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based hairs ; juvenile petiole densely clavate-glandular and 

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

 cliartaceous lanceolate occasionally oblanceolate narrowed 

 at the extremities as much as 11 5 cm. long 3'5 cm. broad, 

 acute at the apex and crowned by a horny tubercle, 

 margin flat cartilaginous obscurely undulate and minutely 

 roughened b}' the bases of fallen juvenile hairs, obtuse 

 or more or less broad cuneate at the base ; upper surface 

 olivaceous mat with a grooved midrib the groove contain- 

 ing a few red glands and the withered remains of branched 

 hairs, primary veins about 14 pairs slightly grooved, other- 

 wise the surface is flat very glabrous wanting apparently 

 conspicuous vestiges of juvenile flocks ; under surface tawny 

 sometimes somewhat glossy midrib elevated erubescent 

 minutely puberulous and sprinked with scattered red 

 glands or their vestiges, primary veins also raised, else- 

 where the surface is somewhat puberulous and minutely 

 punctulate, epidermis globosely papillate; petiole as much 

 as 1"5 cm. long thick grooved above and covered with 

 glands and hairs or their vestiges often glabrescent. 

 Flowers about 12 arranged in a racemose-umbel with a 

 rhachis 1*7 cm. long, the axis more or less densely covered 

 with floccose much-branched greasy red hairs; bracts 

 deciduous fertile ones obovate-oblong or oblong membranous, 

 outside densely sericeous and glandular, inside sericeous ; 

 bracteoles linear about 9 mm. long rufous with adpressed 

 hairs; pedicels about 1'5 cm. long stout sprinkled with 

 clavate glands and greasy rufous floccose hairs. Calyx 

 cupular, cup about 2 mm. long densely glandular fleshy 

 with deltoid or triangular ; lobes more or less puberulous 

 outside, margin eglandular rarely with one or two glands. 

 Corolla broadly tubular-campanulate about 4'5 cm. long 

 exceeding the androecium and gynaeceum, 7-gibbous and 

 retuse at the base, glabrous outside puberulous inside with 

 a blotch and spots on the back, 7-lobed ; lobes about r7 

 cm. loner and 2 cm. broad rounded emarmnate subcrenulate. 

 Stamens 14 unequal, the longer about 3 cm. long, shorter 

 2 cm. ; anthers dark purple 2'5 mm. long ; filaments rose- 

 coloured abundantly pubescent from the very base often to 

 the middle. Disk most minutely puberulous. Gynaeceum 

 about 3'5 cm. long ; ovarv 6 mm. long conoid blackening 



