrescent about 1 cm. long. 

 Calyx small about 2*5 mm. long cupular, cup glabrous 

 with 5 somewhat triangular thinnish lobes which are 

 fringed and erose the divisions often gland-tipped. Corolla 

 rose-coloured with a basal posterior blotch and crimson- 

 spotted above funnel-campanulate about 4 cm. long, ex- 

 ceeding in length androecium and gynaeceum, glabrous 

 both outside and inside, 5-lobed, the lobes rounded retuse 

 and somewhat crenulate about 2 cm. long and broad. 

 Stamens 10 unequal, longer ones about 3*4 cm. long, shorter 

 ones about 1 '4 cm. long ; anthers dark purple about 2*75 mm. 



