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branched short hairs and also clavately glandular witli red 

 or orange glands ; older branches marked with the remains 

 of these. Scale-leaves on the outside of the elongated 

 ovoid somewhat viscid buds broadly ovate or somewhat 

 rounded crustaceously coriaceous brown about 6 mm. long 

 without a dorsal keel and not mucronate, more or less 

 rufously glandular on the back, on the inner surface lined 

 by greasy hairs,, obscurely ciliate ; inner scale-leaves 

 membranaceous spathulate about 3 cm. long 7 mm. broad 

 chestnut-brown puberulous on the back and clad with 

 glands, more or less puberulous within and towards the 

 apex sericeous, the acutish summit being ciliate with 

 greasy hairs ; juvenile leaves re volute upper surface densely 

 clad with many-branched floccose hairs and a few clavate 

 glands, under side covered with clavate glands and a smaller 

 number of shortly branched hairs, margin girt by broad- 



uiiilulata et pedilnis pilonun juveuiliuni delapsoruni minute subasperata 

 basi obtuse vel plus iiiiuusve late cuneata supra olivacea opaca costa media 

 sulcata sulco glandulis paucis rubris et pilis laniosis marcidis notato venis 

 primariis utiinsecus circ. 14 paullo suk-alis caeteroquin plana glaberrima 

 floccorum juvenilium vestigiorum iiiopia iiotata subtus fulva nunc sub- 

 nitenscosta media elevata leviter erubescente minute puberula et glandulis 

 rubris panels vel eaium vestigiis conspersa venis primariis etiam elevatis 

 caeteroquin subpu])erula et glandularum juvenilium pedibus minute 

 punctulata epidermide globoso-papillata ; petiolus ad 1-5 cm. longus 

 crassus supra sulcatus glandulis pilisque et earum vestigiis plus minusve 

 obtectus saepe glabrescens. Flores circ. 12 in inlioresceTitiam racemoso- 

 umbellatam dispositi rhachi ad T? cm. longa pilis lloccosis multo ramosis 

 sebaceis rubris plus minusve dense vestita ; bracteae deciduae fertiles 

 obovato-oblongae membranaceae extus dense sericeae et glandulosae intus 

 sericeae ; bracteolae lineares circ. 9 mm. lougae rufae adpresso-pilosae ; 

 pedicelli ad I'b cm. longi validi glandulis clavatis et pilis seV)aceis rufis 

 rtoccosis conspersi. Calyx cupularis cupula dense glandulosa circ. 2 mm. 

 longus carnosulus, lobis deltoideis vel triangularibus extus plus minusve 

 puberulis niargine eglaudulosis rarissime glandulis paucis notatis. 

 Corolla late tubuloso-campanulata circ. 4-r> cm. longa genitalia superans 

 basi 7-gibbosa retusa exlus glabra intus puberula postice variculata et 

 maculata 7-lobata, lobis circ. 1"7 cm. longis circ. 2 cm. iatis rotundatis 

 emarginatis subcrenulatis. Stamina 14 inaecpialia longiora circ. 3 cm. 

 longa l^reviora circ. 2 cm. longa, antheris atro-purpureis circ. 2"5 mm. 

 longis, filamentis roseis a basi inia saepe ad medium copiose pubescentibus. 

 Discus miniitissime puherulus. Gynaeceum circ.3'5 cm. longum; ovarium 

 6 mm. longum conoideum nigrescens sulcatum glabrum sed rarissime 

 glandulis singulis paucissimis nunc Hoccis sebaceis plus minusve con- 

 spersuni ; stylus t'laber stamina superans in stigma lobulatuni hand 

 discoideum paidlo clavalim ani])liatus. 



Speci<-s Kk. Unthosphaero, DieJs similis sed calycis cupula glandulo.-a 

 lobis que j)nberulis, corolla 7-lobata, staminibus 14, filamentis ad medium 

 cojuose ])ubescentibus, disco minutissime puberulo, ovario glabro bene 

 distincta. 



